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I got to bed last night around 1:30am. I woke up at 6:07 after a dream and decided to do a quick WBTB. I only got out of bed, stretched and then quickly hopped back. I started a mantra. I really tried to believe this mantra and put all my autosuggestive energy into making it true to my brain. I repeated, "I notice details in my dream/environment and become lucid." I obsessively was repeating this in my mind.
The interesting part is that when I was dreaming the thought of lucidity and a dream sign were present. Playing volleyball was somehow a dream sign in the dream and I was talking about it with my room mate. I said that I should have gotten the dream sign, but I didn't. Not really sure how I didn't get lucid. Oh well.
I find it fascinating that I woke up just before a new sleep cycle and could only stay up for 5 minutes and still have lucidity permeate my dream logic.
I think the takeaway is that a mantra must be practiced obsessively and with a burning intent to make it true. This may sound extreme, because it is.