Reality, like art, means drawing a line. -Oscar Wilde

Alright, so I've had an entire whole TWO! lucid dreams in my life. Hehe, but of course those two wonderful moments sparked an ever present interest. However, after life gave me a few hard kicks in the rump I haven't had time or energy to keep up with my progress.

Both of my LDs were brought on by DILD, but I had also been attempting WILDs at the time. I was younger, therefore less patient. So I made all the mistakes they tell you not to make. I attempted WILDs before sleeping, I did my RCs sporadically(though thankfully they got through to my subconcious eventually)...anyways the whole point is that I'm back. Older, wiser(a bit) and much more patient. For the past week I've been attempting WILDs, with sleep beforehand. So far I've reached a point where I think I could've moved into a dream, but I ended up getting overly excited and ruining it.

So, mostly for my own incentive and responsibility to keep up with this I am making a thread for myself.

I've been doing a lot of research again, trying to get myself into the LDing mode. So here is exactly what I've been doing.

For DILDs:
I've been doing RCs randomly, and particularly when I do anything frequently. Such as turn on my computer, get in my car, smoke a cigarette, take a shower, look in a mirror, turn on and off the lights...ect. Things I do everyday and that I see in my dreams alot. I have a tendency to look in mirrors during my dreams, even when not lucid, so I've been paying special attention to that.
Luckily I have very good dream recall no matter what I'm doing, and it only heightens when I'm attemtping LDs. I can often remember my dreams as if I were actually there. I can remember my feelings on what was happening at the time. It's proving helpful in reminding myself to do RCs. For instance when I'm driving I remember to look around and make sure I'm not dreaming because a lot of my dreams happen in cars, or in parking lots.

For WILDS:
This one is tricky because there are SO SO SO many tutorials and they all jumble together.
What's proven most effective for me at the moment is to sleep between 5-8 hours(I haven't found the best time just yet but it's in that range). I wake up, usually use the bathroom, and then stumble back to bed.
I have discovered that I am the sort of person who needs to wake up more. I.e. turn on a light, drink some water, stretch, focus on something. If I don't I am just too tired to care about WILDing.
Now, for the technique I find if I get comfortable enough then staying perfectly still doesn't prove a problem. (Meaning I don't have to focus too hard to stay really still because it's the position I would normally go to bed in.)
I try to find an anchor, as some of tutorials have described as something to passively pay attention to so as to keep concious. I've tried focusing on external things.(the way my leg feels pressed up against the bed, the sound of air coming through the crack in the window.) It doesn't seem to be too much more effective than passively reminding myself to 'stay aware' or repeating 'I will lucid dream'. So I just kind of go with what feels right at the time.
The farthest I've gotten to were passing visuals, sounds/songs/voices, flashes of light, ect.
I've also had a very different experience where, without the sounds and visuals, I had an intense vibrating, numbness, a feeling of being lifted and pulled and strangest of all my television was going with the volume very very low but still audible, and at the most intense moments of this strange pulling and floating I could hear my television sound farther away and eventually I couldn't hear it at all. Though I got overexcited and the noise rushed back and my body relaxed. I don't know what all of that meant, but it was interesting either way.

So these are my experiences thus far. I will be posting updates as often as possible with dreams I've recalled and how far I got with my WILDs. Also, as I've had success with DILDS before, I'm hoping to get a few LDs that way. It's mostly a back up in case my WILDs fail.

If you guys want to ask me about specifics, or better yet, give advice I'd greatly appreciate it. Also, remember I just got back into about a week ago. I currently have a lot of time on my hands because I'm inbetween school and work. I'm hoping to at least start having frequent LDs before I start working, that way I'll have some motivation to continue WILDing.

Good luck on everyone else's quest for lucidity, I only hope mine leads me somewhere as well.