My sleep schedule is somewhat variable, but there is one constant in that I can't stand being awake in the early morning, that is, from sunrise to about three hours afterward. I think it's just the nature of my circadian rhythm, but inevitably if I'm forced to be awake during that part of the day I'll feel ill and out of sorts, no matter how much sleep I've gotten.

On worknights I'll usually go to bed around 1 or 2 am and sleep until 9 or 10 (luckily I don't have to leave for work until noon). On my days off I'll typically stay up an hour or two later. I'm always on the computer right up until bedtime, either doing work-related stuff or playing video games, depending on whether or not it is a work night. It doesn't interfere with my sleep. There's a trick to falling asleep I'm not sure how to describe in terms other than "letting go." I find that part easy. The hard part for me these days is keeping a measure of attentiveness turned on in order to observe the process.

I don't drink much water during the day, but over the course of every night I'll drink at least a liter, which means I wake up naturally around 3-6 times a night. Usually I go right back to bed, but if the conditions seem right (just had a vivid dream, motivated, sun's not up yet) I'll stay up longer for a proper WBTB (anywhere from 30 minutes to well over an hour) and make a WILD attempt. If I'm feeling lazier I might just make an intention to DEILD or set up my silent alarm to try for an EILD. I get the best results out of my WBTB if I spend it reading about lucid dreaming or writing in my DJ, and I think it also helps to do a few minutes of seated meditation right before I go back to bed. There have been periods when I meditated more regularly during the day, but it didn't noticeably affect the frequency or clarity of my LDs.

Sometimes my job gets super intense, to the point where I'll crash early ("early" for me means any time before midnight) and wake up around 3am to do a few more hours of work during the middle of the night, then catch what remaining sleep I can after the sun rises. Curiously, times like these have produced some completely unintentional and amazing LDs--if rather inconveniently, since the last thing I have time for on such occasions is writing lengthy dream reports! I've found that my actual motivation for LDing on any given night is largely conditioned by how much time I anticipate I'll have for writing up my account afterwards, since that usually takes at least an hour at minimum, usually longer.