Thread: Can/should I practice LDing

Hi,
I've known about lucid dreaming and wanted to learn to do it for a while because I've heard it's very enjoyable and rewarding. I think it would be great for me to improve my awareness because I'm unsure about a lot of my feelings and desires and I don't tend to pay much attention to my surroundings, which has caused me problems like losing important stuff and overlooking details in my work.
I'm a full time university student doing 4-5 courses a semester and trying to maintain a distinction/high distinction average. I commute for over four hours a day and basically spend my life studying and doing assignments and practicing my instrument (It's a music degree). I also work and I'm involved in a few group projects outside university. Realistically, I have trouble remembering to do reality checks even when I'm not as busy and I have to wake up early and rush out the door every morning to catch my bus to the train station, so unless I'm on semester break I don't have time to write my dreams out in detail.
If I just did dot points for 5-10 minutes in my dream journal and did meditation or some form of awareness practice for 10-20 minutes each day, would my recall/awareness improve at all, even at a very gradual rate? Or is it not enough to gain anything from it?

If people on here have similar commitments and practice anyway, how do you manage?