Welcome to the forums, Flask! I am glad you decided to join!

You mentioned mentioned you had two or three lucid dreams before you decided to google them. What about after? Have you have any in the three months you have been keeping a dream journal and practicing reality checks? Are you going to be keeping a dream journal on this site?

I recommend you just focus on something else while doing reality checks instead of blinking. How did you get to where you were? What does everything look like? Pay attention to all the details.

Anyway, good luck with lucid dreaming! If you have any questions you are ALWAYS welcome to PM me, and I will try to reply as soon as I can.