Still no lucids last night. Did MILD as I went to sleep, however the SO stayed up late again. He agreed to be quiet, but the light from the computer kept taking away my focus, even though my eyes were closed. Seriously considering sleeping in the extra room every once in awhile so I can actually properly complete my MILDs. I managed to get to sleep, but an hour and a half later than what I wanted. Had a short funny dream, woke up for WBTB. Still no lucid. I have figured out that my SO could probably be a pretty reliable dream sign, though he's not in every one, but I'm guessing dream signs rarely are in every single dream. Got up for about 20 minutes to skim the forums, write down my dream and try listening to some golden flow meditation music to help me get back to sleep. I tried some light mantras also. It took awhile but I did end up falling back to sleep. Had another nice long detailed dream and remembered it upon waking. However this one started out very normal. At one point I was putting on some makeup in the mirror, which I've read of people using mirrors as their RC because normally you look distorted, but I looked completely normal, so I didn't RC..I'll keep trying. It's 10x more frustrating when the seemingly normalcy of the dream when starting convinces you it's not a dream, so when things get weird you don't even question it, bluh. I'm still going to wait about 2 weeks before I try different methods. I recently read about RILD (reward induced lucid dreams), and I may try that at some point, if I ever have my first lucid.

I think today I'll use my SO as my RC reminder. It'll be interesting since I see him literally all day, and I don't want to start doing RCs when I see him just out of mindless habit because I see him so often. I'll figure something out.

Does anyone find doing daily mantras AND RCs during the day helps more or less?