I've lucid dreamed about two or three times in my life, all coincidental and with no train, and I've recently become really eager to experience this again.

I've been keeping a dream journal and realized - more so then before - my dreams are all very similar; I even have settings that I go to all the bloody time (like this one city that looks the same every time).

I was wondering if perhaps drawing the scenes/people I meet and go to along with documenting the dream would further instigate a lucid dream. Many scenarios in my dreams are so consistent that it's making me really irate I won't just notice it I'm dreaming!!

Does anyone have any ideas on this concept of drawing, or any other techniques to recognizing when you're dreaming if your dreams are all really similar?