Alright, I have tried this technique for the past 2 nights since I joined this forum.

First night: I set my alarm to 5:30 and went to bed at midnight. I remained positive that I was going to have a lucid dream for once in my life. I later set it to 6, and then to 6:30 because I stayed awake until 1. I suppose the excitement kept me awake. I later woke up around 2:40, probably because the broken sprinkler outside my window was just going off and it's really loud when it does. I thought it was 6:30 and instinctively got up, went on the computer, and when I looked at the time to check how long I had been up, I saw what time it was and was a little annoyed that I had woken up already. I went back to bed and slept right away, then woke up somewhere around 4. I went back to sleep, slept through my alarm, and couldn't remember even a shred of a dream. First night: FAIL.

Last night: I ended up going to bed at 2, so I set my alarm for 8. That meant that I had a half hour to fall asleep and still be within the range. Already tired from the night before, I fell asleep without trouble, thinking positively about having a lucid dream. I woke up at 8 from my alarm and was happy because it was going as planned so far. I got up, went online and checked my email and Myspace. Looked at the dream scenes, then noticed it was 8:13 and I went back to bed. I became very relaxed very quickly and tried to picture the beach scene and imagined myself there and doing what I'd want to do in a dream. I imagined some of the fantasies that I like thinking of sometimes, but my mind kept going from one thing to the other. I'd think of one thing, then that would lead to thinking of something else, which would lead to thinking of something else, but I didn't worry because at least I was still pretending to be lucid. However, I had a very difficult time falling back asleep. In dispair, I looked at the time and saw it was 10. Wow, 2 hours. I couldn't tell if I had fallen asleep during that time or not, and if so, I couldn't tell if I had any dreams or if they were just things I had imagined while concious. I couldn't fall asleep after that and now it's 11 and I'm pretty tired. I do believe I had one short dream, though. I was in my dad's office at work, though it was one my mind made up, and he was sitting at a desk along the wall and he had a crappy old DOS computer sitting in the corner with a really old printer hooked up to it. There was some DOS program waiting for him to put the next floppy disk in to install the drivers for the printer and I guess he didn't know how to do that, so I went over and messed with it and then woke up. Second night: FAIL.