Thank God, finally a little improvement. I’ve been trying for about a year and a half and have had only 2 LDs. But last night I just told myself before I went to sleep that tonight I was going to realize I was dreaming, and lo-and-behold there happened to be a digital clock in my dream. I was being driven around in my parent’s trailblazer and my mom was in the middle seat with me and my dad was driving us somehwhere and I looked at the clock and it looked like this: |28:57| it even had the dashes, how convenient, and I thought this is a dream this is a dream yay! I did it! My mom was trying to reassure me that it wasn’t but I knew it was so I tried to get out of that car but as soon as I took off flying upward I woke up. I don’t know, I don’t think it was just because of the clock that I realized I was dreaming because there’ve been many times when in dreams someone has asked me what time it was and I just smiled and told them it was 56:38 or something 
… But anyway I’m hoping that I can become more familiar with my dreams and not rely on anything but my will, because that’s all that seems to work for me. Maybe I can just learn to tell that I’m in a dream because of the texture of the reality instead of doing reality checks, but then again I guess that would be a type of RC. . . But the point is, that I finally had some success after all this time, so I’m happy about that.
Cheers,
ilovelucid