Well, because of my work I have to wake up very early in the morning everyday at the same time. The only option I have is to try go early to bed although I’m kind of owl, it’s a bit problematic to get more than 3 full sleep cycles every night. I got to fix my schedule in a way that I’m waking up some minutes before the alarm goes off. I’m not using snooze anymore btw. My next step is to catch the last wire of the dream before it fades with my daily routine, then start voice journaling while preparing for work.
Weekends I have the chance to get longer REM periods, but it’s tricky cause I get headaches if I sleep too much. It’s just I don’t get much dream content out of the stress of work, that’s bit disappointing and that’s why I’m looking forward to incubate themes to dream about. Not sure how I can reach that, long ago made some experiments to induce stuff into the dreams but cannot say it’s a reliable way otherwise I could have been doing that since then.