Check some of my recent posts, I go into detail in how I've successfully figured out how to fall back asleep in the middle of the night when there's not a lot of that "drowsy" feeling easily waiting for you. I understand your frustration, you want to sleep and dream and make progress on lucid training! Me too. I had many nights where I just couldn't go back to sleep in the middle of the night, and it was very frustrating. I think that anxiety, even if you don't feel it directly, is lurking there somewhere.
In (very) short, I focus exclusively on relaxing, not sleeping. Relax the eyes, the body (especially head: jaws/cheeks/forehead), and the mind (try not to "clench" on to anything). Try to constantly go deeper and deeper into relaxation. For me, sometimes it's fast, sometimes it's a bit longer, but I know I will get back to sleep this way. Worse comes to worst, if you just can't sleep after about 30 minutes, get out of bed, maybe move to another room, sit quietly thinking about lucid dreaming, perhaps doing a mantra and visualizing desired dream scenes, maybe have a light snack (warm milk is great), then go back to bed and try again.
Ultimately, though, the thing about lucid dreaming and sleep is that it's highly individual. There are resources out there (and on these forums) that give a lot of techniques -- you need to figure out for yourself what works for you.
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