It sounds like you've developed a natural sleep pattern. Google "second sleep" or "segmented sleep" if you want to learn more about how people did it before the invention of the electric light.
Incidentally, the most dramatic streak of lucidity I've had to date, three dreams in three consecutive nights of incredible clarity and complexity, occurred during during a period when my work life got so intense that I was going to sleep several hours earlier than usual out of sheer exhaustion, then waking up for two or three hours in the middle of the night to catch up on my work, and then going to sleep for a few more hours again in the morning.
The fact that I was dreaming so lucidly during this period was hardly even intentional (it just stole more time from my workday to write reports in my dream journal!) but if you're naturally blessed with this kind of segmented sleep pattern, by all means don't fight it, just go with it and turn those waking hours into productive time periods. Surely you can find useful or fun things to do for a few hours in the middle of the night? Then go back to sleep, without or without a deliberate attempt at lucid dreaming, and see what happens! If worse comes to worse and you don't have interesting dreams, at least you managed to accomplish something useful during your waking period of the night.
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