I had two lucid dreams this morning.
However I know that having them has many causes I think one of them is: I stopped reality checks.
I don’t advise it to anyone but I think it has an effect with the right intention.
I found out that reality checks made me lazy. Made my mind lazy. I looked at my watch then looked at it again and my lucidity gone. Because I knew that I fulfilled my reality check duty. The same with other reality checks. However I use such things as remembering my awakenings.
Now I have to carefully watch every aspect of life. And my lucidity level increased because I know that I can dream right now. I told myself that rality checks aren’t reliable so I must be very very aware.
I know this is wierd but it works for me.
I started to use different techniques to become lucid.
Probably I will try more extreme things to become lucid.(Extreme because somebody could think that it will decrease my lucidity but it won’t.)
A lot of LD’s come from the effort and intention behind it, so this will work indeed if it keeps you better focussed on your goal: to LD.
A few months ago I tried to MILD for about a week where I would tell myself to wake up during the night with no alarm. And the week I tried it, nothing happened. But about a week after I stopped trying, it hit me and I have been waking up on average three times a night since.