my thrird night was a restless one...or was it?

Last night was my third night since I started posting here and attempt to become lucid in my dreams. The frist two night i could recall my dreams very well and feel ive made real process in recall. Last night i was up till 5 in the morning trying all different methods to relax and fall asleep. By the time I started to have actuall dreams it had seemed like it had been a lot longer than 5 hours(I went to bed at 12). All night iI was doing my reality checks, trying to relax and telling my self that im going to have a lucid dream. When i woke up this morning I knew I had two dreams(that wernt lucid). But I look back at when I was doing my reality checks when i was trying to fall asleep, I realize now that I wasnt! One reality check I do is try to put my hand through a wall. I have posters all over my wall, when i was doing it last night i know that the wall i was touching was white. So even though my hand didnt go through the wall my posters were missing. Antother one was that my roomate's computer screen kept turning on (my roomate was not there last night) , when i checked it in the morning the chords were unplugged. So i had two constant dream signs last but did not realize it was in a dream.

So I had a very long first person dream that i was trying to fall asleep to have a lucid dream, it seemed like it lasted ten hours and i did not leave my bed once. Is this normal for a beginner?

Thrash,

I've done that before when I thought I was just lying in bed, but then realized that things weren't quite right, and that I must have been dozing off. But I just didn't remember the "falling asleep" and "waking up" part.

And about the not recognizing the dream signs....don't get frustrated. I had a certain dream sign I was really watching out for. And even after I was consciously watching for it, I had two dreams with it in and I just accepted it as reality in the dream and didn't go lucid.

But the third time was magic for me. I finally recognized it for what it was, and it triggered lucidity. But it was only after I decided not to worry about trying go lucid. I let myself relax......then it happened. I'm new. It took almost a month.

Christine

He has a good point. You will have a lower chance if you are really worked up about it. Stay focused, and concentrate. Keep checking, but don't get worked up over going lucid. Sometimes the excitement can keep you from obtaining the right kind of relaxed state that is needed to go truely lucid.

Also, it is hard to find a sign that works 100% of the time, because when it comes down to it, your dreams can simulate anything. Maybe you haven't gained the control needed to put your hand through the wall. Even pinching yourself doesn't work most of the time that I have tried it. I still feel the pain many times.
Eventually, you may be able to tell just by the way things look, or feel, or the way your head feels. I can. I don't have any signs, and I don't do reality checks. I'm a terrible example, though. Even the fact that I am able to fly around and move objects with my mind doesn't tip me off alot of times, because I've gotten so comfortable with doing these things, that I forget that there is a world where I cannot do them.

Next time you 'try' to put your hand through the wall.
Don't 'TRY'. Just DO it. Put your hand through the wall. Don't even think about it. If you 'try' that leaves the possibility that it MIGHT not happen. However, if you believe, with everything in you, that it will just happen, and that it's no big deal... If you believe that putting your hand through the wall is normal, and there's nothing to it, I promise it will happen for you. Just let it happen. Remember, the world around you is CONTROLLED by your brain. Take control.

You can also try reading. That always messes with my head in a dream, because I can read the text, but I cannot see it. This might tip you off, who knows.

Also, imagine something strange happening. When you imagine something happening in real life, nothing happens, of course, because the physical world is not controlled by your conscious. But when you imagine something in a dream, the effects can be very different. It can have a very powerful impact.
Sometimes, when I'm escaping a horrible... thing, or exploring new heights, and it seems like I just cannot fly any further into the sky, like I can't get higher, I just IMAGINE that I am climbing higher, and it almost always works.
Don't do this too much, however, because it seriously degrades your immersion within the dream. Use it as a booster, just for a second or two, to see what happens.
Let me know how it all goes.

Sorry I ramble on, lol
-sloth

Thanks for the advice,I was kinda slapping the wall more than trying to put it though. Im gonnakeep dowing the wall RC and try some other ones cause these obviously arnt working very well for me. :|