Valid point Gab. Sensitive types might be very discouraged by such a statement. On the other hand I always enjoyed the challenge of aiming for the top right from the start and don't really care about smaller milestones; but then, I wouldn't be making a topic asking about whether someone thinks I was lucid or not to be honest. Some people do need that extra bit of encouragement, though it is important that they understand the details regardless.

In the end you have to say what you see as the truth regardless of how they take it (in my opinion). If I were to say that I believed they were lucid, I would not be truthful. Same goes for the other side.