Hello! This is my first post here, and I'm looking forward to being part of a great lucid dreaming community!

Now that I have that out of the way, I have some questions. First, it's important that you know that while I'm not new to lucid dreaming, I'm still very much a beginner. I've had a few successful lucid dreams in the past that were my doing, but I quit for a while, and I'm very determined and eager to get back into it. For the past week and a half, I've been doing reality checks, and keeping a dream journal, and I've tried WBTB a few times (and almost WILD'd twice in the same morning! ), and I often try MILD while falling asleep. However I want to make sure I'm doing all of this correctly before I go any further.

My plan for reality checks is that whenever I enter a new room/location/destination, I perform a RC. My RC is that I count my fingers (the only LD's I've had involved me having way too many fingers), then I pinch my nose, then I ask myself how I got to where I am, where am I going next, and if this is normal. If there is a mirror in the room, it's my only RC and I push on it after I say "If this mirror is not completely solid, I'm dreaming."

My question is, what is a better time to do a RC? On occasion, I'll forget to do them, and I thought that since a dream jumps around a lot, it would be ideal to do a RC whenever I was in a new location. However this is not so. My mind only registers a new location by way of the passage leading from A to B, which rarely occurs in a dream. Also, last time I was into lucid dreaming, I decided I'd do a RC whenever I saw a certain color, but that was too often, and it became a tiresome chore. So when should I do a RC so that it happens often in the real world and in the dream, without me having to do one every 5 seconds?