Lucidipedia: Meditation / Awareness

This is one of two old videos that really helped me understand the right mindset for lucid dreaming. (The other one)

I've recently started understanding more and more how important this is for lucid dreaming. I'm sure I'm not the only one to live 95% of my life in auto-pilot. How can we expect to suddenly become aware during a dream when we're not even aware during our waking life?