My theory is that this whole deal of "inducing" lucid dreams is nothing more than a glorified form of the placebo effect.

Except for some specific methods (i.e. WILDs, Galantamine and others), all these "tutorials" do is convincing the reader that a lucid dream can be achieved through some procedures.

For example, anyone would execute, at most, a few hundreds of "reality checks" each month, and reality checks would then be expected to appear in dreams. Paradoxically, normal people perform other actions much more frequently during the day, like chewing food, typing or reading words and the like, yet those actions are seldom, if ever, done during a dream.

In fact, I doubt that it would be difficult to find individuals who found it impossible to achieve lucidity in dreams through the methods stated in this website, due to an unusual resistance to this kind of placebo effects (more commonly called "skepticism").

I rest my case.