For some background, I used to be really good at lucid dreams. If you want a bit more detail, look at my bio, (I think, my profile seems to hate me right now...) but I soon lost it. I've heard of the plugging your nose, or looking around and recognizing patterns, but the only thing that seems to work for me is telling myself "When I wake up, I'll be dreaming" But that only seems to work half the time, and when it does, it is really short or crappy dreams. So... am I missing something?