Howdy, I've always been interested in the dreamign world since i was young... it just always facinated me-- as i got older (i'm currently 17) I sereiously haven't dreamed in ages ( Well, actually "remembered" them), and i started wondering why can't i dream?

My first assumption was that i was sleeping too deeply. For a few years i sleep with a noise machine that made sounds of the ocean, rain, water, ect. It really puts you into a deep sleep, so i did away with that. I down graded to a small fan that i'm currently using-- that didnt help much.

My school just started a psychology class and the teacher told us to make a dream journal-- so we can analyize our dreams next week. Me being frustrated and wanting to dream, i posted on a forum that i visit regularly. People started posting things about lucid dreaming and dream recall. And many offered to just say "I want to remember my dreams, and I will remember them when i wake" before i went to sleep.

I tried that 2 nights ago and it actually worked. I actually remembered parts of my dream (fragments). I wrote it down, like most sites suggested.

Last night i read up on the wonders of lucid dreaming... its so interesting and wanted to give it a try. I used the MILD method once again, repeating it over and over in my head as i drifted to sleep. Then something very frustrating started happing-- I couldnt go to sleep. I would dose off for what felt like seconds.... then i would wake up and faintly have a thought in my head (possibley a short short dream?) then it would just disappear. And i did this about 3 times... before falling asleep and then not remembering any dreams at all.

Maybe i was trying to hard?

Then i read about False awakinings. And thought i had tricked myself and got a chuckle out of it.

I thought nothing of it-- because i just started. I had to stay out of school today for a denist appointment far away...soo i used the day to make reality checks.

I got home and was super tired... and i thought maybe i could get a dream or 2 out of this?

Wrong-- the same thing happened... i kept running my line over and over in my head-- and couldnt get fully to sleep... I even felt close to a dream and it would just stop with my eye movements?

Its truely hard to explain so please bear with me. I don't know what's going on. Why can't i go to sleep? Am i too eager? I'm as relaxed as i possibly can be. It just seems that right before i trasfer into dream lands my mind wonders, "Is it a dream" then i wake up.

Its constantly going back and forth.

Whats wrong?

EDIT: I do have a cold-- maybe its a subconcious urge to cough that is knocking out of sleep?