Naiya's Guide, which is excellent.
Also, Shift's Guide, which is actually the one I started to learn from, first.
Both are excellent guides on how to get started on DILDs, MILDs and WILDs (in Naiya's guide).
My own personal experience, I didn't have a LD for 3 weeks after joining. I've had DILDs throughout my life, ever since I was a teenager (I'm 26 now), so when I didn't have one for 3 weeks, I got antsy. I thought maybe I was hindering my ability to have a LD ever again.
The key is to relax and know that it will happen. As both guides mention, this takes time and practice!
I also had the same problem as you in my dreams. I tend to dream about fairly realistic things (with some odd twists that really SHOULD provoke me to become lucid, but don't ). Like I'm hanging out with the BF, or I'm at work, or I'm out and about with friends. I very rarely get a crazy plot that's completely unrealistic.
Something that helped me remember to reality check in waking life was picking something that occurs normally, a daily dream sign, and everytime it occurs, to remember to RC. What really helps is, once you get your dream sign for the day, imagine all of the opportunities you can possibly have occur throughout your day and imagine yourself RC-ing to them. When they do occur, pretend that you did just become lucid and stablize your 'dream' (like rubbing your hands together; focusing on something smaller, like say a chair in the room until your dream remains stable).
It took a bit to remember to RC when encountering the daily dream sign. Some signs are easier to remember than others.
Eventually, you'll become increasingly aware of your surroundings. For me, my day is like one long reality check. It's the constant awareness of my environment. How I move, what it feels like. How I think (because even my thoughts in a LD are just different than in waking life). How did I get here. Can I remember what I did previously to where I am now. Does everything around me logically make sense? Can I breathe through my nose when I pinch it?
So far, it's taken a month to get to this point!
How long do you dream? By this i mean, how long does the dream feel like? (Like a day, an hour or maybe just some minutes)
This is hard for me to answer. When I DILD, it's hard for me to tell how long I've been asleep/dreaming up to the point where I become lucid.
In my last lucid, I slept for 3 hours. The dream itself was lucid from the get-go. It was like it was a black void, and then I was at work with my mum and brother there. That instantly made me lucid, so I started experimenting with my environment. With all the things I did/tried, in dream world it was probably a few minutes worth of control. 5 minutes at the most. Assuming that this dream started as soon as I fell asleep, then basically '5 minutes' in my dream world took 3 hours to dream. But I can't say that for certain.
Do you feel like you are living two lives, one dream life and one real life?
I don't LD frequently enough to answer this, appropriately, but if I had one every night? Hmm. I think I'd still have to say no. For me, my dreams are often different plots a night, very randomly different things happening. I think it would only feel like a double life, to me, if my LD's actually followed a rather consecutive course just like real life does.
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