Hello Andrew, to Dream Views!
Starting a dream journal is the correct first step, though it wouldn't hurt to also start doing reality checks right away as it takes some time before they become effective. I hope you won't have as much trouble with procrastination as I have had. Keeping up RCs and a journal can both be tedious tasks, yet both are pretty much necessary. There are other techniques to become lucid, yet they are quite hard to pull of for a non-expert. I know from when I was lucid dreaming that keeping a journal would give me a recall of around four dreams per night (versus one or two by trying to recall them without writing them down) and performing RCs gave me up to two LDs per week (versus one per one or two months by just keeping a diary).
So... on to tips:
-For the dream journal I'd suggest that you try to write down as much detail as possible (everything), yet not bother much to write a coherent and gramatically correct story. Abbreviate common elements. It doesn't matter much if you'll forget the meaning of abbreviations later on- do you really intend to read this thing years on? Will you ever have the kind of time to read the volumes you've written? I made the mistake of writing full stories and it took me 30+ minutes per day, making me procrastinate writing things down and drop the whole thing later on.
-For reality checks I suggest making the nose check one of your default tests (it almost never fails), to conduct your tests properly and to pay attention to them (else you might test positive in your dream and think nothing of it). Aim for the recommended twenty per day, but know that you haven't screwed up if you only manage ten or even just five; it's still better then nothing, just don't quit. If you really don't feel like doing a RC (started happening to me after some time) then perhaps you could try thinking of them as giving you a +1% chance of a lucid that night or something along the lines? Motivation is key!
I'm actually back to the forums to get me motivated to get started with this again... so I hope to see you around. Good luck!
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