I tried to go to bed early, because the thought of waking up 5 am doesn't quite please me..8 30 to be exact......
I cleansed my mind of the bogus of the day.... and do my usual things visualize mantra.... and then I lay down... mantra some more... and visualize some more, and of course every now and then I go to the bathroom, but I also do the above mentioned when I do that, and not think of anything except lucid dreaming.

What I did was kept chanting my mantra, switching between 2
When I dream, I'll realize,RC become LUCID
I'll have a lucid dream tonight
I stick with the latter because the former was long and quite perplexing for me to say such a long thing.

I kept it up all night... till like 10... I don't know if it's me just doing mantras and can't fall asleep or my body's not accustomed to going to bed early, I try laying still, even switching position.
But I didn't sleep till 9 almost to 10 or just 10 pm


And then I woke up at 3, finishing a superb dream, 2:58 to be exact, then my alarmed rang a few sec alter when I woke up. Recalled the dream, wrote it down. my first long+epic dream before waking up in the night

3.... I did WBTB, same procedure as before I go to sleep, and then did mantras visualization and stuck with mantra for the rest of the night without stopping.... this didnt let me go to proper sleep. it would woke up and realize that I dont remember what I did 10 secs before... and I had like 7 dreams total in the night, fragments here and there, some i would remember, some I wouldnt, but in the end I recalled them all when I woke up
But I didn't get my due of sleep till 5 am.... so yes I was awake more or less for 2 dang hours.... the window was closed and it was hot.... I opened it... then as Usual I went to the bathroom a couple of times...
Though I didn't have a single LD.... course I got my 2nd epic dream. They were really nice, but I'd prefer a Lucid one.


So just sharing my night and a question, is what's keeping me awake me chanting mantras? and how would I fix this and get an LD.