Hello, i'm new to lucid dreaming, my friend had told me about it and I tried to do it, anyway I have been doing some research online almost everywhere. I've come across some interesting stuff anyway, I started to lucid dream on 5-5-06, I also started a dream journal i have read alot of stuff about reality checks and technquies. For about 6 years i have not been able to recall any dreams what so ever, soon after I had my first recall I wrote it down. It is now 5-11-06 and I have started to recall about 3 dreams a night though my dreams are kinda fuzzy to remember. I have also been doing reality checks for 3 days now, I have a digital watch and i set it to beep about every hour so I always go by that but the problem I have is trying to reality check in my dreams. Whenever I wake up i am always dissapointed because I knew I was dreaming but failed to realize it. I was wondering if there is any techniques or if i should do anything diffrent to help me reaize this. I have a hard time trying to control myself to reality check in my dreams i even tell my self at night "I will recall my dreams, and I will know I am dreaming" but it fails everytime I know i shouldn't expect too much but I am really excited to lucid dream. I was thinking of maybe playing some music litely so that my consciousness is a little higher but im not sure, can someone please help me? Thank you!