Very interesting ill be sure to start trying this out thanks
I find this a great article since no method is working for me. I started doing RC’s 1 week ago and i’m doing them already without telling myself to do one. I just randomly get the urge to do a RC. The question how ever doesn’t work for me since i remember almost everything of the whole day. Thank you for the article 
I like this! A simple question: what was I just doing? Ive done a similar question before: what was i just thinking about? Combined, this might just work out without having to wake up in the mid of the night! damn 1500 lucid dreams per year? thats like 4 lucid dreams per night! Does she never have normal dreams?
This question and a dream journal when I wake up in the morning or night is hopefully what will work for me.
Fantastic thread! Thanks for the tips. c:
I really enjoyed this article and I’ll certainly be trying out these excellent tips. Thanks!
Hi Everyone,
Thanks for the interesting comments and observations about this technique of Developing a Lucid Mindset. 
Obviously, it is not for everyone – but some people will discover that it works for them when practiced thoughtfully.
their frequent lucid dreaming could be traced back to persistent childhood nightmares where they learned how to achieve lucidity to deal with nightmare scenarios. In other cases, their frequent lucid dreaming seemed connected to certain waking mental habits.
He is dead on…
Fantastic post, I’m in the middle of trying to achieve this.
I’d be curious to hear if any of the earlier posters on this thread had any luck forming their “Lucid Mindset”?
Amazing stuff Robert! I have only recently begun to ask myself the same question, why do some people seem to naturally become lucid in their dreams?
This seems to be a more than fitting answer and I have been doing my best to adopt this mindset. To over analyze my entire day, throughout my entire day. It also seems to have a positive effect on my short and long term memory as well as my dream recall. Since I have been trying this I find myself not just going through my day but really experiencing each moment so that I have more information to go over when I do ask the question, What was I just doing?
Wishing all you dreamers out there the best of luck in your endeavours 
So the key is THE CRITICAL QUESTION.
I get the feeling that, “What was I just doing?” wouldn’t work for me. But I do like Wyvern’s
“Is this realistic? Why? What was I doing before to get to this point?”
since it brings the thought of a possible dream to mind first instead of the tedious review of the last hour.
Indeed, I thing THE critical question is different from a people to another, each of us has to find the one that corresponds to his personality.
As far as I’m concerned I feel frustrated because on the four LD I had (I wish I had more ! 
) i jus’t don’t know with three of them how I became lucid ! For two, I was in a corridor I didn’t know and it came to my mind that I was lucid, and another one I was in my job, during a meeting, and then I just realized, without knowing why, that it was a dream (how wonderfull was this one, I jumped on the table and shouted what I thought about my colleagues 
)
And I said in a previous post, in the last LD, I did my RC and it didn’t work ! I realized then because the room in which I was had another wall.
To me, I think I have to be aware of the place I am and the people I am with.
Thank you for this very intersting article.
many thanks from germany
Such an awesome post, thanks it was a good read
Hello!
This is my first time here and i just want to say that I’m very happy to be here and to share my opinion.
Thanks!
If I remember correctly, Tholey’s Combined Technique, at least as it was presented in his “Techniques for Inducing and Manipulating Lucid Dreams” in Perceptual and Motor Skills, also encouraged attempts to recall what had occurred previous to the moment of asking the critical question.
Tholey’s Combined Technique is still a favorite of mine, as it encourages an attitude critical-reflection in waking life as well in one’s dreams.
this makes a lot of sense. research neurodiversity, “schizophrenia” doesn’t have to be a bad thing 
It can be really fun intense and deep and make you feel very connected to a different reality
Tibetan Dream Yoga essentially? Never lose a high consciousness level?
I got to remember this
There saved!
This approach, well termed here as ‘lucid mindset’’ and pioneered by Paul Tholey, seems to be the best way to consistently have lucid dreams thought it is not necessarily the easiest or quickest means to get your first lucid.
Also, the term critical question comes from Tholey’s writing on the technique.