I have seen that having lucid dreams takes a lot of work for some people, so since i joined this site. I started thinking what do I do that might be different, that allows me to have lucid dreams. So I would came up with a few things:

strangely this one does not involve actual sleeping, and I don't think its even meditating, so I would call it active imagination. I was doing this for as long as I could remember, which is a very long time, so don't fret if you don't get it in one go or two.

when you start,close your eyes and just allow something visual to popup. then try to manipulate that object, change color, make it disapare, move it. It is easier if something pops into your mind, that for you to create it.

I was a weird child now that i think about it, you know those colours you get when you look at bright lights. I hate those lights with a passion and for some strange reson I always use to look into some kinda bright light. So i use to close my eyes and the colours were still there, thats when I started to try to remove them mentally.

reply if you get through with this one.