Hello everyone, first post on this forum.

I've recently started to try attaining my first lucid dream through WBTB but almost everywhere all I can read is that the longer you stay awake for, the higher chance of a lucid dream (up to about 50 minutes?) but I've found that even if I stay awake for 30 minutes it's just too long and I become too alert becoming unable to fall back asleep, just spent over an hour laying in bed last night after my alarm went off after six hours and I just could not make it happen.

I've heard that there was a study of some sort showing that the longer time you are awake for the higher chance of a LD but is this definitive or is it different for each person? It would be annoying knowing that I would have to shorten the time I am awake for after waking up from the initial sleeping period having a lesser chance of having a LD than if I were able to still get to sleep after 40-50 minutes.

I think the following night I might try 20 minutes but I get the feeling that will still be too much for me to handle.