3 non starts then just an image

Date: 1/9/2019

I had read somewhere that one way to lucid dream was to repeat “I will know I am dreaming” I tried that. Kept repeating over and over in my head until I started to drift off. Then I’d wake up jumping. Like when you die in a dream those jumpstarts that kick you out. It happened 3 times then all I finally got a dream and all I can remember is a friggin mask that only cover the eyes, white and cream with lace and dripping with pearls and me reaching towards it.