Awesome to greet such an enthusiastic new member! Welcome to DreamViews! I only recently got back into LDing, but at one point I was having around 20 LDs a month. My goal was a LD every night, so I got pretty close. There are other members in my time who, while practicing lucid dreaming, LDed literally every night (Naiya and Walms come to mind). Often times, they had multiple LDs a night. Let me note that a totem can be used to help you obtain lucidity, but unlike the movie (Inception) it could also fail sometimes. I'm not sure how you are using it to incorporate it into LDing, but a few suggestions... 1. Don't use it as your only reality check. Always have multiple RCs, because even the most reliable can fail occasionally. As for the lighter, every time you notice you have it in your possession/see it throughout waking life, take a moment to do a reality check. That way, if it shows up in the dream you'll do a RC and become lucid. If you carry it around with you everywhere, it will definitely show up in your dreams.