As I despaired earlier about being worried that I may never achieve this (even though I am only on my fifth day), a thought occurred to me: surely other people have faced this. It obviously takes time and patience (for most, anyway) to be able to become lucid at will.

So what I wonder is this: who out there - who has since been able to have lucid dreams - reached points where they never thought they would be able to do it? Or where they were almost ready to give up?

How far into it did you feel like that? If you ever felt like that, at what stage did you overcome that and feel confident that you would achieve this goal?