Update: I just read the main page for the first time in a while. It talks about how using too much force to control a dream will wake you up. I think my use of too much force has at times made me closer to waking up without waking me up, thereby diminishing dream quality. The dream world was fainter than otherwise because I was waking myself up some, but not all the way, by using too much force/effort in controlling the dreams. I think changing that should bring about a revolution in my lucid dreaming.