I need help with my Dream signs

Ok so this is how i got into lucid dreaming, one night while fending off hundreds of zombies with a baseball bat, I thought wait why don’t i have my dads shotgun (as i do in all my dreams) and it just appeared and i thought that doesn’t happen in real life and i became lucid. Only long enough to blast a zombies face in then i woke up. Lately i have been having trouble doing reality checks when i see my dream signs, if i set the alarm for every hour and checked every hour, would that work???

Yep, it would work. As long as it becomes a habit and you start to do it in your dreams.

Thanks sorry for the life story though lol.