Unable to do anything

So, last night and the night before i've had lucid dreams, but not quite... i just realise i'm dreaming and stay super calm and try to focus and that used to work before, but now everything just fades to black and i wake up, after which i stay perfectly still and have an attempt at DEILD and that doesn't work either. 10 minutes pass and i fall asleep again, then the same thing happens again! And that's like 3-4 times, it really annoys me. My dreams have also lost their vividness over the last couple of weeks, i suspect that it's because i'm feeling REALLY under the weather lately and that affects my dream life, but i don't know...

If you dont already you might want to use a mantra like "I stay in my dream after I become lucid" or something. Or try a new technique like ssild.