hi dreamers could anybody help me please i seem to be struggling to tell myself i am dreaming when i know im dreaming (if that makes sense) for example i will run through last nights process.
i went to bed after drinking a coffee with two teaspoons full of coffee, i do this because i cannot set an alarm because i have a baby sleeping in the same room, i went to bed a 12:30 and went to sleep with all the usual intentions of telling myself im dreaming ect. i woke up arount 02:30 and thought to myself probably too early to get a lucid dream, but none the less i repeated the above techniques. i fell to sleep and eventually found myself dreaming that i was a an area 52 style complex owned by stephen laberge . i woke up about 05:00 and thought about what i had been dreaming about and went back to sleep to find myself back in the same place but for some reason even though my dream was about lucid dreaming i still could not tell myself i was dreaming,
sorry if post is a bit confusing or that i put pointless sentences but maybe its one of the above methods are inhibiting my chances of recognising im dreaming
You could maybe do RC’s until you get used to them so that wherever you are you test for reality. Also the more you LD them the more you realize. [spoiler] Kind of like totems in inception [/spoiler]
The problem is that in dreams you usually accept pretty much anything.
Some people make it sound so easy, like “that looks unreal, this means I’m probably dreaming”, when in fact for many people it’s more like “everything makes perfect sense” - PLUS the fact that you often can’t even take control of yourself, you are stuck in some kind of video sequence and remain a passive observer most of the time.
I think I’m making progress myself, since my dream recall has greatly increased and I think I even was partly lucid last night (I believe I was talking with a dream character about the possiblities of sharing “this dream we are in” with other persons IRL), but it’s still frustratingly hard for me to actually become aware and perform actions myself.
Yes, I have the same problem… From last night i remember five ND’s … But I haven’t become lucid in one of them … I think i have great DR so I will continue with MILD and DILD… And also I’m practicing RC and I have a habit to do them every hour or less, so I just need to say to my self that I’m dreaming, I think that’s the only thing missing in my dreams…
My first LD was through the process of asking the vital questions, and doing RC’s when i fully think to myself I am dreaming, don’t do an RC just because you should, really mean it.
Just study your sourroundings for about 15 seconds, and look at everything intensly, this will carry on into the dream as you suddenly look around you and think is this a dream? And following that thought will be an RC then you will realise your dreaming.
It’s all about the lucid mindset and asking the vital quesitons. “What was I just doing?” “I could be dreaming” “Where am I”.
. i woke up about 05:00 and thought about what i had been dreaming about and went back to sleep to find myself back in the same place but for some reason even though my dream was about lucid dreaming i still could not tell myself i was dreaming,
… But I haven’t become lucid in one of them 
… I think i have great DR so I will continue with MILD and DILD… And also I’m practicing RC and I have a habit to do them every hour or less, so I just need to say to my self that I’m dreaming, I think that’s the only thing missing in my dreams… 