The method you're describing is WILD (Wake initiated lucid dream). Are you trying this right when you go to bed? They key to doing a WILD is combining it with WBTB, where you get up for a couple minutes in the middle of the night and then preform your WILD. When doing this you have to go straight from a waking state to REM sleep, during which dreams occur. If you try and do it right when you go to sleep it likely won't work since you first go into a deep sleep; a sleep stage where you don't have very many dreams (or at least can't remember that many). This is why many people combine it with WBTB. You do a little trial and error to figure out what your best time to wake up is (for many its 4-6 hours after they go to sleep) and then when you go back to sleep you will go directly into REM.
When you do figure out the correct time/find out when it's best for you to WILD you need to slightly focus on something in order to maintain consciousness, or, in this case, lucidity. If you don't focus on anything you just fall asleep normally and if you focus on something too hard you will not fall asleep. Most people focus on something going on in their own body such as breathing or heart beat, but it's different for everyone. What works for some might not work for you. This is why WILD is considered a more difficult technique, as well as sleep paralysis which many people find scary/frightening but you don't seem to mind it.
WILD like many other induction techniques is very personalized. There is no standard for it and it is almost entirely based on you, yourself. It takes some effort to figure out what to focus on, how much focus to put into it, and when to preform a WILD, but when you do figure it all out it is considered one of the most reliable techniques. Good luck and remember: Don't get frustrated if it doesn't work out right away
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