Hi everyone. I'm 18 and just registered, after lurking for nearly a year. I got interested in lucid dreaming after Avatar last year (as the name implies), with the whole concept of dream walking and Pandora just being an awesome looking place to visit in a dream. Then Inception came out, and that just helped all the more. So far I managed to have about...7 (?) lucid dreams, none of real significance (doing everyday things, realizing it's a dream, then doing something cool like flying before waking up). Then I fell out of it a couple months ago, and am now getting serious about lucid dreaming again. Now, along with Pandora, I wanna take a trip to the Mojave Wasteland, and I have the goal of eventually making those trips.

Now my question...how can I overcome self doubt while performing reality checks and self affirmation? When I am doing my reality checks, I keep having a little voice in the back of my head going, "you know you're awake, why do this?", or when I am doing my self affirmations before bed, that little voice is going, "there's no way this'll work." Of course these are big impediments. Any ideas?

TM