Hey there,
For myself, over the years I've experienced that it's quite normal to go through ups and downs on my dreamrecall. Some nights I remember a dozen dreams, some none at all. Sometimes I have entire periods where my recall seems super sharp, and days or weeks on end when recall seems to be waning.
I've learned the main thing is not to worry about it too much, and just focus on what I can remember. Sometimes it's multiple dream at once after a single awakening, sometimes its just an abstract fragment ("I think there was a dog in my dream somewhere... may have been a cat, not sure").
Some things that help me when I'm struggling with dream recall:
a) See if there's something that immediately pulls my attention when I wake up. Could be work, could be a new movie I'm excited about, or some event that's happening in the near future. If there's something that I find myself thinking about as soon as I wake up, I find that it can make it difficult to remember dreams.
b) Do not rush it. Sometimes I can think I'm not remember anything, but after just waiting a minute or so, trying not too much to start thinking about other things but just keeping my mind as blank as I can, the dream recall suddenly comes. Just because I don't remember something within the first ten seconds doesn't mean I won't.
c) If nothing comes, go over regular dream elements. I just think of things I dream about regularly (places, people, animals, events) and see if any of these trigger a recollection. Sometimes they trigger a memory of a dream directly, sometimes they trigger it by assocation, but that often helps (also, it keeps my thoughts from wandering to non-dream things in the meantime).
d) When all else fails, do not stress over it. There'll be plenty, plenty more chances
Hope that helps,
-Redrivertears-
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