Hello. Alight, some background, I'm not someone who LDs a lot yet. The only Lucid Dream I've had so far was years ago. I had heard a bit about Lucid Dreaming when I realized I was dreaming, and tried to change things. I successfully changed the color of some objects, but no matter how hard I tried I couldn't do anything else, and my vision quickly got blurry and I woke up.

Lately, I've been trying to learn to master LDing. I don't have enough time alone to WILD, so I've been trying to DILD, but someone or something always get's me in a poor mood before I sleep. I can't even recount what I dreamed of, the first night I recalled a bit in the beginning but forgot before I could record it and the second didn't even think to record it. I think the poor memory of it might also be because of the weird way I get up, with many fallings back asleep and wakings up in a relatively short period of time (Upwards of 20 in a ~40 minute period).

So I'm asking, is it likely the mood that throws me off, or my wake up schedule? I have no power to fully change either, I don't think, but I could at least AVOID the former. The second isn't even of my doing.

Also, on a separate note, how long is it likely to take before the work pays off and I have a lucid dream? It's only been a couple of days, so I'm not getting impatient, but it'd be nice to know when.