Congratulation on your bonus-adventure!!

You saw it already in the TOTM thread - but I wanted to make a few remarks on this latest LD of mine from two nights back.
I've long been moaning about less than realistic - or lets say reduced sensory environment in my LDs.
Like I didn't have all-round in depths surroundings - only where my concentration was, did stuff get, at times, very clear and vivid.
But all overall I had problems stabilizing and with vividness over the last weeks.

This one was different - the world felt stable and was full of intricate details, the colours were vivid, all came together highly harmonically.
That's why I held back on dream-control a bit, fearing a loss of quality, after not having it for so long.

What did it?
I don't know - but I have done for three days now very simple meditation efforts. Just lying down comfortably and observing my breathing and try to detach myself from all else concerning thoughts, perceptions etc.
Maybe 5 min. each time - always directing myself back, when I started to wander.
I like it a lot, and it is almost wondrous, how good it makes me feel, just trying for such a small amount of time.
I really hope, that is what did it - would be easy enough to keep up!

I have also a new appetite rearing up towards going out and sampling reality - it helps that spring breaks out round here at the moment!
Like - searching for beautiful, vivid detail-rich reality impressions for my unconscious to play with at night!
One could say this is mad - dreaming is for living, not the other way round - but I don't care - it will be good for me no matter.



Another thing - I have identified tons of dream-signs of which I keep dreaming over and over and then some.
Only in the rarest cases do I recognize them to get lucid.
I caught up with the toilets only by doing RCs almost every time irl. But almost all other dreamsigns don't occur in my actual life (any more).

Soo - and this last time, I recognized one, which I had dreamt of only once (knowingly) before: Digging a bit in the ground and finding a lot of finger rings buried there.
It instantly made me lucid, that I remembered having dreamt it before - so comprehensively, that I didn't need any RCs and as said - it was a great LD compared to my latest ones.
Not only long, but vivid and stable.

How come?
What can I do to pin down the others?
If I got lucid from lets say the most persistent 5 signs - I would be lucid every night and often in several dreams per night!
As said - I can't RC on them..

I tried it with mantraing over the day and in bed - when ever I see x I know that I am dreaming, and I visualize x with it - but it doesn't really work. Sometimes I wonder if this is because unconsciously I want to dream of these things - mostly the place I grew up at and some people I really miss irl, because they are geographically far away and contact is sparse.
Maybe I want them simulated realistically??