@futurebird Just my anecdotal experience; In my teens I was reading about lucid dreaming and tried some of the exercises that supposedly was going to activate that. Well, not much changed except for one thing. Suddenly I could break out of nightmares, when I start having one, I kind of switch a button and bail-out of sleeping. Extremely convenient. So I'm not sure if I'm aware-aware about it, but something in my subconscious seems to be at least.