I am pretty new to this lucid stuff, i discovered lucid dreaming from my brother and i was fascinated by this. I did a lot of research to learn more about it and came to this website.

But the problem is, i try to lucid every night, i try to DILD and MILD cause WILD seems to difficult and since i have school, i dont want it to make me tired during school. I remember at least 1 dream a night, but don't keep a journal because im to lazy and have to go to school and am way to tired from studying. My dreams seem very vivid and clear but no matter how hard i try i just can't realize that it's a dream, everything seems so real and i just can't figure it out. It really feels like i am there , it feels like im lucid without control. I once had a dream about playing recreational basketball, it REALLY felt like i was there but i just couldn't realize i was in a dream, I then woke up from my friend tackling me in my dream.

Does anyone have any helpful tips to how i can get lucid and how i can tell its a dream?