Myself, I'm more into MILDs (I am dreaming, I am dreaming, I am dreaming) or WILDs (counting, hypnagogic images) but my success rate is like 1/200
I'm better at waking up in a dream by doing reality checks in it.
I have three reality checks that I do multiple times daily :
- Triple checking time digital clocks
- Triple checking my fingers / my hand
- Triple checking random texts
I did a few lucid dreams and everytime I successfully triggered them, it was because either :
- Double checking digital clocks gave me different times (first look gave me 11:35 second one 23:11 for example)
- The time was conpletely bogus like 45:98
When I realize that, then suddenly, it feels like everything is collapsing, like there is a gravity problem and everything feels "new". The people around me look at me differently and the way I feel them is different too. I can then control my dream (flying, passing through walls, jumping at unreal distances...)
You can use this android app (
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.did.luciddream&hl=en) to set alerts in order to do your reality checks.