Cool thing happened last night. I woke up 40 minutes before my alarm. I had already had two dreams so I knew I was in prime dream time. I did the MILD exercise with one of my previous dreams and fell back to sleep. I remember asking myself "where am I" then the dreamscape of the place I had been visualizing appeared. "oh ya of course i'm here, why was I confused" The alarm went off a few seconds later.
It wasn't lucid, but pretty cool. Some evidence that the MILD exercises have an effect for me.