You can test how strong your intent is by taking inventory of how many times your waking up and falling back to sleep at night and what your intentions are when falling back to sleep. If you wake up 4 times during the night and every time even though drowsy remind yourself how important lucid dreaming is to you with a short thought about it. If you do that consistently through the night 1 or two things will more then likely happen. You'll either walk into a dream lucid or at some point during the dream realize your still in your bed. Or during one of your awakenings you'll become aware of vibrations at which point you can have an outer body experience. :-) peace.