Being sure

[majeric]

Hello everyone, My name is Žan, and I'm new on this forums. First of all I don't want to pop out like a guy who is asking how to do LD and ask some questions, which of were answered already in xy threads. I've read everything there is on forums about LD, and just want to share my experience with you. Hopefully someone who is experienced will let me know if its right. First of I'm 99% sure LD occurred to me before, since from my head I can tell 2 or 3 dreams week, week and a half ago, very detailed. How I came across these forums? Googled "How can I dream of someone who I never met". Somehow came across LD(which I heard of before) forums and now I'm totally into it. In fact I'm so psyched I couldn't even go to sleep yesterday (I was up to 5 in the morning, then finally fall asleep). So I decided to go with DILD for start. During the day whenever thought of it, I stopped and did following: ask myself if I'm dreaming, imagining that when I walk around the corner there is going to be something unrealistic (like a dragon for example), looked at my palms noticed details like a 2 blisters which are there and a little wound and of course count fingers. I went for default mantra (couldn't think of anything else for now) "Next time I'm dreaming, I look at my hands and realize I'm dreaming.", in my native language (?). All of this were done around 10 or 11 times during a day. So around 1AM I'm going to bed, not really feeling asleep (could be because of coffe?), read some more threads, and thinking about what could I expect and what is the purpose. This time I wanted to see my crush in anyway, nothing else really mattered, even took a look at some of her pictures and talk to her. I was also getting ready IF become lucid, wont freak out, stay calm and do dream stabilization. And of course with my eyes closed repeating mantra. I must say, had a hard time falling asleep for the first time, I was so excited about, what will happen to me. Then I slept for like a hour (which i realize is not enough and I was angry), then I stayed awake till 5AM (watching hockey). I do realize over thinking and thinking too much could be the problem first time I couldn't fall asleep. Then with help of little music, completely relaxing and actually forgetting about LDs for today I slept from 5AM to 1PM. Well nothing happened I think also because of exhaustion (was really exhausted in the morning already), didn't had any dreams that I would be aware of. I know LD doesn't just happen in one night, that it takes time, just want to be sure if this is the right direction I'm going? How coffee affects dreaming? Stupid question but, should I translate verbal commands to my native language ? Is it really possible to force LDs later? :O Can I use musi to fall asleep? Thank you for comments. I'm really glad I found this forum. I read these dreams can be quite awesome