I have restarted my attempts of gaining lucidity from a year ago, and I have started with the Wake-Back-to-Bed method in combination with willpower/affirmations. Three nights ago, I slept for 5 hours, woke up and stayed up for an hour reading lucid dreaming material and dream journals, and then fell back asleep. That night was the first night in a long time that I remembered any dreams - I remembered 5 fragments in a row! However, the next night, I slept for 5 hours but exhaustion made me stay awake for about 7-10 minutes. When I fell back asleep, however, I had one very long dream with excellent recall (also, most of my dreams are in third-person, but this one was taken from a first-person perspective; exciting for me since I got to "experience" the dream!)

Most WBTB guides suggest that you stay awake for 60 to 90 minutes, but I was much better off with that short interval than with the long one. My question is, is this because my dream-recall capabilities grew from the first to the second night, or do you think that the "method that works for me" is a short, 10 minute interval instead of an hour?