Thread: Sudden drop in dream recall?

I’ve recently started dream journaling again recently and was making good progress.

First night: 1 Dream

Second night: 2 dreams

Third Night: 4 dreams

Fourth night: 4 dreams

Now for the fifth and sixth night, Ive remembered no dreams!!

The fifth I kinda understand, my sleep schedule was weird. I slept an hour later around 1, woke up at 4 for wbtb then at 8 to watch something (much earlier than usual for a weekend) but on the sixth night (last night), I slept at 12, woke up at 8 and remembered no dreams at all.

This is odd, even when I’m not dream journaling which I have been doing consistently, my dream recall has always been pretty good and I can regularly remember at least one dream without even trying.

Is this just a dry spell? Do those happen? I haven’t changed what I’ve eaten or started taking any medication recently. Maybe I should shift intentions away from lding (focusing on WILD+wbtb) to dream recall?

Thanks.

Additionally, I'm not sure if I want to step away from WILD or not. It seems like the most consistent (?) way to lucid dream, however that might just be my own assumptions surrounding the technique. I feel like it'd be easier to focus on wbtb and mild (Laberges technique from the book) than continously attempt WILD and make little progress.