I've spent the last three nights working on my dreams, the first two nights I at least had much better recall. However, the third.....

I had an unsuccessful night... Perhaps even more unsuccessful than normal! I went to sleep around midnight, set my alarm for 5:30... as suggested on the forums. I woke up at 5:30 and I could only remember one rather boring dream. I stayed up for around 30-40 minutes as suggested by the WBTB tutorial and finally went back to bed.. when I went back to bed i focused on getting a lucid dream. Once again, as suggested: I repeated a mantra in my head until i fell asleep, "I will have a lucid dream" and "I will remember my dream" This is the last thing i remember... and I just woke up again at 9:30. I'm a little frustrated because I feel like I got closer to a LD last night without doing any of the methods!

Maybe I just need to focus on dream recall for another couple nights or a week before I attempt to go at a full fledged lucid.