Today I was sitting down and wondering why I haven't had a lucid dream. Every night I go to sleep with the intention of lucid dreaming. I read posts in this forum and other articles on LD for about an hour before I go to bed. Right before I finally put my computer down I watch a subliminal video which is suppossed to help induce lucid dreaming. I just didn't really understand why I at least haven't realized that I was dreaming without becoming lucid. Then I began to read my dream journal. As I was reading about the past few dreams I have had, none of them really seemed too far from something that would actually happen to me (except one where I was driving a boat on a trailer down the road, like it wasn't attached to a car or anything, but i was driving the boat down the road and I was being chased by somebody else on a boat attached to a trailer. and all the other vehicles on the road were boats on trailers). Generally my dreams were about me hanging with me friends doing the normal crazy things we do. This has frustrated me quite a bit, like how am I suppossed to realize i'm dreaming when my dreams are things I actually would do in the waking life. Is anybody else experiencing the same things? I know that I am going to have to practice more and do my reality checks more, which i have became kind of lax about.