Thread: Is this normal for a RC?

I'm fairly new to LD, and since December I've had only a hand full of anything close to LDing. Typically this has been because I haven't had a full night's sleep in a while. Last night I was very determined to do it, and I had as much time as I needed.

So I heard that a good RC is to pinch your nose, and if you can breath then you are dreaming. Is this correct, the "nose" trick that I keep reading about? I assumed it was as simple as that. But in my dream when I did it I couldn't breath, and then after a few seconds of pinching I realized that I was indeed breathing, andt that I really had no control of my breathing. It seemed to be regulated by how my actual self (my asleep self) was breathing. Is this accurate? Or is it just a strange dream event?

After a while of LDing I had a false awakening. I had another dream later in the night and did the same RC, and the exact same pattern happened, I couldn't breath, then I felt my sleeping self breathing.

So is that what's it's supposed to be like?