Hi Clairvoyance,

to begin, this method does happen very shortly after I lie down. So far it has worked three times, and every time I am only doing the double affirmation for no more than five minutes. Unfortunately I don't have a lot more time than that to dedicate to lucid dreaming, and sleep is too valuable to me.

Second, yes, I do repeat the "I am dreaming" affirmation in my own voice.

Third, I do not think I see the dream form. I know that the dream forms as a result of my visualizations, however, I must black out because it seems that all of a sudden I find myself in a dream, and am saying to myself "I am dreaming". I do a reality check (which I have been doing throughout waking life fairly regularly), and there it is. A lucid dream.

I'm not entirely sure, but it seems that as I watch the words form in my mind, my eyes move around to try and read the words that are forming, which "tricks" my body into entering REM sleep. I think this might be happening, but again, without another party to observe, can not be sure. However, this is what my intuition tells me is partly occurring.

I should mention that this morning I tried this method to no avail, however, throughout the night I tried several DEILDs which are very effective in my experience and those did not work either.