Yet another newbie

[pringlechip]

Hello, only recently have I started to regularly remember my dreams through practice. When laying in bed after focusing on my breathing and quieting my mind I will tell myself "I will remember, I will remember...", and this has worked for me so far. I have not kept a constant dream journal, although I do have one. I've also noticed that in my dreams I am myself, but I have no control over my own actions. I've done some reading on this site already, but from what I read the tutorials concern mostly becoming lucid. These would help more if I could perform these reality checks, but as I said I feel that I can't control myself. Perhaps I am controlling myself, but because the situations I am in seem real I simply don't realize what is happening. Anyway, I came to this forum because it seems friendly, and very well put together. After seeing Waking Life I have been inspired to discover what I can learn about myself as that is my goal: knowing myself. It's great to be here! :]

[Widdles55]

I felt the same waith with not being able to control myself but without a doubt I knew it was me. Reality checks are what it took for me. For almost 3 months of doing them I never once had a lucid dream. Then I sorta gave up, a week or two later I had several almost back to back and all but twice it was because I looked down at my hands and though "wtf?" and became lucid, the other two were from looking at my iPhone and noticing I couldn't do anything with it.

[ManningQB18]

Im new to lucid dreaming and doing this from my ipod, so excuse any bad grammar. But I also do not have much control and had a similar feeling when I first started trying to Lucid Dream, but I think the key is to start doing reality checks at all times during the day and to make it a habit. When you are doing it, make sure you put a lot of thought into it at all times, I too feel somewhat skeptical that it will work, but I had my girst DILD in multiple years because of an RC. Excuse me if I misread. Edit: And as for flying, I have been having trouble too, where I can only do it by swimming through the air. I want to do something else, but in my recent one, I couldnt take off. I'm going to try imagining the feeling of flying fast as opposed to feeling the motions. That may work.

[XeL]

Welcome pringlechip! I hope you will enjoy your stay here and... Long live the eye avatars!

[mrToad]

Welcome There's a lot of tutorials available. The idea would be practice in waking life carrying over into dreaming automatically. And that would be what sparks consciousness in your dream.

[pringlechip]

Thank you for the warm welcome! I have made it to the sleep paralysis twice now. Yesterday morning I felt the rush, and buzzing, and I think I may have had a false awakening because everything just stopped so I gave up. This morning I felt a rush two times, and then after a buzzing throughout my limbs. The hardest part so far for me is keeping my mind awake while I enter a dream. I can feel the dream coming in concepts, but I either think too much, and loose it, or I lose consciousness. To me the eye avatar represents how at all times the outside world is a creation of our minds as sense perception is really just electrical signals in the brain. I really only know my mind exists, everything else... well that's a different story .

[XeL]

. To me the eye avatar represents how at all times the outside world is a creation of our minds as sense perception is really just electrical signals in the brain. I really only know my mind exists, everything else... well that's a different story . I like your way of thinking.

[pringlechip]

Thanks . I've been able to remember up to 4 dreams a night lately so I've been pretty excited.