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?