Also another factor may be stress: stress makes dream recall and lucid dreaming less likely. Part of it may be that you are trying too hard to achieve lucidity. You may want to try to relax for a while, spend some time not trying to push yourself to do this, and lucid dreams may happen if you do not try to achieve them. Another option would be to reduce your efforts to just something simple like doing a regular reality check, but without stress, and take on more of an attitude that if lucid dreaming happens great but it is ok if it does not for now.
While your child is not sleeping through the night may not be a good time to attempt lucid dreaming. I remember it well when my boys were not sleep trained yet, and all of us were barely functioning on not enough sleep and too much stress. I remember how cranky and impatient I was, and what a huge improvement in our life styles it was when my sons learned to sleep through the night. I do not know whether your child is old enough yet to teach him or her to sleep without waking at night? Also I do not know which techniques for teaching your child to do this you are willing to try or not - lots of controversy there among parents whether crying it out is appropriate or not (although even those who are proponents say that one should not do it when child is too young, and even those who initially are against it may wind up doing it in desperation ultimately when other techniques just do not work). What I can tell you is: it does get better, and once your child masters sleeping through the night, you may find that a lot of issues go away, including your trouble achieving lucid dreaming.
If your child is not a baby / toddler any more, and yet is waking up in the middle of the night, have you talked with the pediatrician about it? If not, I would encourage you to do so, and hopefully with help you will figure out how to resolve it.
This is the part I would focus on first, if I were you, the sleeping through the night.
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