Is anyone else having difficulties with their dreamwork, but lucidity used to come SO easily in the past? When I was younger, I was lucid more often than not. Had better control, better recall, more clarity, had more interesting dreams, NEVER had bad dreams.
Somewhere along the line that changed. =[ These days my dreams are often negative, hazy, I often can't remember much or anything after I wake up, I hardly ever become lucid and when I do, I tend to have trouble keeping control. This has been going on for years now. (I just recently came back to these boards and learned about dream stabilization/anchoring though so maybe that won't be an issue anymore)
Since my last lucid dream on July 30th, I haven't been able to become fully lucid and take control. It is soooo frustrating! I know exactly what I want to do next time.

I don't understand why it used to come so easily for me and now I'm having such difficulty. Has anyone else gone through this? If so, how did you overcome it? Or does anyone have any ideas or suggestions for me? Hopefully someone can help because it's driving me crazy. =|

Something is blocking me from progressing. The two times I have tried talking to my subconscious, it was very brief, strange and unhelpful. The first time I asked why I have such a hard time maintaining lucidity now and I was told "Because you're not ready". But how can that be when I used to do it all the time?? The second time I tried asking something like "Why am I having such trouble gaining control over my dreams, I was told it's because I'm not ready. Can you tell me why that is?" and as my subconscious started to answer me, the room got noisy and I couldn't hear the full answer. When I tried asking it to repeat, I ended up with a nonsensical answer. It was kind of funny actually, you should go read the dream lol.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.