Best technique from a LD 'veteran'

[Rlstric1]

A little background about myself. I'm new to Dreamviews but not new to Lucid Dream forums. Around 5 years ago was when I started getting really interested in Lucid Dreaming after accidentally becoming lucid in one of my dreams. So I did what any teenager would do with a question, I went to google. Google made me come across a wonderful website, that's no longer active, called Astralviewers.com. After spending days reading on techniques and stories on Lucid Dreaming and Astral Projections/OBEs, I began trying.... and failing miserably. Although my failures were probably attributed to trying the most difficult and frightening technique which is to induce sleep paralysis. I never actually obtained lucidity with WILD and gave up for a few months after becoming frustrated only to try again and continue failing later on and quit until recently. Last year I started a new job and one of my co-workers told me he was becoming an insomniac because sleep deprivation was leading to sleep paralysis every few nights. I told him that he could induce and OBE through sleep paralysis or at least a lucid dream. I could explain exactly what he needed to do and after a few days he came up to me thanking me for an awesome experience. This inspired me to start trying again after years of failure. I thought I would take up an 'easier' technique like DILD. I actually had success with DILD due to what I believe to be a clever idea. I wore a broken watch on my wrist and checked it multiple times a day until I memorize the image of the watch face since it never changed. In my dreams when I would look at the watch it would never be what I memorized it and I would become lucid. The only problem with this was that I couldn't control when I would actually look at my watch during a dream. I could go weeks with dreams where I wouldn't look at my watch. Lately I've been researching again in what I believe is a last ditch effort because I love lucid dreaming so much but I find it so difficult to obtain. I found a Youtuber who swears by the FILD technique, and my problem with that technique is that I become too aware and I am taping my fingers and begin to become awake. My question for all of you LD veterans would be what technique should I continue with or is there a technique with such a phenomenal success that I should try it? Has anyone else had as much of a stuggle as I have?