advice for OBE methods from dreaming?

[Tongo]

I have tried other methods in awake state without success so I want to try and change my tactic a bit. I think attempting from a dream or lucid dream may be an avenue worth trying but its pretty difficult as it seems most of my dreams do not have a level of clarity I can actually work with. I think most people would agree that you only really know when you have been dreaming when you wake up after but during the actual dream state you are very much not 'not there' and just asleep with something like a 1% or less degree of awareness or consciousness which is impossible to work with. I can have lucid dreams but even then they are not brilliant but the awareness is improved slightly but its really nothing you can actually do much with at all.

There is methods I have read where you repeat to yourself for the whole day every few mins or so 'awareness now' so you become so used to saying it that out of habit you end up saying it in your dream without even realizing or being aware of doing so and this hopefully or in theroy will increase the level of awareness in a dream/lucid dream and you are meant to repeat it until it gets better each time.

Is the above method anything anyone here has tried? I am hoping there might be some promise here as long as you have the 'awareness now' drummed into your head long enough. This work work better on a weekend as you would have less things on your mind such as work and other commitments.

[Xanth]

Just so you're clear, all you're trying to do in order to OBE/Project/Phase/whatever from dreaming... is increase your awareness during your experience to the point where, at the very least, you know you're dreaming.

In order to experience a dream, you have to have a base (minimum) level of awareness already.  You're correct in saying that when you have this base level of awareness the only time you know you're dreaming is when you've awoken thus your waking awareness has come to and you realize you have a memory of the dream.  What you want is that waking awareness (or close to it) but have it WHILE you're dreaming.

There are a few ways of doing this, but what you're talking about a hybrid reality check with a mantra, which is okay, but I'd pick one or the other so you don't confuse yourself. 
The Reality Check is designed so that you program yourself to do this one thing so that when it eventually transfers over to doing it while sleeping your realize this and it triggers your waking awareness.

Give this a read:  http://www.unlimitedboundaries.ca/2012/02/13/how-to-increase-your-chances-of-having-lucid-awareness-experiences-lucid-dreams/