I certainly can relate to that - usually I'm good with my sleep routine, but lately I ended up letting blogs and the odd videogame encroach on my time before bed. It doesn't seem to completely prevent me from having lucid dreams, but it cannot do my sleep any good.

Last night however, I did have a lucid dream success. I decided that I needed to be more disciplined about my sleep routine, so I made sure that my PC was off by 11:30. I turned in at around 12:30 and fell asleep, no binaural beat recordings or anything like that.

I woke up at 3:30am and attempted a WBTB, staying up for 15 minutes to write down my dreams. My dream recall was really vague, I could just about remember dreaming about people I knew and that was it. I think I only woke up because I needed the toilet, and the REM cycle was long gone. So I spent the rest of the time just reading a magazine.

I went back to sleep and I did end up having a few lucid dreams - they were quite long too. I remember interacting with various DC's, but I completely forgot to practice the stabilization techniques or the February TOTM. Hopefully if I keep up the discipline with my sleep routine then I can achieve lucidity more frequently, giving me more opportunities to do what I set out to do.