Friday night, I tweaked the mask configuration to start out very dim and gradually raise the brightness. I'd hoped that it would let me recognize it in a dream for a minute before it got too bright, but I didn't get any memories from that awakening. I suspect the timer may have been too short, so I've pushed it out. My morning recall was respectable.

Saturday night, I pushed the alarm back by twenty minutes. Unfortunately, I was woken by a different alarm (my computer's battery backup) about half an hour before the mask was supposed to wake me. Oh well. My morning recall was OK.

Last night, I ran over my common dreamsigns as I was going to bed, running through each one and telling myself that I'd recognize a dream if I saw it (huge room, camping, vacations, etc). For an unknown reason, I woke up about 45 minutes before the mask was scheduled to wake me. At first, I had no recall at all; then memory struck and I remembered having a lucid! I only got fragments of it, and I don't remember how it started, but given that it took place in a grocery store it may well have been the "huge rooms" dreamsign coming into play. I even managed to do the other task of the month, even though I hadn't been planning on it at all during my waking hours. Morning recall was OK.

I'm still annoyed with my complete lack of ability to remember that I can break out of the dream's plot and do my own thing. I try to practice "When I realize I'm dreaming, I'll ..." in waking life, but I so rarely have that moment of realization that would trigger such an action. I probably need to change it to something like "As I'm having a lucid dream, I'll remember to ..." and see if that helps. Of course, I'm only 10 dreams into this, so maybe it just comes with time ...

I don't know what's happened to my recall. For a long time, I was able to remember lots more details with lots less effort. Now, it seems like a battle every time I wake up, trying to claw something out of my memory. I know it's still considered good, but for me it's a regression, and that worries me.