Question regarding mantra.
I'm really honestly trying hard to get to the stage where I can have one lucid dream by recalling as many dreams as I can. Yes, there were times I could recall dreams every night but then all of a sudden, that ability is gone. Now I'm trying every way to recall dreams every night again even by waking up in the middle of night about after 4 hours of a sleep with alarm set on. Still there are times when I don't remember anything at all or barely small details of a dream.
As for mantra, I tried saying something like "I will remember the dream when I wake up" before I sleep, well, it isn't really progressing for me.
What I like to ask is can you just repeat the mantra in your mind and remember the dream when you wake up or say it out?
Another question I would like to ask I find it quite hard to get to sleep, will meditation help resolving the problem?