Thread: First real lucid (and it was awesome!)

Actually, my recall shot up not because of the alarm but because I ended up waking after every single sleep cycle. Maybe it was a combination of my mantra and my excitement, but it got annoying after a while because I would wake up every 1-2 hours and have to MILD all over again. I didn't even bother to write down my dreams because I was bored of getting so many non-lucids.
I'm gonna set my alarm for 4, which is about 5 hours or less into my sleep. I also posted the wrong mantra in my previous post, the one I used last night was "I will be dreaming soon and I will know that I am dreaming. I will wake up after each dream and remember it." It must have worked well, cause I entered my dream fully lucid even before the RC but was unable to control the dream for some reason until I did the nose RC.
BTW, any tips for napping? I slept from like 3-6 today and got a few dreams but no lucids when I tried MILD.
EDIT: Can speaking help increase my stability or control?