It's good to take a break after a while. I've read many stories about people that stopped writing in their dreamjournals because they didn't want to do it anymore. And they all (well, most of them) got a lucid dream the same day

I tried to do the same, but with no effect. It's like my brain knows that I'm tricking him and he won't let me! Why does he have to be so smart (yes I call my brain a "him", he IS male )