Very interesting. I do think you should keep up with them... and make sure you try more than one or two of them. Maybe four or five, and rotate them.

I am not a good LDer... but realization is not my problem. I went through a phase where once I realized I was in a dream, the realization and the excitement was too much, and it broke the bubble. I may be wrong (like I said, hardly an expert), but I think when you go to sleep with a goal for a LD, and you realize you've made it, that acknowledgement of success bursts the bubble. I think you have to want it less. Be calmer and more easy going - in life and in dream.

I would continue to try and do things to raise your alertness in everyday situations. Checks of things you're mind cant process in sleep (like reading, leaning against walls, looking at your hands, etc). Expect that one of these days, you're going to get the "wrong" result. And don't freak out when it happens. After all, the whole reason you were doing it is because you expected it. If you freak, you wake.

Thinking about this, I feel developing a tendancy towards being self-conscious about ones flaws (or remembering/relating to times when that was the norm... the awkward pimple in junior high, for example) is a good way to develop effective reality checks. Maybe this is why I've never had this problem. I'm a pretty self conscious guy. Acne in high school. Not great body image. A mother who said everything smelled bad. I was constantly checking myself. Now I have the confidence and feeling of relative potence I lacked then, but I still keep an eye out, have very grounded ideals for what it real, and what is clearly a dream.... and I just roll with it.

Ok, probably rambling. Hope you get some help from any of this.