So I have been using this technique over the past week or so. Typically I wake up in the middle of the night, so I have been doing it more with WBTB than using the tech as I go to sleep initially. It hasn't been particularly successful, but I have been taking the advice in the opening post and keeping at it.

Last night I had a particularly striking nightmare about a person collecting dead bodies in a hotel. Upon waking up I knew that I would be reentering this dream scenario throughout the night because of how powerful it was for me. I decided to use this MILD technique to try and enter a lucid dream and managed to do so, although not with 100% success. During one subsequent dream I became lucid, but only at the very end of the dream as it began to fade. Unfortunately I didn't manage to become lucid again. I will admit, though, this technique works and will probable work better for me with more practice.