Been a little bit! Want to update my results.
A lot of said results can be seen in my dream journal. My recall has been steadily improving slightly, bit by bit, with occasional blackout periods of two to three days. But as for the past few days, I've been recalling at least one dream a night, sometimes more, and have encountered some interesting situations too, such as last night's dream where I literally had a dream within a dream. Would've been a good chance in that false awakening situation to reality check, but it never occurred to me, sadly. But, the recall is improving!
I'm trying to test out various things I do throughout the day differently to see what may be affecting my recall. Do any of you guys have any ideas or suggestions as to what waking-life activities or things can affect dream recall?