What causes dry spells?

[trollmaster]

I'd like to know.

[Rozollo]

Complacency. Imagine you are trying to determine what color the sky is every day. You notice, that more often than not, it is blue, so after a while you stop questioning that. Then, it becomes just something you don't even think of. Dreams work like that. You start to test your reality diligently, then it is usually real-life. After a while, you stop testing so deeply or just stop testing. That's where you lose lucidity. With recall dry spells, it's partially the same thing: you aren't aware so you don't really remember everything.

[paigeyemps]

Change in lifestyle, diet, or stress could cause it too.

[Mr Sandman]

Million dollar question! From what I've read recently (in AYD) it's probably a combination of a whole lot of different possibilities, like paigeyemps says diet, lifestlye and all that jazz. Easy to fix tho, you just need to work out what it is for you.

[Shrek]

I think people stop dreaming when it becomes routine and they stop thinking about it. For lucid dreaming you have to constantly think about it every day, and I think that makes it a good habit to have. When people fall into routines of not thinking at all during the day I feel as if they are not alive, but really on repeat mode or autopilot. You have to keep thinking everyday, doing RC's and I guess bad dream recall should indicate to you that your thought process is starting to fall apart.

[faceonmars]

No one stops dreaming. Even if you don't remember your dreams trust me... you did dream. Lucid dreams are elusive at best. You can plan for it, desire it, work diligently on RC's and write in your DJ every night. But sometimes - most times- it will not happen. I have dry spells that last weeks. In my case this is caused by stress. I suppose my big brain needs serious downtime and just won't flip the LD switch during these stressful times. Winter also seems to be a bad time for me to lucid dream. Anyhoo, you have asked the 64,000 dollar question. If you find out, let me know!

[Sensei]

I think people stop dreaming when it becomes routine and they stop thinking about it. For lucid dreaming you have to constantly think about it every day, and I think that makes it a good habit to have. When people fall into routines of not thinking at all during the day I feel as if they are not alive, but really on repeat mode or autopilot. You have to keep thinking everyday, doing RC's and I guess bad dream recall should indicate to you that your thought process is starting to fall apart. Running on auto pilot is always a bad thing. I agree with this. This is why you need to be doing things so that you can become lucid tonight. Not just "have more lucids". In everything you do, make sure you are doing it deliberately, not just out of habit.