At this point it sounds like being able to remember multiple dreams without waking up in the middle/after them is a lot more advanced than remembering multiple dreams a night because you kept waking up. At the very least, my dream recall seems decent. I've already dabbled into lucid dreaming off and on in the past, and since, although I didn't use a dream journal, I would try hard to remember my dreams every night. I think that helped a lot. Only recently did I start recording my dreams on my phone with a voice recorder after I listened to a "hypnotic lucid dream induction" over night and had a DILD the same night (although I woke up almost immediately, and I'm not sure if spinning brought me back in or if it just prolonged my waking up. Unfortunately it didn't work twice, and many nights of attempts since then, I still haven't had another one on my own.

So far I've tried binaural beats, which I was kept completely awake throughout and the hypnotic inductions (basically an audible voice saying "The next time I dream, I will become lucid" and various other suggestions, much like in the MILD technique), but that only kind of worked once, and the times I tried it after were failures. Right now I'm doing it in a more traditional way, with a voice recorded dream journal and having my phone set off an alarm every 2 hours with the message "Are you dreaming?". I then look at my hands for abnormalities, look at myself in them mirror for abnormalities, flip light switches on and off, squeeze my nose to see if I can still breathe through it, and attempt to fly by jumping in the air, all the while trying to ask myself in my head or out loud "am I dreaming?". Unfortunately it's really hard to take yourself seriously when you're pretty darn sure you're awake, I just wish I could be seriously skeptical about whether or not I'm dreaming... but I suppose the point is more to make questioning your environment a habit so it'll have more of a chance to happen in the dream. Then when I go to bed I lay down, relax, then tell myself "My dreams will be vivid. I will wake up after every dream and recall every detail." That might have helped last night since I remembered 2-3 dreams instead of just the one I usually remember, but I think it's just because last night I was a bit restless. Either way, using the MILD technique seems to be making progress.

Does anyone have any tips to improve my technique? I'd like to keep on trying with the MILD, but I'm wondering if I should alter my mantra, since it makes no mention of lucid dreaming. Should I focus on lucid dreaming every night, or should I put all of my efforts towards dream recall? How are my reality checks? I'm open to any suggestions you may have.