Greetings oneironauts.

I have been gone from this forum for a long time, but this year I have been trying to get back into lucid dreaming, and I think it would be good for me to re-engage with the community. How is everyone?

So far I have achieved some small amounts of success at getting lucid again (albeit only for brief moments), trying to follow a new routine to help make it more fun and exciting again, but I still find myself struggling with the same problems I had before. My dream recall remains pretty excellent, but in short, I feel I am not able to get lucid often enough to put in significant practice within the dream world. I feel I may have set up mental blocks for myself. Reality checks helped a lot in the beginning when I first started but stopped working for me a long time ago; they just disappeared from all dream activity (has this ever happened to anyone else?). Still, I have written up my frustrations to myself and created some ambitions for me to try and reach.

One thing I have learned about myself is that I seem to respond well to external direction. If someone gives me a task to do, that seems to activate a sense of importance and motivation for me, and a strong, almost dutiful drive to get it done (I have seen this in my working life as of late). Which is why I think it might be good to maybe team up with a few people, and we can become lucid buddies who can support each other, share guidance and create goals and tasks for one another. Lucid dreaming has always been a very solitary thing for as (as with many of my hobbies and life in general it seems). We could get a few people together to help each other benefit.
Anyone interested, please feel free to reply here and get a conversation rolling.

Thank you very much. Have a nice day.