I finally had an LD after a LONG time (it felt like). Sorry so much complaining.

Anyway, in addition to other things that I tried (listed in thread "Lucid dreams have stopped" if anyone wants to know), I did something else; I don't know whether this will be helpful or not. The other day, I was thinking about how DS's are weird because they are recurrent in dreams, but not in real life (seeing old friends, being at an old school, etc). and things that I do all the time don't happen that much in dreams. I was thinking I work out a lot, usually in the evening not long before bed, but I never dream about lifting weights. That night, I dreamed I was at a gym and I had a long, vivid, non-LD. So I did it again yesterday, I thought I dream about dogs all the time, why not horses? That night I dreamed about horses and became lucid. These were just really random passing thoughts, I didn't dwell on them, I wasn't even trying to use them for help in LD. I've got another one for tonight but I don't want to think about it too much and ruin it. These are mini-incubations and they maybe they work better for me than the big-time incubations. (Unfortunately, it is like trying not to think of an elephant!)

And, like everything else, once my subconscious figures out that I am tricking it, it will rebel again probably and not let me LD.