Personally I don't think it should count against your effort in not hurting yourself. I mean it takes practice to learn to control dreams and to put that kind of pressure on a person who is trying to stop something that is already so difficult to stop would be totally unfair. I also don't count when I pick at scabs before I notice I am doing it. If I stop as soon as I notice what I am doing I call it a victory because I noticed and stopped. Unconscious behaviours take time and patience to stop.

How bad are the scratches? Is it something you can just ignore while your subconscious fights its battles? If not maybe you could buy some of those very thin cotton gloves to wear at night.
Carrie

<font color=green>But the implicit and usually unconscious bargain we make with ourselves is that, yes, we want to be healed, we want to be made whole, we're willing to go some distance, but we're not willing to question the fundamental assumptions upon which our way of life has been built, both personally and societally.--Bill Plotkin, Soulcraft