Hey DV!

So last night I had a FA towards the end of my sleep cycle. It was around 8 hours after falling asleep (8 hours is a lot for me). When I became lucid I spent a few minutes trying to stabilize the dream, but nothing worked. I know that I can do it because I have done it 19 other times! In addition, the dream was very unstable and I had small feeling of my physical body as well. No matter what I did though nothing worked! When the dream finally ended I tried to DEILD for 20 minutes without moving a muscle but to no avail. I think this was all caused because it was near the end of my sleep cycle. Towards the end of REM do your dreams start to collapse and become less vivd? Is it hard to re-enter a dream when REM is ending?

Thanks! Your help is appreciated