I didn't post yesterday because there was nothing much to post - due to watching TV before bed I had severely limited recall.

Tuesday 1st/ Wednesday 2nd January
Pre-Sleep:
I watched an hour long documentary on the computer around 8pm, but then stopped TV until sleep. I was working from about 9-11pm, when I went to sleep. I tried to do the mantra but I'm fairly sure I didn't do it terribly well.

Post-Sleep:
Well, my dream recall is back
Probably as a result of not watching TV directly before sleep, I had an amazingly vivid non-lucid dream; the sort where it still seems like it really happened, even after waking.

During the dream I remember having the passing thought of reality checks, but remember thinking the setting was "too real" to be a dream. Now I know to always question everything
In the last scene of the dream, I was getting quite intimate with a girl I know from waking life. This had two effects:
1. My subconcious didn't really want it to be a dream so dispelled any reality-check thoughts.
2. Upon waking, I just focused on the last scene instead of the entire dream, and so ended up with limited (but still detailed) recall.

So the somewhat limited recall was due to not really trying to remember until it was too late. I'm sure I could have remembered the rest of the dream had I tried, but I was enjoying the last scene too much

Hacktrix