Thread: 2.5 years without a lucid dream, would love your help!

Don't get too hung up on performing techniques, they are just different ways to become lucid that happen to have names.
In short, the main goal in any technique is to be more aware and prepared for the next dream.
I think that this is what you should concentrate on - what can you do in order to bring your questioning attitude to your surroundings into a dream?
Try experimenting with different methods, and try out techniques if you feel like it.

In my opinion, one of the simplest "techniques" is to just decide for yourself to realise that you are dreaming the next time you are dreaming - in other words, you prepare yourself during the days and then fall asleep with the intention to go "hey, this is a dream!" when you start dreaming.
I am not sure what kind of technique this is, but it's probably MILD (Mnemonic Induction of Lucid Dreams, a technique where you use your intention and prospective memory to remember to become lucid).
The lucid dreaming researcher Stephen Laberge used this technique a lot for three years for his dissertation study about lucid dreaming, and he managed to go from about one lucid dream oer week to one almost every night in three years.
I think he also used other methods as well, like writing down his dreams in as much detail as possible so that he could more easily remember his lucid dreams, always looked for signs that could mean he was dreaming etc.