Thread: Who or what should we blame for the lack of lucidity ?

Interesting discussion, Steph and Sageous!
Let me try to contribute to the OP, bringing in thoughts from two expert LDers: Daniel Love and Robert Waggoner.

- Daniel Love asks: If we do the same technique at the same moment of the night on different days, why it works sometimes, and does not work others? He says the answer is Neuro-chemistry. He says that usually we do not take it into account and therefore our results are not consistent because we miss an important factor (He calls Psychology, Timing, and Neuro-chemistry the three pillars of lucidity)

- I read an article from Robert Waggoner about how to become an ultra-frequent LDer. He said from interviews he got to this point: One ultra-frequent LDer (Lucidous?) keeps asking herself "What was just I doing?", other keeps mapping his sorroundings and asking "Where I am?" (Billybob's tutorial on dream yoga, anyone?), and Robert thinks most naturals got into the habit of asking at all times if they were safe from nightmares. So according to him the key is the Lucid Mindset, asking constantly through the day a "Critical Question".

So going back to the OP, what is it? Brain chemistry? Lack of awareness?

PS: BTW, Daniel Love acknowledges also that those three pillars are so much related. Sometimes neuro-chemistry is the result of our psychology or emotions, and sometimes it's the other way around. Also our chemistry at the different sleep cycles depends of the time of the night or the hours we've been sleeping.