I have been trying to LD for about two weeks now. I have been recording my dreams, doing RCs every day, and I have mainly been trying the MILD technique to LD. Now so far I have greatly increased my dream recall and I have found several dream signs and situations that I am always in. Heres the thing, at least eight times I have realized that something strange is going on in my dreams and out of those eight, four times I did a nose RC. The first time I could only breathe out of my left nostril which I thought was strange in my dream but I just ignored it and the dream continued. When I woke up I found that my nose was stuffed up and I could only breathe through my left nostril! The other three times though, the nose RC completely didn’t work. I wasn’t able to breathe through my nose and the dream continued but when I woke up my nose wasn’t stuffed up and I was breathing fine. I have even tried the hand RC in one of my dreams and I still clearly had five fingers!
This is getting pretty annoying considering that I could have been lucid at least four times already! I have had two LDs in the past and both of those times the nose RC worked but for some reason now that I am returning to LDing the RCs aren’t working. Any tips?
P.S. I am not just doing the nose RC and leaving it, I usually make sure that I am not dreaming once I realize that I can’t breathe while my nose is plugged, sometimes saying out loud “I am not dreaming yet”.