Thread: Need some tips/suggestions

First off, Hello. This will be my first ever post on dreamviews and have been reading tons of sweet info on lucid dreaming on this website!

Not to get sidetracked but i honestly do want some tips on some stuff i have been doing with LDing.

I've started to get into lucid dreaming since May 23rd 2014 and achieved a short minute DILD lucid dream only after 10 days of trying but after that it seems like I've just been sleeping through the rest of my dreams with little to no luck with any lucidity.

There were 2-3 incidents where i have actually known i was dreaming but i had to open and my eyes and i thought i was opening them up in the real world.

I Dream Journal every night and have never skipped a day, even if i didn't remember the dream i would write "did not remember dream".

I am doing reality checks but not frequently, I've been trying once every hour but sometimes it skips from 1 hours to 3 and sometimes even more depending on what I'm doing.

I've tried to WILD but my brother always played bassy music at the times of which my REM sleep would start 2-7am which i could hear through my room and would mostly always cause me to lose focus and would be forced to wake up.

So what could I do in this situation? Should i just continue to do what I'm doing or try to focus more and get more awareness in my dreams instead of reality checking. I heard learning to have good awareness is better to start off with than reality checking but maybe i read wrong information.

Any comments would be sweet so comment below and i would love it if you guys gave me tips

Have a pleasant day all!