Thread: My Obstacle That Needs to Be Defeated

I wasn't sure which board this should fit in, so I'll just post it in here for now. Anyway, this question of mine deals with pretty much everything else in this entire category, so I doubt it'll get moved anywhere for the time being. Well, since you can' diagnose the problem without looking at the symptoms, let me explain to you what I usually do when it comes to lucid dreams and dreaming in general.

Everyday, for the past few days, I've been doing reality checks +15 times a day. Even the most average events that occur everyday will make me do a reality check; I even do an RC when I catch myself spacing out. During these past couple days, I've been doing this and this technique, except I don't use an alarm clock and I replace the B6 tablets from the second technique with a banana. When I go to sleep, I lay in bed for generally 30 minutes, waiting for sleep paralysis to take over. When it starts to happen, I don't usually do anything to break it, but an occasional yawn with come and go, making it stop at a certain point, than start again later. It's usually around the 40-minute that I look at the clock, move my body to break the paralysis, then relax again. In a few minutes, I'm out.

When I dream, I'll dream some pretty surreal scenes, but they generally don't occur in locations that are beyond our current age unless I do something about it (there are few exceptions though). The problem is, I catch glimpses of lucidity during these first dreams, and then lose it again a couple minutes later. It's always after I lose lucidity that I doing cool things, like superpowers and whatnot. I wake up probably one or two times a night (because of my lucid dream), and then fall back asleep in a few minutes again. A few dreams here and there, then I wake up to start my day.

I think that my numerous reality checks during my waking life are dulling my sense of lucidity in my dream life. I've come to the conclusion that because of this factor, I quickly catch lucidity in my dreams, than lose it again later. What I want to know is how to attain lucidity on my own, keep it for as long as I can (as long as I'd like is much better!), and practice my ability to display dream control while remaining lucid. Can anybody help me with this? If there's anything wrong with what I'm doing (consciously or subconsciously), can someone tell me? I'd like to get better at lucid dreaming, and help is appreciated.

EDIT: I have a generally consistent sleeping pattern, and I am not a light sleeper of any sort. My dreams are quite vivid, and I remember them fairly well (I know more than just the bottom line of what happened). So, I doubt those are problems for me. Anyway, I just wanted to mention those quick facts. Also, I have been trying to get better at lucid dreaming for a little under a week now, and before then I had never had lucid dreams consistently for years. Hell, I couldn't even remember dreams from two nights in a row!