It was one of the first techniques I tried, so it's been just over three years for me.
It really become habitual, something you just do while falling asleep. I find that, even if I'm not focusing on LDing during that particular part of my life, I'm still thinking about it as I fall asleep. At the moment, I'm using full mantras since I'm actively trying to achieve to lucidity, but a few months ago, when other aspects of life came up, I would just think "lucid dream, lucid dream" over and over. Did it work? Not really; at least, not as well as a full mantra.
It's not really stressful since it only becomes stressful if you're dying to have a lucid dream. By the time it can become stressful, it's very likely you've become lucid before (~several months, at least). But for the most part, if you don't lucid dream that night you just shrug it off. Oh well, maybe next time. It also requires such a minimal amount of effort that any stress it causes is very minute. Because LaBerge was studying lucid dreams, and had a larger goal to achieve, it was likely a bit more stressful for him, but he was just collecting data. If it didn't work, that's the life of a scientist and you change something and try again. For the everyman who feels like trying lucid dreaming, no, it should not be stressful at all.
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