Thread: 1 year, not a single LD

I'm getting the impression that you don't feel excited, just frustrated.
That's bad.
You need to kindle a genuine feeling of pure excitement, and get rid of all frustrations.
If you smile with delight every time you think of your future lucid dreaming goals, then you have the right attitude to it all.

I sometimes say that these things are kind of like flirting - it is only fun and rewarding if you do it in a playful way without worrying so much about it, and it only becomes stressful if you expect too much out of it every time you do it.

I was on and off about lucid dreaming for two years before I got my first real lucid dream, sometime in late October 2011 - and from that point my lucid dreams suddenly became very frequent, and I would have 2 or 3 of them a week for several months.
I'm still trying to figure out what I did at that point that made everything so easy, but I believe some aspects were that I went to bed early (usually around 9 PM), kept a dream journal, and always did a couple reality checks everytime I woke up, which made it easy to catch False Awakenings.

Speaking of that, I have actually noticed that my lucid dreams have almost always started out as False Awakenings;
maybe you are the same, but you just keep missing them since you mistake your False Awakenings for short real awakenings.