I am new here, and am still a little lost. I can remmebr all my dreams almost perfectly, and have been writign them down for about a week. But, I still am having problems actually attaining a lucid dream.

Anyways I have a few questions.

1. When doing MILD, do you state" I will wake up and remmeber my dream" out loud, or do you just think it? Also, do you wait till you fall asleep and wake up to do the next step? At this next step, are you going to say something out loud, or visualize it, and what EXACTLy do you need to do/say here? I tried imagining myself in back my dream that i just woke up from, and i couldnt think of any dream signs in the spot i left off from when i woke up (Can you just make one up?)

2.For some reason, I always dismiss obvious things like remembering to do reality checks when i dream. Also, if something happens, like a couch explodes, i just ignore it in a dream. How do i counter this?

I am namign my subconcious currently, so ill see if that helps too.

Please, i would really like some help here...