Why is it easy and hard for me to LD?!

Whenever I take a large break from lucid dreaming, RCing, my DJ, and anything relating to LD, and come back later, I have a LD that night! But then it's super hard for me to have another LD. Why does this happen and does anyone else experience this?

Personally, I haven't experienced this, but I know people often do. The thing here is you are more likely to LD when you have had a break. What happens to you when you have had a break? You are more relaxed, slightly more interested in getting back into it, and probably more focused because of that too. These are all generally needed for lucid dreaming, so I suspect you are in between the "just there" and "nearly there" points. After you take a break, you shift into the right frame of mind, but then you slip a bit until you take another break. You need to learn to stay focused and keep your intent all the time. Try setting goals and tasks for yourself to do, to keep it interesting.

SO I guess I am close to another LD then since im getting back into it... But literally all I thought that night was tonight I wanna have a lucid dream. I only thought it once lol.

It's because you have it on your mind often and stress yourself out. When you are constantly trying and trying to lucid dream, you over stress yourself because then you don't lucid dream, and you lose confidence. Then you have low confidence and think you can never LD , but you still want to. Just be confident. Keep your intent subtly, don't over due, KNOW you don't have to over due it, because you are already a master lucid dreamer! Right? ;D

Ryan Hurd talks about this in his new book, Lucid Immersion Guidebook:

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Originally Posted by Ryan Hurd

Importance Of Idle Time
Surprisingly, many people will have their first lucid dreams after an intense
immersion, not during. This could be due to dream delay, a process in which
dream content reflects waking life after a period of time. Freud was on to
something with his concept of day residue, in which memorable parts of the day’s
activity are reflected in the dream the next night. However, researchers have shown
that the delay can range up to nine days.80 Social pressure can also inhibit dreams.
Cognitive psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, author of Flow, has much to say
about the importance of idle time for all creative projects. Taking time off from a
serious pursuit—be it an invention, a puzzle, or a quest to go lucid—allows
“simple rules of association” to form.81 He uses the metaphor of serial versus
parallel processing in computers: when we relax our intentionality, ideas are
calculated simultaneously, rather than in a logical step-by-step process. Somehow,
from this heap of confusion we discover new solutions and creative breakthroughs.
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To say it another way, the path towards conscious
dreaming is to know when to let your unconscious do
the work for you.

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"To say it another way, the path towards conscious
dreaming is to know when to let your unconscious do
the work for you."

But our, or at least my unconsciousness is an idiot.