Thank you. It sounds like you have found a good balance. I would love something like that but I doubt it would give me regular lucid dreams, although I like the "focusing on normal dreams" approach.
I am in a LD-friendly situation - working from home, can sleep as long as I want every day, no major stress in life (other than background depression), not too interfering family or work life).
For different parts of LDing routine:
Journaling/recall - I don't have any problems doing this every day. I am trying to prioritize sleep before recall though but I am not always successful. The usual dilemma during waking up at night - writing some keywords to get the dream out of my head to be able to sleep but risking waking up too much vs. trying to have it at the back of my mind through the rest of the night and risking not sleeping well because of it - that's still there but I think I am learning to manage it.
On days when I have to get up early, I just write keywords.
I don't do any multiple WBTBs just to recall dreams, not anymore.
I think I made a mistake gamifying this and calculating my stats every week. I was feeling bad when my daily average went under 4 dreams and had the need to do some "cheating" (WBTB, morning napping) to catch up. This week I am on 3 dreams per day but I do nothing and I am telling myself this is actually good as a low-effort background recall and I am OK with it. During bad weeks, it is usually fluctuating, like nothing one day and 7 dreams the day after.
Daytime routine - Honestly, I haven't found one I would like yet. I don't believe in RCs (at least not for me), and I don't like ADA. I tried a couple of other techniques but realized I just can't do them well - I am only doing them when nothing's happening, not when I do something active. I am considering doing just a simple meditation instead.
Night-time techniques - I used to do something every day. Different techniques every day. Some say this is wrong but I don't know. I feel like my sleep pattern changes when I do the same thing every day and it stops working. So far what made me lucid (I think) was really messing with my sleep but I don't like that. I don't trust MILD, I see it as a "low effort technique which maybe works once per week if done every day after a WBTB but do nothing for me". This could be wrong but I see doing only MILD and not even every day as too risky/wasting time.
Taking a day off for me means doing nothing at night. Just going to sleep normally and wake up normally (this still usually means some micro-WBTBs but without any technique... repeating my intention max... but I think even that gives me sometimes problems with sleeping). And recently, these days off have been a blessing. I think I really like to just sleep, without trying to do anything. But I think I won't get lucid dreams on such a relaxed schedule. Instead, I'll get back to my normal - which is semi-lucidity and 0 layer lucidity very often but no real lucidity. It's like this is my home/default layer and to get that awareness spike that allows me to go higher, I need to do more. (BTW I get lucid almost always spontaneously - questioning reality or doing/needing a RC is almost non-existent for me)
WILD - Trying once per week is reasonable and I like to do it like that. But I think I have much better chances at spontaneous WILDs. It's like the timing is right very rarely and never at the planned time. I still like the regular planned WILDs because they are at the moment my most reliable way how to get a DILD but they are exactly the "messing with my sleep" category.
In general, I am trying to trust myself more and trying to get to know my brain and my body better (and I've been doing good progress at that). But it can be frustrating when I see people who don't face the same challenges as I do or when I feel like most of the techniques, tutorials and guides are written for someone else.
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