Thread: Really need some help - feeling like I don't know how to improve from now on

My best advice to you is to focus on your awareness. I don't know how it worked I just know that it did... So sorry for not being able to describe why

Reality checks is an important thing, but I don't really need to look on my hands or pinch my nose in order to realize that I am lucid, I somehow just remember the feeling of my awareness in a dream.
When I started I didn't remember a single dream... Then I started to focus on my dreams and suddenly remembered a fragment perhaps that it was about me in a school or what ever.
Then I remembered one whole dream and eventually started doing this routine which made me remember even more dreams! (Although not whole dreams but more scenarios in detail)
http://www.dreamviews.com/f15/if-you...ams-try-93005/

When I remembered that many dream scenarios the next step was to not having to recall the dreams anymore, instead you already remember them becuase you experienced it and not because you recall them, if that makes sense.

Then I started to feel like I was awake but another person so I was sort of half schizophrenic and I controled my actions although I didn't knew I was dreaming.

Eventually this awareness was enough to suddenly think "What am I doing? Oh I am dreaming".

So use your dream recall as a meassurement of awareness. More vivid dreams and better recall indicated that you are close to actually become lucid.
Don't aim for the lucid dream aim for general awareness in your dreams, everything become so much more simple.

This is how the steps looked for me, perhaps your steps will look different.

I read a thread that suggested that memory practice increase the chance to lucid dream, so I guess that's one theory behind this, although I like to refer to it as awareness. Also look in my Dream Journal for Reece Jones Five Layer of Lucidity which makes you meassure your lucidity easier as well.

Good luck