Trying to Lucid Dream,

I've done very little research, but the one video I watched said it's quite easy. I'll look into it more, but I'm try to lucid dream. I've been keeping a dream diary (a yume nikki, if you will), I've been making conscious notes during waking hours of if I am awake, I've been checking the time then immediately again to see if it changed, I've been looking at small detailed things like my phone, calenders, papers with words and images, the kinds of things one would not be able to focus on in a dream. Sometimes I just sit there and think to myself, "I am awake. This is waking life. This is the realm of wakefulness, and I have the agency to do whatever I want (within possibility)." I don't tell myself, "This is real, this is real life," because dreams are real. Just because something happens in your imagination doesn't mean it's not real. Your imagination isn't fake. Maybe what I should say to myself, "This isn't imaginary."

Hopefully with my dream diary, I will collect an awareness, a file in my brain on what kinds of things happen in my dreams, and when those kinds of thing happen again, I will get to think to myself " Is this a dream?". Hopefully with my mindfulness and mantras, I will finally catch myself saying so at a time that is obviously inapplicable.

Imagine to yourself now, whether awake or asleep, you still get to do things. I feel like there is not enough time in the day, and the day is filled with boring routines and laws of science and laws of man. Imagine going to sleep being the time inwhich you get to do what you want, no matter what it is you want. I feel like I almost lucid dreamed once, but this was a couple weeks before I made the conscious choice to start trying. I don't remember the dream :/ but I do remember a present awareness that I never have while dreaming. Dreams are almost just like memories, I never seem to experience them in the present. And even if I could do that, I will be happy with that result.

For now, I've been enjoying my dream journal. I've had some nice dreams, be they fun or foretelling. Perhaps I will share some here when I feel like it.