Hello mattyd, welcome to the class! Your friend could count as a dream sign, yes. Now that your dreams are becoming more vivid and easier to remember, dream signs should start sticking out to you more and more. The face thing could be a dream sign too.

So have you read lesson 1? It has some tips for how to increase your chances of having lucid or vivid dreams, like diet changes. Have you been incubating dreams or using mantras with MILD too?