Hello Pleska, and welcome to the DILD class! You can use your workbook here as a place to write notes to yourself, just communicate with others about your progress, and to ask questions.
How lucky for you to be discovering lucid dreaming at a young age, when you can really make progress and develop for yourself a solid lucid dreaming practice that can last you your whole life!
Dream recall is definitely helped by noticing multiple wakings during the night, and each time you find yourself awake, reaching for dream recall. It's also beneficial to record (voice, pen&paper, phone, whatever works for you and doesn't wake you up too much) at least a few keywords so that in the morning you can remember the dreams from the earlier wakings. You can set intent to notice wakings, remain still, and recall your dreams. Balancing this with more restful sleep can be tricky sometimes. Maybe you don't do it every night, but the more times you do reach for recall, the better you'll get at it.
Questioning your state is a good practice. Developing the mindset that at any time, you could possibly be in the dream state, can help avoid those "I'm obviously awake" cases where you miss a lucid dream. One of the things that always amazes me when I get lucid in a dream, is how immediately before that I felt totally awake!
There are many good resources on this site. You can check my signature for links to some of the articles I've written on this site (dream recall tips, and my general approach to lucid dreaming, and some others).
If you have not yet read it, I strongly recommend reading Exploring The World Of Lucid Dreaming by LaBerge, chapters 1-3. This will give you all you need to know to develop a comprehensive and successful dreaming & lucid dreaming practice.
It helps in LD practice to not just aim only for lucid dreams, but to develop a very close relationship with all your dreams. That means: realizing you do dream, a lot, every night, becoming very familiar with your dreams and sleep rhythms, and being very interested in recalling and recording (in a DJ) your dreams. Good luck, and let us know if you have any questions!
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