I was able to lucid dream for about 6 months when I had a good environment for it.

I lived in a foreign city, and had a very well insulated high rise bedroom with climate control and a professional blackout curtains installation. As a result I slept very deeply.

I also did regular reality checks 5-10 times per day and spent time remembering every dream I had right when I woke up, a dream journal-like exercise but lazier.

Unfortunately, lucid dreaming sometimes triggered sleep paralysis for me. Its very unpleasant.

I don’t lucid dream anymore but I have retained the instinct to recognize a bad dream and snap out of it to this day.