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Why is it annoying?
It is annoying because one's progress does not have a real feel to it. I can sit here and work for hours on a project then sit back and see that it is closer to being finished than when I started, with Lucid Dreaming I cannot.
It is annoying because it is so internal that nobody can help you with it.
It is annoying because you have so little control while you are dreaming, you lose all logic and that is infuriating beyond belief.
It is annoying because it is elusive, it has no clear obstacle, no clear thing to be annoyed with when you inevitably fail for the millionth time.
It is annoying because one cannot just sink more time or more resources into it.
And of course, it is annoying because it's so damn difficult for no good reason! There is no reason why on earth it aught to be difficult (this links into the it being elusive point) there is no solid blockade that prevents one from doing it, it is just something that doesn't happen. It's like why doesn't time go backwards? There is no reason why, it simply doesn't. Likewise there is no reason why I can't lucid dream, I just can't.
Why do you want to lucid dream in the first place? Do you really need to have the control of a lucid dream to achieve ur goals?
Personally, i found out about lucid dreaming last year and even tho i have only had 1 dream that i would clasify as lucid i remember more interesting dreams and am quite happy about that. There's definetly been a sense of progress there, for me. And even tho my rational side doesn't come up in dreams my non-aware dream self is learning dream control on its own, like i've flown 3 times in non-lucids now. I'm very optimistic that this will only improve and lucidity will improve along with it.
What seemed to be a turning point for me was setting up new dream goals and realizing that i didn't need to be dreaming at all to do my old goals.

And from what i understand you barely have to practice lucid dreaming, you just have to try be more consious while going about ur non dream related business and lucidity in dreams follows. Ofcourse WBTB a few times a week and practicing other techniques but these are done mostly while u are in ur bed anyway, no time lost.