Background: I just found this site yesterday, I read a ton of information on this site...thanks!! I started a dream journal last night and had pretty good success recalling 4 dreams some longer than others and some just quick fragments.

Here is my question for you all pertaining to RCs. I read on the RC tutorial that when you ask yourself during waking life "am I dreaming" not to acknowledge that you are not dreaming. I have been using the two fingers pushed into my hand and just looking at my surroundings and thinking does everything look normal for RCs. But when I ask "am I dreaming" it almost seems instinctive to answer no. Has anybody else had this and can you suggest how to not answer myself.

On the plus side, during one of my fragment dreams, I was trying to put two fingers into my palm. In the dream it was more like I was putting one hand into the other and it was going through the other hand, it was all kind of fuzzy and not clear. However, I did not recognize that it was a dream and the dream collapsed pretty quickly.