Hello, I had a couple of questons relating to dream recall.

I've been working on improving my dream recall and trying to get a lucid dream since the end of December. I'm a college student so i was on winter break when I started. during that period of time I was getting 10-11 hours of sleep every night. I was getting to bed at 8 or 9 and waking up at 6:30. I started off with remembring about 1 Dream per week and quickly got it up to 1 every three nights. By the end of break I was remembering 1 dream every night. So once the new semester starter I'm getting up at 6:00 and not getting to bed till 10:30 or later. My dream recall has dropped to 1 every 5 days or so. On Friday Night I got 11 hours of sleep. And after going 6 days without remembering a dream I remembered 3 in one night. Since then i'm back to my weekday norm of between 7-9 hours of sleep.

I'm not suprised that my dream recall is linked to more ore less sleep. As reported in this thread It has happened to other people. Dream Recall thread
Here is the thing though. 7-9 hours of sleep isn't that little. An 18 YO is supposed to get something like 8 hours of sleep. So why the trouble with recall? Also since I still have papers to write and classes to attend what can I do to improe my recall without changing my sleep pattern. i've been setting my alarm for 3:00 to try and WILD. Should I try using a timer to wake me up every 90 mins?

Also the periods of dream drought have been connected loosly to periods of lower sun expouser do to cloudy skies and or lack of outside time. Sun was out today and I was outside for about 30 min so we'll see what effect that has. I read in another thread that serotonin increases dream recall and levels of serotonin are higher with more sun.

Anyway I was looking for suggestions about improving recall in general and specifically how to improve dream recall without increasing sleep time.