It’s been over two month since I started this “lucid” endeavor. At first all looked fine and dandy. Dream recall went from zero to 1-2 dreams a night and after less than month without any serious effort (apart from reality checking) I got my first lucid dream. It wasn’t even that short as it is in many cases and I thought “it’s not that difficult”. Well, it’s over a month since then and things are not going that well for me any more. Dream recall is giving me real troubles. Now I have conditioned myself to trying to remember a dream whenever I awake – but often I just lie in bed in desperate effort of trying to recall anything. Even if I recall something, it’s usually short fragments. Real long and vivid dreams are a rarity for me. I continue to do my RC’s and can’t even look into mirror without making it one (RC I mean). Despite that I’ve never executed RC in my dream. On two ocassions my dreams contained thoughts about lucid dreaming, even had one false awakening where I got up and went to write down my dream. But still no lucidity. WILD also seems to be lost case for me - I never get even hypnagogic hallucinations. I keep LDing on my mind most of the time and in the evening I read EWLD and this forum. And I honestly look forward to every night in hope that now IT is going to happen.
Well, enough of this pointless ranting; I just wanted to speak out my frustration
Take break don’t even try doing anything just get a weeks nomal sleep, then try again, chances are that your trying to hard maybe over crowding the situation. its a hard thing to master too do’t beat yourself up about it you’ve done the hard part getting your first one out the way, sometimes they are few and far between just let them come in there own time.
Stay positive ! Let your LD’s happen. Keep a DJ. Try WBTB + MILD (as you wrote that you have troubles with HH’s in WILD), in WBTB think only about LDing stuff peek: at DJ, or at EWLD). Believe that you can do it - because you can. Word about RC’s - how often are you making them? The more the better, and question your reality while doing them.
Remember that motivation is biggest factor in LDing. My xmas break has ended at thursday, and from that day I did not had ANY dream I could remember. I got some fuzzy short dreams from next day, but yesterday I got a blank hole in my head, totally no dreams. But after that total unability to recall, I got motivated and did loads of RC’s, MILD, and suggestion stuff. And there goes a LD. Motivation is best way to get LD, remember !
Eventually, if that’s really bothering you, you can take some time off, a break, until it will get better bad times. Sometimes, it’s good solution to problem
It’s normal for me wake up in the middle of the night. When I remember a dream, I go to my room and make DJ entry.
I do them some 15-20 times a day plus whenever I see mirror; sometimes also I do the text RC. Also I believe I do the RC’s the right way. I got my only DILD through a RC, so I think I have the idea what makes RC work.
I thought that my dream recall was bad because I need to get up quite early to work, so I put my hopes on two week holiday in around Christmas and New Year. Unfortunately it did not help at all.
peek: at DJ, or 
at EWLD). Believe that you can do it - because you can. Word about RC’s - how often are you making them? The more the better, and 