Hey, first post!

Well I'm a senior high school student and Ive decided to cover lucid dreaming for my science fair project. My goal is to reach lucidity in a time-frame of 30 days. So far it's been 1 week since I started dream recall by using a dream log every morning. Im also focusing on using the DILD method with some pre-sleep meditation and self suggestion... but so far nothing. I just seem to dream and not notice it is a dream until I wake up!

The only thing I guess I could improve is to use the reality check technique and to prolong my sleeping schedule from my usual 6-7 hours to some 8 solid hours. But aside from that is there any other thing I could do to improve the chances of being lucid?