"I am Dreaming?" Prelude into my Lucid Dreaming and your first maneuver in fighting for awareness by Kevin Wikse.
Awareness is the phenomenon and key which ignites the art of Lucid Dreaming. To become lucid is to gain spatial awareness and the ability to orient yourself to your present situation and circumstance. At face value, gaining lucidity might be of little concern to you. Likely you know where you live and can effectively navigate around your town. However, the type of awareness I will speak about goes beyond base autonomic living and, once applied (applied even once), irreparably shatters the illusory day-to-day trance the majority of humanity, especially Americans, clumsily sleepwalk through. Achieving lucidity while dreaming is akin to being teleported from back seat passenger to driver. An often jarring transition. The dream is no longer happening around you. Now you are happening to the dream. This particular type of psychological transition can be startling and upsetting for many. If it was possible to ask you while you are dreaming, "Are you awake, are you aware?" You migh