Firstly,
Don't take everything you read on this forum too seriously.
Not every technique or idea is based on reality, some are the result of placebo, coincidence and the classic case of forum hype.
Peanut butter and Apple juice are both clasic examples of things that have got a lot of hype, but don't have a huge amount of foundation to them (at least yet), there is a very high chance both may not help lucidity at all.
If you are starting out in lucid dreaming, then the best chance for success will be with WBTB. Sounds like you tried this, but maybe too early in the night.
You want to aim for around five or six hours sleep. Stay up for a reasonable amount of time once you get up, I find that i tend to get the urge to return to sleep after about 20 minutes, and use this as my cue to go back to bed.
In my WBTBs i often have a sweet snack, and a weak cup of tea, and try to keep performing reality tests every few minutes, to get my mind primed for returning to sleep.
Then all you really need to do is set your mind the task of remembering to switch awarness on every 5 or 10 minutes. Same process you use when you are trying to remember to do something later in the day.
Then it's down to the luck of the draw, your brain chemistry, where you are in your sleep cycle etc. etc.
With this techinque you'll probably not get lucid every attempt, but you'll certainly have a reasonably high ratio.
Keep trying, stay positive, don't burn out.
These things take time, practice and a good deal of patience.
If at first you don't succeed, try try again (but also remember to keep changing what you try, until you stumble across the best method for you)
PS. a DILD isn't waking up after realisng your dreaming (as your signature says) it's realising you are dreaming in the middle of a dream.
Maybe you didn't mean it that way, but it seems like it from how it is written.
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