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Today all I was thinking about was lucid dreams, and I was thinking if you think about lucid dreams can it increase your chances of becoming lucid, I have done reality checks Atleast 10 times, I just can't get lucidity out my mind, is this good and will it help me?
As a general rule, yes, thinking about lucid dreaming increases your chances. Its not a massive increase in chances, but its still noticeable and its how some are able to have lucid dreams immediately upon learning about it. Of course, thinking about lucid dreams usually leads to one performing reality checks and such, which will increase it even more.
As long as you make sure not to stress it out too much.
If you become too anxious and result oriented you're also on high risk of loosing motivation if things don't go as you planned as quickly as you expected.
So my thoughts being this: Up to a point where lucidity and dreams in general is something that is part of your lifestyle, that you put action and attention into, it is most certainly critical even. It's when you start having trouble falling asleep normally (and such) because you're too excited about the LD you're gonna have that it might actually work against you. At this point, consider relaxing a little bit on the approach, try not making lucidity in your life an "all about the hype" matter, it's a bad move in my experience. Smooth your way into your dreams! Cheers :)
Thinking, writing, drawing, talking, reading... every time you do something LDing related helps you in achieving lucidity.
But of course, it doesn't replace preparation. Daytime awareness, RCs, mantras, knowing that you can do it and having intent.
Like others have stated, all the concepts you learned, you'll eventually find yourself making those neurological connections without you even knowing it, and something that I may add that I'm starting to notice that improves my recall (or just anything in general)is:
During hypnosis sessions (even when I'm not even aiming for dream recall), I found that the tonality of how I say a particular script I make contributes to me being more focused, an inward focus/concentration. Just like when you tell a story to someone, they detect how you feel happy or depressed in moments, and you can find yourself literally imagining what they're doing. Because when you're listening to the story, your unconscious is digging whatever it is in the confines of your mind to relate to the situation (i.e. When people ask, "You know when so and so does this, and they do this?"). It's what we naturally do when we want to get in synch with what a person is saying, because stories themselves actually bypass our critical factor, because it'll be thinking, "Oh! It's just a story!"
Now, you apply this same principle that hypnosis can provide (bypassing that critical factor), when you learn to develop your own tonality, or "hypnotist" voice or "trance voice" even, you see the imagery coming by naturally, and you don't really question it, because you already know what's going to happen. You create this sense of confidence where you acknowledge that your unconscious will connect the dots together to make something happen, and when we find ourselves having better recall or just remembering a lucid dream, we wonder where it came from, when it was simply the workings of the unconscious mind and its implicit knowledge, or just the ability to see the patterns connect together and run smoothly.
So yes, thinking about lucidity during the day and all those other aspects will contribute with being lucid at night, but you can take it even further by learning hypnosis. It's just one route, or one process to get to the trance state (where we can become in a more suggestive state). We go through trance states naturally without even knowing it, and people also use mantras as a conduit in getting into a trance state, so with practice, it can help. However, usually because of our critical factors, it varies on how those suggestions leak into our minds and expands with mantras, some people just have better grasp on conceptualizing what they want to do in the end, but sometimes the mild hypnotic process we go through with mantras isn't enough, so extending it a bit (like a story), helps a lot, because it seeps into the mind easier. Instead of giving the critical factor time to analyze things, you're already distracting it and getting the suggestions in. And the more you do it, the easier it gets.
I hopefully will make a thread with hypnosis scripts and learning how to develop your own hypnotist voice and all that fun stuff. Anyway, good luck. :)