Morty 1+ Month Of Mindfulness Has Got Me Nowhere

So I have been doing hardcore mindfulness for about the past month or or longer. I actually taste my food, feel the clothes I'm wearing and more. I question how I got here and why I am doing things and then do 2 reality checks to confirm.This has got me nowhere.. The closest thing I can think of to coming lucid was... My friend who is vegan was eating spaghetti with chicken and drinking milk and I'm like "hmmm that's weird, maybe he is eating around the chicken". That is about the closest I have come to questioning something in a dream.This is frustrating, yesterday I had a nap and did SSILD, I actually did become lucid for the first or second time ever due to this but woke up immediately. As soon as I became lucid my arms started tingling A LOT in the dreams... Almost painfully... And it scared me and I woke up. Clarifying that I'm almost positive this was due to SSILD and not mindfulness.I don't know.... Its just I've put so much work into this... And there is no way I'm giving up... It's just is there something I'm doing wrong?Also I keep a dream journal on my phone where I record anywhere from 1-5 dreams per night, 2 or 3 on average. I also meditate for about 20 minutes every other day. And I'm on this subreddit for 1-2 hours a day.

Thanks I think I've mostly been doing SSILD and DILD. I will look into MILD

Yeah but I think the lucid dream was directly and only because of SSILD. not too sure though. Alright I guess I will continue and try. Thanks man

Thanks for the response. I'm going to keep it up. My mind tried to trick itself. As soon as I felt my arms tingling my mind just said "wow that weed you smoked must have been " when in the dream I didn't even smoke, but then I was like "nope this is painful, I must be dreaming". Also, I know marijuana suppresses REM... I quit smoking weed on October 12th if that makes a difference.

Alright thank you. You must be right. If I had done SSILD without all the mindfulness I probably never would have had a dream in the first place. Also yes, I am thinking about things critically. Do you have any tips to stay aware/mindful while on reddit and watching tv because I find that the hardest time to do it. I get so distracted.

I've tried WILD and there is absolutely no way I can get past swallowing. I have tried everything from sleeping with paper towel in my mouth to jamming my jaw closed with a pillow and a million different positions lol. I always get close and then swallow.

So do you take 5 minutes every hour to do it? Or do you literally just do it all day? Do you think critically about things like "is that how it should smell/feel/look/taste? Or do you just observe? Sorry for all the questions but do you have any tips?

Thanks. So once you have the first one that's where it starts? It will only increase from here if I keep it all up?

Yeah, I didn't just quit for dreaming. I had MANY other problems. Are you on /r/leaves ? It's very helpful if you have troubles.

Yeah I feel like I've done so many searches on how not to swallow and tried so many different things that it's all I can think about during WILD. I will try just swallowing and movie on.

By wonderful results what do you mean? How many in the past 1.3 weeks?

I already had my dream count go up

Tried man

Wow. That is crazy. Did you previously have lucid dreams from another method? Or is this your first time trying