Et cetera.

These are the thoughts of one sad dreamer as he pondered the history of his lucidity.
And then... he realized something. His mind was good, surprisingly good, at resisting.
Seep.
Caffeine.
Hypnosis.
Everything.
Including his subconscious mind, which he realized had been doing an astoundingly good job at keeping gullible and assumptious and NOT LUCID for a time span of A WHOLE YEAR.
Of attempts, that is. Only three have worked.
"Is he... it... they[?] anything independent? Could I....

threaten

...my subconscious?"

The boy-to-be-a-man leaped to his feet and shouted "YOU'RE ON! NO MORE SLEEP FOR YOU!"
He snickered and thought to himself (literally) 'Let's just see who lasts the longest, shall we?'

Well, mind layers...

......let the games begin!