Thread: hello from yet another newbie :-)

A big part of lucid dreaming is in establishing a habit of sorts. It helped me a lot to try to visualize a dream scene, and by the time you're actually visualizing you're not really moving your eyes. Slight eye movement doesn't really matter, but if you keep stressing about it, it will be a problem. You just need to steer your attention away from the fact that you are in fact moving your eyes.

I've always had restless feet, and twitching and tingling in my feet has both, kept me from falling asleep completely (= not being able to dream until I rolled over to another position) and kept me focused on something other than my eyes.

I think you just need to form a habit (even if it does not work at first, it's a skill you can learn in the end) and try to keep your thoughts away from your eyes. I think you might be stressing too much that your eyes do move, and it's not really the fact that your eyes move that keep you from lucid dreaming, but the stress. It took me a while to learn not to stress about moving my eyes or my feet and everything else, but you'll get there surely. Patience is key, just chill