Hello everyone, this is my first post here on Dream Views, but I've been reading a lot of topics for a while and wish to congratulate you all for this awesome community you got here. Also, excuse my english, it's not my native language.

So let's cut to the chase. I've been dedicating some time to lucid dreaming for a couple months, and as far as I can remember I've had around five or six lucid dreams so far. They were short and I had only a little control over them.
This is what I've done so far:

- keep a dream journal: this is becoming a questionable one for me. Even if I update my journal almost everyday as precisely as I can remember a dream per night, it didn't help me finding dream signs. I only have one good DS, but I know I shouldn't depend only on that one to achieve lucidity. Should I stop keeping the journal?

- doing RC's during the day: I always RC whenever I remember to do them (I have a cellphone wallpaper that reminds me to do it). But even if I RC a lot in the awake life, I never RC during a dream. The only times I got lucid were when I randomly questioned my state upon seeing something strange (even though a LOT of weird things happen everyday in my dreams, but I almost never question them) and them did the RC and it confirmed I was dreaming, or I saw the only dream sign I've found out so far.

- tried WILD, but no success so far: yeah I tried it just for shits and giggles, but I was actually kinda afraid it would actually work. it seems like a very scary experience. My question is: What exactly is the connection between WILD and sleep paralysis to lucid dreaming. How is SP going to get me lucid? Are those absolutely necessary?

So, I'd like to ask you how should I proceed now, since I feel I've been stuck on the same level for quite some time, not improving at all and have no idea what techniques should I try now or if I should continue doing what I've been doing so far. Here are a few questions:


- Do I need to change something, or try a different induction technique since it's been so hard to me to question my state during a dream and actually get lucid? Most of my LD's only happened due to a random occurrence that led me into questioning my state.

- Even my lucid dreams felt very vague and not vivid at all. They didn't feel any different from other dreams I have. Is this normal? Is there anything I can do to turn these lucid dreams into a more "real" situation?

- This technique kinda helped me get some results. It led me into a LD once.
Any advice on how to improve with it or is it not good at all?

tl;dr - I feel like I'm not improving much at all with just RC's and a DJ, need advice.