Is there something in the wind? I too am finding myself re-focusing on achieving LD's. I recently have been using the SSILD technique. So far about 3 weeks in and one LD! For the record, that is only my second LD.

Also deal with the trade-off between thc and wanting a full dreaming existence.

I have built an Access db to record my dreams. This is my dream journal. I have columns for things like
Y-N was killed,
Y-N flight,
Y-N lucid,
Y-N known friends from waking life present,
type (planned, random, previous waking life unexpected prompt),
category (over 600 from a psych list found on the internet),
theme (kind of category groupings),
feeling,
how were problems solved,
color,
if there are recurring characters,
gift,
dream sign category,
dream sign,
sleep location,
did I wake up or recall later,
my comments,
and then the dream recall.

So far I have 1251 dreams recorded since 2003, but lost an entire year of recorded dreams due to a hard drive crash a few years ago.

Two recurring themes that I have not fully understood or explored are 1) many dreams about electric mountain bikes (I don't own one... yet), and 2) a place that is verdant green rolling hills and some canyons that reminds me of places like the Olympic peninsula or maybe northern Scotland.

I feel a bit of envy and sadness when I hear of others that easily have LD's, or at least have many more than I have. I understand belief is a big deal, yet struggle with the positive talk. Would love to hear others input.

The two books I like the most are from Waggoner and LaBerge , though I have several others also.