Thanks I just have a couple of questions at the moment - no better time to ask them than during a WBTB period!

1) Is it necessary to wake up in an REM period for better recall? If I wake naturally (presumably during after REM sleep and back into a non-REM stage) then my dream memory is usually worse than if I’m woken in the middle of a dream. (but with thought and recall techniques I can still remember them)

2) When using incubation techniques, is it worth keeping the base "world" that you incubate consistent in order to further reinforce it? Having something that is fixed in your mind as being a sort-of gateway to the dream world, I presume, would be useful as a mental signpost for dreaming. I guess I would act as some kind of mentally pre-fabricated dream sign.