Something that always inspires me when I'm losing interest is remembering the very first conscious thought I had while in a dream.

I was (dreaming) sitting in the passenger side of a car when I became lucid for the first time. Nothing in particular turned me lucid, I had just been trying to pull it off for a while, and I realised this wasn't reality. Everything started to fade slightly, but I remembered a good stabilisation technique was to grab and feel objects. Looking about the dashboard, I couldn't see anything to pick up. Then I noticed there was a cassette tape in the car radio. All I had to do was press the eject button and feel the tape. This is the best part. I lifted my arm to the button, and my mind was blown. It was a conscious, waking-style decision to move. I made it there and then, because I was mentally there at that moment. My awakened brain told my arm muscles to move- just as it would in real life, and I felt it as it happened. It was so realistic and I was so self-aware that I found it hard to believe I was still in a dream with this level of conscious thought. I thought of it not so much as being asleep, but being awake, in a simulation. Like living it rather than dreaming it. It's such a simple action that I smile at it now, but the effect it had on me was profound.