WBTB Help

[boko11]

Just wanted to say quickly thanks for all the support around here for newb LD'ers. Its a great and friendly environment. Thank you all. I tired WBTB sleep last night and I woke up and stayed up for around 40 mins and ended up falling asleep and having a dream, over the course of 3 hours or so I had multiple dreams and woke up a few times but fell back into another dream. Problem is, I cant seem to do anything, the dreams just take over and I'm powerless to do anything. I'm sure everyone has this "normal" dreams where it's just a dream and not lucid. Is this because I had no induction technique or not doing it properly? I tired a mantra for a while like "I will lucid dream" and eventually just fell asleep but just had a uncontrolled dream. Is there a better way to do the WBTB? I happy I was able to get the dreams in WBTB but that's pretty easy I guess, just need to know the next step to being able to recognize I'm in the dream after WBTB. I know RC checks are good, but I can never perform them because the dream just flows on without my conscious thought controlling it Sorry for all the text, wanted to explain it as best as I could. Thanks guys!