Hi all, I've been working on developing my Lucid Dreaming for about a year now. When I started off I made a lot of progress really quickly with the DILD method (dream journaling and using the plug your nose and inhale technique, specifically). I probably had 7 or 8 awesome lucid dreams within the first 4 months. Then I went on a bunch of trips for work and was so exhausted every night I gave up on trying for several months. Now that I'm home again, for the past 4 months I've been trying very hard to get back into it and I just can't seem to do it. Every time I realize I'm dreaming I go right into blackness - not really waking up, but kind of a conscious floating in blackness and I just can't seem to fall back into the dream state. This has happend probably 10 times so far. Does anyone have any advice on what I may be doing wrong? Or something I might be able to try to get out of this rut? Thank you so much for your help!

Lodestone