Sleep 3 Hours, Wake. Sleep 3 Hours, Wake....

I have not seen this topic before and was wondering if anyone out there can help with it.

For the last three nights i have been focused on putting myself into a Lucid state while i dream and not before i sleep (like the WILD) . I have found much success in using breathing exercises while going to sleep and repeating to myself that i will wake up when i am dreaming.

Well, for the last three nights i have been unable to sleep for more than 3 hours at a time and continually wake up to see the time changed three hours ahead of the last time i checked.

This is getting somewhat annoying and i think it is interfering with my ability to LD. (since i cannot stay asleep long enough to LD) this morning i managed to have a partial dream recall from last night but it was as though i did not have the chance to experience my dream while i was in the dream state. It was like i could only experience it after i had awoke and recalled it.

Does anyone have any insight on this?

This sounds something like what I do. I'll after suggesting to myself to have a dream and then ot wake up when I do. I'll go for one week waking up at exactly 3:20 every morning. The dreams I do have will be very vivid after I wake.

This is where I started to lay still and concentrate on hte dream I just had and will fall back to sleep and have the same dream again. There by making it even more vivid. You could possibly use this to become lucid in the second round of dreaming.