Conscience

Date: Apr 19
Sleep Length: 4.5h + 3.5h (8h)
Techniques: SSILD + DILD
I almost accidentally did WILD after I prepared SSILD. I was falling asleep (SP), my mind was still half awake, I could almost enter a dream after I've seen lights and flashes, then I woke up again.
SSILD failed probably because it took me very long to fall asleep after the cycles (~20 mins) and I have to get used to the situation of getting up at 3:30 and doing meditation
Dream Summary:
You can't call that a dream. I simply remember an underground garage and my stepmom
during SSILD I had one FA (I think). I wasn't really asleep
Vividness (1-15), Awareness (1-10), Length (min): 0/0/0
Emotions: none
Signs: none
Tags: Underground garage, stepmom

Note: I drank alcohol before I went to bed (beer and wine), which probably affected my dream recall and sleep

this is my first entry
Apr 18, I can't remember anything from last night. I tried some kind of Mantra and RC, I fell asleep quickly, when I woke up I immediately asked myself "What did I dream?", but there was no memory
I didn't expect much, as this is my first try after 2 and a half years.

now I will write down previous memories that might be important (2011)
Noteworthy recurring details:
big rooms and halls
locations I know with a little change (eg: there's a river instead of a street, clover instead of grass, etc)
open terrain (streets, fields, nature, outside), rarely rooms (if so, normally big rooms)
perspective: It's like I don't have a body, only flying eyes. Pretty passive, normally only observing things. The only dreams in which I had a body were pretty intense/vivid (almost lucid), I normally don't smell/feel/taste, only in intense dreams

I just read my old DJ from 2011 and 2012 and noticed I dreamed less often than I thought.
My quantity record on a day was 4 dreams. My quantity record in a week was about somewhere between 5 and 10 dreams, even though I never dreamed more than 4 days a week and never more than 3 days in a row
it took me pretty long to get a better recall, which is a bit demotivating, but I might learn quicker this time, because I was already able to remember my dreams fairly good (for my standards, I guess I was never good)