Hello there!
My name is Hans. I am 16 years old and started to get into Lucid Dreaming on Wednesday.
I first learned about it a couple of years ago by my brother who had an LD without trying. Then I did some research, and I think I had an LD, I'm not sure. But anyway now I'm getting really interested and excited about it. I have studied and read and done research on the subject for a couple of days now. I do a noseplug every 5-10 minutes, or every time I enter a new room. I RC very frequently, however more rarely I really question reality. Once an hour I look around, pay attention to my environment, look at it, touch it, smell it and realize how it affects me and how I affect it. I do this and then RC, I truly question if it's real and believe it's a dream, and I ask where I was last? How did I get here? Where am I going next?. So I think my awareness is quite good.

Now there is one problem I do have. Dream Recall. I try to remember my dreams. On Wednesday, I remembered one dream which I wrote down. On Thursday I remembered two dreams. Friday I remembered no dreams, and neither on Saturday. I have been reading up on recall, and learned that when I wake up, I shouldn't move or open my eyes, and immediately try to remember my dream and write it down in my journal. I will try this tonight. I might also try to wake myself up between late cycles to remember my dreams.

Every night I have been attempting WILD several times. I have failed and not really gotten close. I now realize that I shouldn't jump straight onto the most difficult method of LD induction. So I will try to continue with DILD and MILD w/ WBTB. So if I have understood MILD correctly, when I perform WBTB, I repeat a mantra before I go to sleep and visualize a dream? I think my mantra would be something along the lines of: "I noseplug in my dreams". Then I visualize a dream and fall asleep? And I assume I would do this before I go to bed too and also WBTB?

Anyway I think what I need to focus on now primarily is improving my Dream Recall and to say mantras (I usually say: "I remember my dreams perfectly and lucid dream") more often in my daytime. I will also try the MILD technique paired with WBTB. I'll brush up on MILD and let you know tomorrow how it all went!
Thank you and sweet dreams!