I've been trying for nearly a year. And I really have been trying. Sure, there have been patches without recording dream journals, but I tried like a steer for the first 3 months and the closest I ever came to a lucid dream was on the first night.

About a month ago I really renewed my efforts and I've been keeping at it ever since. But regardless, after about 8 months of being aware of lucid dreaming and intermittent attempts, I've gotten no where. And here I see people who joined in September with 7 lucid dreams already

So I'm thinking that I've been failing for so long that I've doomed myself from the start. I simply do not expect to become lucid, despite all the autosuggestion and motivation.

I've tried working on different methods, for example the WILD, but I should have had at least one DILD so far...

So anyway, I'm quite certain that I've become so accustomed to failure my mind doesn't know how to gain success. Any ways around this?