Thread: Feel i am close to mastering technique. Need your help!

Last night instead of using the technique i normally use i thought i would try a different one which i thought would work well for me. I woke up in a rem interval, closed m eyes and stared into the blackness. My aim was to become alert as i am falling asleep, so hypnagogic imagery starts and i just observe the colours, images scenes etc the same as i normally do but this time i am constantly check my awareness. After a short while i am on this bus and i suddenly become aware, then i am back into staring into the black but i can see a dream scene in black and white and i can feel myself getting closer to it and there is a very powerful sensation running through my body. I follow this until the sensation disappears (at this point i think i am now dreaming) so i check if i am dreaming but i am not.

I tryed this again and i am in this park close to my old house and i become aware again, the sensation runs through my body, then i can see the black and white dream scene behind my eye lids so i follow it again but nothing happens. I try to visualise a scene, forcing entry to the scene but nothing worked, it was so frustrating because i could see the scene (it was a bedroom) but i couldn't enter.

Does anyone know what the next step is? This technique is similar to (HHIT) i just realised.

Also while i am doing this technique i keep repeating "i am dreaming" over and over.