Everyone has their own ways of reaching a lucid state in their dreams so i encourage you not to give up after trying only a few things. Many things in a dream that would normally seem completley out of this world, seem just fine. I've reached a lucid state, and in the middle of doing an RC with my alarm clock, i was sort of warped into a different room in my house...but in my dream it all felt completley normal, and i quickly lost lucidity.

Some techniques to help you reach lucidity-

Make Reality Checks a habbit, not just a once in a while thing. Also try and structure them so you do an RC (of your choice), during or after an event that is likely to repeat itself in a dream, (or you have dreamt of before). So for example... If you dream about driving a lot, everytime yo uget inside a car, do an RC. Maybe when you turn on your signal, do another RC, so now the car has become a dream sign, and if you dream of it youre more likley to question and do an RC, therefore becoming lucid.

Tune in your senses during the day. Notice objects...how they feel, look..the shape of them. Do this with anything and everything throughout the day. This can not only help you gain lucidity, (an object might look warped or out of proportion in a dream), but it can help your memory and dream recal.

Start a dream journal. This can greatly increase your dream recal, and make it easier for you to remember any lucid dreams you might have, and it might even help you gain lucidity. If you see a pattern in your dreams, such as dreaming about cars a lot, then you can adapt your waking life techniques around this to help you become lucid.

Try different techinques to becoming lucid. http://www.dreamviews.com/forum/inde...showtopic=3243 Here is an acronym finder/def forum, and there you can find tutorials on many different techniques to becoming lucid. I also recommend the FILD (aka HILD) technique. http://www.dreamviews.com/forum/inde...showtopic=5270

Relax and dont become frustrated. Know that you WILL become lucid. Its not a matter of if, its a matter of when. A dream is all in your head, so any doubt you have is going to be translated into "failure". Hope this helps you out