Thread: Please, help/a motivating speach.

Im sorry if this is in the wrong section of something.
Well, I started practicing dream recall about a month ago. I started from the very bottom, I never even thought about dreams before that day. I never remembered any...In these 30-ish days I've recalled many dreams (at least comparing to 0) And in the beginning of this week I really thought I had it, had it better. I just went to sleep, told myself ''you awaken after a dream and remember it'', I woke up 'in the middle of the night' for about a week, remembering 1 or two dreams. Every dream was written down to a dream journal.
But since, about, thursday, I stopped remembering them...What happened? I was still very motivated and all. They just stopped. Now im starting to feel a little un-motivated.
If anyone has a story about how they've gone through the same or something that might help me get more motivated again or links to motivating reading about dream recall, or something, please do post.

Thanks.

It could have alot to do with your sleep patterns. Coincidentally I am on the subject of sleeping and dreaming in my psychology class. It's how I found this forum actually.

From what I understand you go through "waves" of sleep, 90 minute intervals of REM and non-REM sleep. REM sleep is when you do most of your dreaming. You go through about four intervals of REM sleep a night. Most people (like 85%) who are woken up during and REM sleep will remember their dreams, but the longer you take to wake up after an REM sleep, the least likely you are to remember.
The reason you are more able to remember your dreams in the middle of the night is because you have awaken from an REM sleep, when you wake up in the morning you have probably had the time to work through your last wave of REM and your mind starts working back toward consciousness. If you use an alarm clock to wake up in the morning, you will sometimes awaken during an REM sleep in the morning and be able to remember a dream.

I never intended to get into lucid dreaming, it just started happning to me, so I rolled with it, and sought to understand it.

Even still, sometimes I go for weeks on end without lucid dreaming or even a significant dream than I deem worth remembering (that is, amoungst the jumble of dreams influanced by what I was doing during the day).

This is most likely just a phase... or as Justice said, sleep patterns.

Don't worry man, they'll come back.