Continuing every day and night looking for the technique that works for me.
I write down 4-5 dreams every night and mostly from about 3-8 am.
So many babies and children in these dreams!
But as of yet, this does not trigger lucidity.

One particular moment it "felt" as if I was remaining conscious, but going to sleep and I thought, hey!, I'm awake in my dream now. But I realized I was still "watching" myself like in 3rd person proceed in the action. It was not yet me in the dream, I was watching myself be in the dream. And I could not shift that perspective.

I'm going to add another method that I heard explained on youtube. I will enjoy it - just like all the others and we'll see how it goes. Pick an object. Meditate on the object with the intention that when I see the object in my dream, it will cause lucidity.

I'm going to be more careful about my use of the word "wake up." If I continually say I will "wake up" in my dream, maybe that is working in my subconscious mind to mean waking up the physical body. I will intend, "become lucid" instead.

I didn't realize there were some differences in the astral traveling, and lucid dreaming. I'd like to explore these differences more.