Hi, I'm new here and new to LD'ing. I really want to do this and something happened this morning that I'm not really sure was an LD. I woke up at 6:00 this morning, then sat up reading the forums and Twoshadow's dream journal until about 7:00. I went back to bed, and started repeating to myself "I am dreaming. I know that I am dreaming." even though I was still awake really, I thought this would be easier than putting it in the future tense and less likely to keep me awake.

I started to dream, I guess. Once I was pouring milk into this big machine to make cakes or ice cream or something, and in another, I was in my garage with my woodworking equipment. I had a few other ones as well. In most, if not all, I could hear myself saying, "This is a dream. I am actually in bed". I did an RC by putting my right index finger through my left hand.

As soon as I thought of myself being somewhere else in bed, the dreams started to fade and everything got blurry. I tried to spin a little, but I couldn't keep myself from waking up.

Every one of these experiences only lasted for about 5 seconds before I was pulled back to reality. So I'd like to know, are these real LD's, or is this just that Hypnagogic stuff I've heard about? It didn't really feel very vivid, or like I was truly conscious and aware like I've heard some people say. I still felt like a dream person.

These dreams went on until about 8:00, then I started to tell myself, "I am dreaming, and I'm going to stay in my dream." The next thing I remember, it was 10:00 and my wife was waking me up for church. I wonder if I had a really good one during those 2 hours and just don't remember it now.

What do you think?