The only current methods that I've tried is when I set an alarm to wake up about 2 hours before I have to actually get up, and then usually when I wake up I recall the dream i was in the middle of pretty vividly. Then I try to go back to sleep with lucid dream intentions, attempting to allow sleep paralysis to set in while I remain conscious and drift into the lucid dream directly. When I had my only lucid dream using this method, I simply sat up and turned around and saw myself sleeping. Are their better or more effective methods to use? I have been thinking of getting some type of piece "yes like in inception, haha" that I keep with me and constantly use as a reality checking device, does this make my "dream self" check for reality as well and I will just all of a sudden become lucid in the middle of a dream because my dream self checked reality with my piece and it failed?