Let me first start off by saying hello, I am tboi3000. If you wish, you can call me Tyler. If you pay attention to title's, you might notice me being new here. I thought this site was REALLY helpful with induction methods (which is how I found this site) and thought I could benefit greatly in my journey through Lucid Dreams and Spirituality.

Like I also stated in the title, I am fairly new to both of these topics. I have been training, if you would call it that, to remember my dreams as I hadn't been bothering to for the passed years of my life and that getting my dream recall to 2+ a night is already an amazing, rewarding experience for my nearly 2 months of practice/study. My search for information on Spirituality has been going on for a much shorter amount of time (1.5 months).

There's my introduction! So yeah, below I have a couple of questions regarding Lucid Dream, dreaming in general, and sleep in general and answers are greatly appreciated!

just for added info, I've been practicing MILD and DILD so I'm not too familiar with WILD or WBTB and other induction methods (I know the terms and what they involve, I'm just not experienced with them)...

1. I have had 1 Lucid Dream throughout my "enhancing dream recall/lucid dream" 'training' period and some other waking-myself-ups over that same lapse of time. Is that a decent amount for a beginner oneironaut? I have been doing the odd reality checks and such but haven't been having frequent LDs...

2. I am doing somewhat frequent Reality Checks (2-5 every 2 hours) but am not 'remembering' to do them when I am dreaming. Should I do them more often or should I be looking for other, maybe odd times to do a Reality Check?

3. When reading my dream journal, I have noticed a large amount of dreams are not obscure and are just bland, boring, eventless. Does that mean I need to be getting more sleep or are obscure dreams just randomly occurring dreams??

4. What are some more tips/tricks/etc to do before bed to ensure a LD will occur this night?

Thanks a lot for the helps guys!