Egad, I don't get it. Before joining here, I had three lucid dreams, and they were at least a year before joining. Then about a month ago, I had three lucid dreams in 13 days of each other. But since then, nothing has happened.

I've been reality checking whenever I think of it, and now that's come to about four times a day. Pathetic, yes, but it's something, and habits like that aren't easy for me to start when most of my day is concerned with high school and chores. Just about every night, I've been attempting FILD, and while I must say that the sensory I get is quite something (sliding, spinning, eyes occasionally spazzing), I never quite make it to the lucid stage.

Now it could be that I'm trying when I'm not tired enough. I unwillingly hit the sack at 9:30 on school night and 11:00 other nights, and sometimes I'm tired but there are many occasions where I'm laying in bed until 10 or later trying my brains out. Eyes closed, fingers ever-so-slightly twitching, occasional involuntary twitch of the foot, all that stuff. Then nothing.

I've recently taken it upon myself to master the WBTB. For all the effort that requires, I actually had a slight increase in dream recall (yeah, four dreams a night...) and it's OK.

For all this effort and such little result, it's getting annoying and exhausting. I never want to quit my efforts in lucid dreaming, because with all the time I spend asleep in life (supposedly a third), I want to be able to put it to good use somehow. But at this point, it's starting to look a little futile.

Any advice/questions/suggestions?