Lucid Dreaming | MILD my first 5 nights. Suggestions for going back to sleep?

I have tried to have lucid dreams off and on with very little effort (one weak suggestion that i will realize I'm dreaming and remember my dream before bed) for a while with no success at lucid dreaming but vastly improved dream recall (at least one a night when I remembered to set the intention). 5 days ago I attended a talk about lucid dreaming and it inspired me to give it some real effort with some proven induction techniques. That night I tried using the MILD technique I set my intention to wake up after every dream and recall and write down my dream, and told myself that i would realize i was dreaming. I woke up around 4:30 with a weakly recalled non lucid dream and then started setting my intention to realize i was dreaming as i went back to sleep, I succeeded in having my first lucid dream with only one big setback I didn't fall back asleep until 6:30! My lucid dream was such an intensely enjoyable experience I didn't let two hours of sleeplessness scare me away from continuing to try and since this night i have experienced one other lucid dream on a night where i had no trouble falling back asleep after awaking from my first or second dream of the night. But i have also had one night of being up for 3 hours in the middle of the night with no lucid dream payoff and last night i was up from 1:30 to 6:30 again with no lucid dream. Has anyone else ever had this problem? I'm really grateful for the success I've experienced fairly quickly at having intensely enjoyable albeit extremely short lucid dreams so quickly and will continue trying to induce them but would really appreciate any suggestions anyone might have about falling back asleep while setting the intention to realize your dreaming. Even just someone sharing they had the same experience and improved at it over time would give me some extra motivation. I think i may be too excited at the prospect of having a lucid dream and that is keeping me awake or I'm setting my intention with too much or the wrong type of effort and this is keeping me from falling back asleep. Any suggestions or just experiences shared much appreciated?

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