I'm Unsure what to do Next?

Hey, well with my dryspell getting well in to its 2nd month i decided to stop moaning about it and try ou some induction techniques, WILD hasn't worked or me in the past since i find it incredibly difficult to get bac to sleep whilst being aware and i heard that MILD was fairly easy to do so i thought i'd give it another bash after my previous failure with it. I used BohmaNs guide and combined it with a WBTB, the first night i tried it i had a long vivid dream, and i have tryed it every day after that with no results what so ever, not even a dream to remember, nothing at all, my recall isn't too bad but i don't remember a dream and even if i did i doubt i was even close to becoming lucid, my dreams seem to convince me too easily, i never even get the opportunity to question reality, it could be because my dreams are really vivid.

Now i'm not giving up on the MILD, i must admit the first few days were hard but this morning i gave it my best shot so far but got nothing, maybe i'm being impatient but darn it i want another lucid dream! But also, every night i go to bed i put it firm in my mind that i will have a lucid drem that night, i wake up after 5 hours to do a combination of WBTB and MILD, and then try and wake up hours later feeling disappointed and annoyed at myself, i feel that these failures are giving me this negative outlook and at the back of my mind recently i can hear a voice saying "you've failed previously so why would it work now", well something along the lines of that, last night i really put emotion into trying and managed to beat that negative thought, but then this morning came doubt but i still persisited and then i awoke yet again to that disapointed feeling. I'm not going to quit, my persistance will still remain but i can't understand why nothing seems to be working or showing any sort of improvement since i've not been under alot of stress like previous days, these past few days have been quite pleasant.

This then lead me into the thought that maybe its possible that induction techniques simply do not work for me, i've tried alot of things and with alot of the techniques being similar i can expect the same results, it seems like a never ending battle between me and my dream world, i can never carry a thread of consciousness into the dream, and after a day of analysing my dreams and going back to them i could not find a reoccuring dream sign, i realise that for some people it comes much easier but like alot of things in my life lucid dreaming has been difficult and to be honest i'm not entirely sure what to do now, i'm unsure where to go from now. Thanks for any feedback if you can offer it :)

You are most certainly a DILDer. The best thing for you to do (from my point of view) is to start getting a better recall. You have to remember atleast 1 dream a night, or 6 dreams a week, and you must write them down. All of them in the best detail. Read them from time to time, and try and find similarities. Dreamsigns.

Find 3-5 dreamsigns, and remember them. Think of them, and everytime you experience something, that is just slightly similare to them in real-life, do a reality-check.

As you said, direct induction doesn't work for you.

If you combine dream-signs and MILD with usuall DILD, you should get lucid dreams pretty fast.

Thanks for the reply Marvo, i got my recall pretty good a few months back but had to stop my dream journal since i got exams and don't have time to write out all my dreams, i could remember on average about 4 or 5 dreams a night, but i'd have odd fluctuations, then it when downhill due to stress and i stopped it and i'll be starting it again in 3 weeks exactly because thats when my exams end, all my LD's so far have been DILDs and i wanted to get good at WILD or MILD because i heard you get better results, but if DILD is the one then DILD is the one, i'll just have to give it some practice, should i attempt a DILD with a MILD like you said and then try the WBTB/MILD just to keep it going, thanks for the help though :)

Do as I said, find your dreamsigns.

Next, get up after 6-8 hours of sleep. Read your dreamsigns and do a bunch of reality-checks. Do as the MILD technique says, think of lucid-dreaming and awareness all the time.

Then you just go back to bed and fall asleep. Try to keep lucidity in mind, but don't think too much of it.

Also, start your dreamjournal again, right now. If you have time to write on this forum, then you have time to write in your dreamjournal aswell. Just cut down on the details.