I only remember dreams ( and lds ) that I have after going back to sleep. What should I do?

I am keeping a dream journal and filling it with entries, but I can usually only remember things that happen after I go back to sleep in the morning or wake up during the night. I rarely remember a dream that happened in the night itself.

Is there a way to use that to my advantage? Like developing some self waking mechanism so that I would wake up without an alarm clock. Or change that so that I could remember regular sleeptime dreams as well? I'm a bit lost.

Since you won't be sleep for as long in the morning, your probably waking up just after a REM period, (the period where you have most of your dreams) so you'll remember them easier. I'm not an expert though :D

You could set your alarm clock to wake you after 4-5 hours sleep, and your recall will probably increase.