Dear Oprah,

About a month ago I seemed to be doing well - I got my REM dreamer and had a few short LDs in the space of a week and I figured I was on the right road. Initially I set my REM dreamer to the dimmest, shortest flashes and it would either clearly appear in my dreams or would sometimes wake me up and allow me to immediately WILD.

After that week however, I have been sleeping more deeply that I can ever remember having slept before. I now I have to set the mask to the highest brightness, flashing for about 30 seconds, and even then I usually don't notice it. If I use the beeps though, I always wake up. I haven't been remembering many dreams and the mask is reporting less REM sleep than usual.

I didn't bother posting this until now because I can't pinpoint any change in circumstances that would have caused this, so an explanation for it is unlikely. Now I'm starting to get frustrated though. Any thoughts?