sudden crash of dream recall

I keep this short. most often I could write down 4 dreams a night. I remembered stuff well. Now as my vacation ended and I adjusted myself back to the work life, my sleeping time decreased a bit, as I had to wake up earlier ever morning.

I am not stressed about work... But could it be that my dream recall crashed because my sleeping habits had changed somewhat?

PS. I have DMAE in a pill form. I heard they increase dream recall, but how do I take them? Do I wake up earlier, take two/three pills (daily limit?), and go back to sleep? I really don't know how to use these pills to help me remember dreams...

Dream recall goes up and down, but make sure that you do some stress-reducing exercise if you are stressed out while going to sleep. Something simple like count down slowly from 10 to 1 then image that you put all your worries and concern in a little box or anything you like. And tell yourself that nothing is going to disturb your practice.

I also found that falling asleep later than usual decrease dream recall, but also that falling asleep a little earlier than usual increase dream recall and dream awareness.

I never use pills or other dream aids like that, so I can't help you with that.

Good luck =)