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And i want to share my real problem with lucid dreaming and why i had no real lucid dream so far.

Just know that this does not mean, i lost motivation. Im still trying everything to reach my goal.

First of all:
I did try a lot of things. I did read various articles and spent money for courses and everything. I always tried as i was told.

You may know the Bootcamp course and the breakthrough course from Howtolucid.
I tried both of them. Did everything just as the course told me to do.

Its now 4 year...

My understanding is that dreaming only occurs during REM and that REM occurs around 90 minutes after sleep onset and then we go through a number of sleep cycles during the night with the REM stage increasing towards the end of the night (or from approx 3am onwards - depending on when you went to bed). So my question is this, why on earth can I enter a lucid dream consciously after going straight to bed? I shouldn't even be in REM sleep. I have gone to bed at say 10pm, relax and then find my b...