This probably isn't helping is it?

I was steady in my first month here in terms of methods of LDing. For instance the RC's, the dream journal, techniques at nights. In the past month in my dry spell, I've been less committed to it. I want to do it and I haven't given up.

But my RC/day count is down, I have a habit of just writing little notes consisted of a few words about each dream so I can write about the whole dream before I go to bed the upcoming night, and I haven't really tried any techniques in a while, even when I wake up at 4 am.

I guess my lack of LDing can be pointed in the direction of these things. Either this is just a lack of confidence, I'm just forgeting, or I'm not caring anymore w/out actually knowing it.

SUMMARY of last paragraph: I want to do this but it isn't working and I think I only have myself to blame.
That's probably it right?

I've found out from other sorts of work like this, as well as things like learning new languages or musical instruments, that such dry spells seem to come about naturally or inevitably. They seem to go through cycles for me. Doing the work can feel excruitiating. However, if you stick with it, even in a very mechanical manner with little success, you often come out the other side, not only with a stronger commitment, but achieving substantially greater success than prior to the dry spell.

I guess "stick with it" seems like the obvious thing to say. But I think seeing the lack of interest or enthusiasm as an inevitable cycle and one that brings greater succcess afterwards can make it easier to get through.

try changing your approach. clearly it's not a lack of interest in lucid dreaming...maybe you can find different ways to practice that are more interesting for the time being, and then go back to the original methods.

Everyone has a dry spell once in awhile, but I think that perhaps the reason that you are having a dry spell is because it seems like you have become unenthusiastic about lucid dreaming. You need to become excited about it and do all of the things you did in the beggining to achieve your lucidity in the first place.

Well the last few days have been full of wonderful lucid and non-lucid dreams for me; after a period of nothing. These things happen. Don't worry about it. Your unenthusiasm could definetly play a role. Just try and get back into it, as if you've heard about it anew. Go to bed excited about the fantastic things you are to experience. Read about lucid dreaming, read other people's lucid dreams. Get back into the wonderful world. :D

every time my watch beeps (hourly) i do a reality check, but i've realized that with reality checks, it can become passive, sometimes RCs can become a habit, you must be AWARE OF YOUR AWARENESS, or it can become passive and not active in a sense! - i end up doing that sometimes...

Backtracking seems to be the most helpful - "how did i get here?"

you can take the utimate or extreme and be completely try to pretend that every second or hour is your last and you must 'remember', be aware of, and feel everymoment, and at the same time ask yourself if you really are in an elabarate dream that seems so real or not ...

(when i became so lucid in dreams and in waking life, i ended up in a dream that was so real - mentally i couln't do any RCs or anything, i thought i was both in a dream and waking life at the same time - it was so vivid! - i knew i was dreaming but it was so real that it almost scared me)

what seems to also help me is if i then realize i am not dreaming, then i imagine that i am, what would i do - something/anything SPONTANEOUS! :D - this can also help if lets say you are terrified of giving speeches in real life - get over a fear in real life by pretending you are dreaming --- don't make the RCs a habit or passive - get into them mentally and everything and imagine what you'd do right now if you really were asleep - maybe part of the problem is that - what is happening to me right now - are passive lucid dreams - they just happend "i'm lucid" without really EXPERIENCING it! :jester: - or i did have a lucid dream but it happened early in the night and i don't remember them - or i simply didn't tell myself to remember this lucid dream in the morning

i hope this helps