Man, I'm kinda jealous of these responses to be honest.
Mine was more than a year after joining DV I want to say, so about...5 years ago now. About 5 years out of highschool for me also.

I remember seeing Waking Life in highschool and even that wasn't enough. I can remember dreams I had as a kid, but mostly because they have always tended to be quite nonsense and nightmarish.

It took a long time of journaling and sign tracking to get to anywhere close to lucidity for me. Also drinking has always killed any recall I've managed to develop. At the time I was finally successful, I was also experiencing...a prolonged period of forced sobriety.