Thx, Zoth,

Yes I guess there are just too many other factors at play. After examining my DJ of lucid dreams, and trying to find any sort of causal link between certain activities and how I became lucid in those dreams -- I could not point to any sort of pattern or process.

But that does make sense about LD anxiety. This may be the case now that I think of it. For sake of comparison, I have often found it difficult to sleep purely because I had anxiety about not being able to sleep, which almost inevitably meant that I couldn’t, whereas if I didn’t really care, it was suddenly much easier. So yes now I’m thinking there could be an element of this -- probably putting too much pressure on when you will attain an LD etc., like you say. Probably best to just keep up the practice and not expect too much.