If it worked fine before then just forget about this site and all the new stuff you've learnt about, and just let it happen.

Possibly, 'learning' how it 'should be done', labelling everything 'this' and 'that', has screwed you up.

Maybe you're trying to have have lucid dreams now whereas before they just happened?

That's my best guess.

Forget about WILDs and MILDs and DILDs etc.