Welcome Korrissias!
I hope you achieve lucidity this time, just don’t stop trying, ok? 
By the way, about creating characters and places, of course there are a lot more threads about it out there, but you should take a look at the Lucid Home one, which you’ll probably find very nice, since having a Lucid Home will help you also gain that thing you call ‘direct access to your subconcious’. 