You may have no problem at all, TongoFu; just a bit more work to do.
Contrary to its name, and to what seems to be a popular misunderstanding in the LD'ing community, lucidity has nothing to do with vividness. Yes, once you are lucid you can learn to make your dreams more vivid, but that's about it; you aren't closer to lucidity because your dreams are vivid. In other words, you can be extremely lucid in the dullest of dreams, just as you can be not even slightly lucid in the most vivid of dreams, and vise-verse.
What is lucidity about, then? It is about the presence of your waking-life self-awareness in a dream; nothing more, nothing less.
I think the next step for you might be to work on that self-awareness, as well as the other two fundamentals of consistent LD'ing, which are memory and expectation/intention. Lucidity is also all about getting your head in the right place: recognizing dream signs and RC's will not work if you are not already slightly lucid during the dream (another myth in the LD'ing community, BTW, is that RC's make you lucid; they do not, but only confirm it). Until you have a proper lucid mindset, any techniques you choose to use to DILD or WILD will probably not work consistently.
So I suggest that you do two things to take the next step on your lucid journey. First, come to understand that lucidity has nothing whatsoever to do with vividness, regardless of what you've heard, and second, to start working on those fundamentals so that your mind is in the right place to have LD's, be they vivid or not.
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