I had a near-success this morning - I didn't quite reach lucidity, but I was so close.

I turned in a little later than usual at around 1am. I attempted the same thing I did yesterday. It didn't work, but I woke up at some point in the early hours of the morning and attempted a WBTB. Again, this didn't work.

However, when I woke close to 7am, I attempted a DEILD. I had a couple of dreams, but in the final one I should have become lucid. I say I should have, because the signs were around me in the environment. I was walking up a stretch of road near where I live, but there were some differences to the environment which I didn't pick up on. Such as an entire patch of overgrown land where there are buildings in my waking reality. Also, the weather was producing some spectacular effects, so I had to capture the scene on camera. I got my smartphone out and took a picture, and another sign should have been the way my smartphone switched into camera mode without me having to do anything.

I did do a reality check, but it was such a long walk that I could easily trace how I got to where I was. Also, I even had a reason to be there, although I cannot remember what that reason was. So I assumed that I wasn't dreaming. And then I woke up, and spent the next 45 minutes trying too hard to DEILD again, only to give up at around 8:20am.

I need some better reality checks.