Hey there,

When I read my post, I cannot help but immediately think of three things:

- You're too impatient
- You're too eager
- You're too hyper-sensitive



Maybe I'm wrong, but going over your post, it seems to me like you want the skyrocket to instant lucidity, and everything else isn't good enough. In my experience it doesn't work like that. Lucid dreaming is about exploring your dreaming life. It takes time, it requires you to take an active interest in your *entire* dreaming life, and above all it requires you to find a good balance.

Give it some time, a week is really nothing at all when it comes to lucid dreaming. Learn to appreciate and pay attention to all the dreamsensations. Ideally, you should be able to go to bed with a sort of 'yay, I can go dream again', mindset. Not with a 'ahh, now I have to lucid dream or it's a failure!' mindset. Find a balance between waking and dreaming. Don't exhaust your waking hours with so many different techniques and reality checks and what not that it becomes a chore.

Don't be fooled by the myriad of posts here that promise instant garantued succes. Learning to lucid dream is a lifelong process.

Just my 2 cents,

-Redrivertears-