OK so I'm lying in my bed, trying not to think about the world around me but I am always aware that I'm lying in my bed. I have not moved a muscle for like a whole hour before and not entered SP or had HH.

I have read lots of the guides and stuff but no-one says how you know when you start having these HH. What I mean is when does it go from me looking at the back of my eyelids to seeing/hearing/feeling stuff? And when do you open your eyes to look at them or your dream? Or do you go from looking at the back of your eyes to seeing things without being aware of opening them?

Please help a LD newbie I really want to have a LD and have had no luck so far. My dream recall is generally very good e.g. last night I wrote down 5 different dreams I had (or 5 different scenarios in a couple of dreams).