What's the easiest way to ACTUALLY lucid dream (preferably vividly and for a while)?
I've seen a lot of techniques for lucid dreaming, but the one that I tried was reality checks, and it almost worked for me. I remember being in a dream and counting my fingers. After counting 6 fingers, my brain thought "is this a dream?", but then something, I don't know what, happened, and the dream just became a normal dream. I'm not sure this is what happened, but I don't remember anything in the dream after that, but I don't think I woke up after that happened, so this is just a guess. Did I do something dumb, is there a better technique than reality checks, (preferably with no WBTB, but if it's a good technique than I'll do it) and if that's not the problem, how do I prevent that weird issue with the reality check (the dream like stopping after counting 6 fingers) from happening again?