
Originally Posted by
DarkestDarkness
Okay, so it sounds like you have a decent natural ability to become lucid, though your reality checks and intent-setting seem to be important factors to me anyway. Your motivation for dreaming lucidly also sounds fine, really.
I think it would be worth keeping a small dream journal even if you only use it infrequently. At the moment especially, because if you want to be analytical as to why you're not realising you're dreaming as often as you were. It might help you notice some kind of pattern, like a recurring distraction or something else that is not making you question reality as often.
You say that at the moment your dreams are being strongly related to real life too and I'm getting the impression this isn't too usual for you, please correct me if I'm assuming too much. This will obviously depends on how you are as a person but this would make me think that something in your life might be demanding more attention than you're willing or able to give it at the moment, and in my mind it's possible that by addressing some recent stress, concern or problem, you might be able to return to something more typical for yourself.
It's also worth bearing in mind that even experienced lucid dreamers sometimes go through lulls for their lucid dreaming, so it's possible that this will go away on its own anyway. Considering that you just came off SSRIs recently and that they do affect sleep, your body may still be adjusting to not taking them anymore. I know it has been about a couple of months now, though the half-life of common SSRIs can be a bit long and these things do seem to vary between individuals anyway. This would make some sense to me if we consider that the medication somehow influenced your dreaming to be stronger or more vivid, as you might be basically coming off that anomaly at the moment and just still settling back to how you were.
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