Apologies for the lack of updates! It's been busy recently at work and with my wife home I'm no longer allowed to set my alarm in the middle of the night, so I've had a few nights of sleeping completely through. I'm trying to change my schedule a little at the moment to fit this - changing my mantra to wake up after each dream and drinking water to get around the no-alarm rule

My dream recall is still pretty good, but a little patchy compared to previously. I've not had a lucid dream since a week ago, but I assume that they are in general not a regular thing until you develop the skill and the mental awareness for it. Just so I've got a ballpark figure, for a beginner what sort of frequency do you think is possible? My dream diary seems to suggest one every 10 days or so, which I think is just coinciding when conditions are perfect from the day - good awareness throughout the day, waking up in the night and not falling asleep instantly when going back to bed.

I think I'm going to try sleeping on my back more often too, as I think most of my lucid dreams have occurred when sleeping on my back. I've never been able to sleep in this position before, even when very tired (I'm a side-sleeper) - I think the combination of meditation before bed and a better understanding of relaxation techniques has helped me to get over the mental block of sleeping on my back.