I have run into a weird variation of the dreaded dry spell. I get lucid fairly easily (DILD at the moment), but then I don't do anything with it. I can stabilize if necessary, and I even remember goals, but I just... don't do anything.

Here are two recent examples:

1) I notice a jump-cut in my dream and say to the people behind me, "... and that means that this is a dream!" I'm lucid at this point. The two people with me look a bit wobbly, and because I like to use DCs to talk to myself, I say, "Take it easy, this is just a lucid dream. Calm down, so we can get started." I then say, "I don't know if I'll need the two of you, but just tag along, and we'll see." Then I look around and see the building I want to go to... but just start wandering around, soon losing lucidity.

2) Something tips me off, and I become lucid. I remember that I have a problem with keeping my focus, so I say to myself, "Right. I have a goal. I'm going to find an easter egg." The dream isn't unstable at all, but for some reason I drop down on the floor and lick it until I lose lucidity.

Just adding, in case you didn't know, that the floor-licking is a bizarre but pretty brilliant stabilization technique that Nfri came up with. But the point is that the dream wasn't unstable at all. I knew what I wanted to do, but then felt compelled to do something - in this context - completely pointless.

For some reason I'm currently having trouble hanging on to high lucidity for very long. I really wanted to find that easter egg too. I love participating in TOTM, so it wasn't lack of motivation. I had thought about it a lot while awake.

Any ideas for how to get back my focus so I can have fun in my LDs?