I must relate to this. After being able to get 30 LDs in 30 days, I also entered a dry spell at the start of college. I've been trying to figure out what happened for years. I know how to dream lucidly. I preach it to others. I want it. Yet the motivation to work on it as hard as I used to is not there. At most I can maintain it for a few days. This is why I'm working on a lucid dreaming aid device/app. Maybe relying on an outside device would help me.
Here are some hints:
1) Change in diet, stopped taking supplements consistently(melatonin, B6), crappy college food -affected recall.
2) Taking a break from lucid dreaming forums. I went from posting daily to posting weekly to posting rarely at all. Over 3-4 months I almost stopped getting my daily "fix" of motivation, encouragement and most importantly pushed lucid dreaming to the back of my mind. Community matters !
3) Consistent sleep schedule matters. I started going to bed at all odd hours of the day, and it ruined my recall, I could no longer practice techniques after 5 hours of sleep, because it was light outside.
4) Weird as it may sound, I might've persuaded myself that my subconscious does not want me poking around and revealing the deepest secrets. Every time I want to talk to my subconscious mind while at high lucidity, I get a horrific dry spell that lasts for weeks. I've been explicitly kicked out of my mind twice for trying to talk to my subconscious.
5)Having roommates - prevented me from sleeping as lightly as I used to. I had to sleep very deeply to get any sleep at all with a bunch of night owls in the same room and next door....
The search continues. The problem appears to be pretty complicated.
PS. I wouldn't recommend getting a voice recorder. In my experience, my voice sounds very weak, it is hard to speak and maintain the dream in mind at the same time. :/
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