found dream sign

Okay for the past week I have 4-5 dreams about the ocean/sea but I never really went in the water I was always by the shore admiring the view. I looked up dream meanings of the ocean and I guess swimming in the ocean means you have good awareness and easy access to your subconscious. So if I was able to use my dream sign (the ocean) and start swimming around I may realize I am dreaming because I can breath in water. Only if I can get myself to jump in. Hmmm I may be close to my firstlucid dream XD

Try this instead. To use it as a dream sign, simply repeat to yourself (in your head) "seeing the ocean probably means I am dreaming, the next time I see the ocean I will do an RC."

What sivason said. Don't count on your dream-self to recognise that breathing under water is weird unless you've trained yourself to, because the amount of weird things that you don't notice is so high already :P Train yourself using mantras as above and it should help a lot more.