I tried this the other night, Ham: I emptied my bladder and then drank lots of water just before bed. I woke up with a dry throat about 3-4 hours in and needing to use the restroom. I did so, and while I was getting up and going I tried to remember everything that I had dreamt about, and when I returned to my bed before I went back to sleep I wrote down some key details. Actually, all I wrote down was "Giant bunnies partnered with Native Americans. Also, something about being 'from a dream.'" and the time I had woken up. Then I went back to sleep. Partway through the night I felt I was getting a little empty so I downed another glass.

Every so often I'd wake up, need to use the restroom, do so, and remember a dream. None of my others actually were anything other than a mishmash of images, but I remembered them and could have written them down if there was anything.

I usually find I remember my last dream before waking quite naturally, but I've despised using an alarm clock to wake myself up on time for school because it almost always forces me to forget the dream in the effort exerted to turn it off. However, your body naturally waking yourslf up to do something, like use the restroom, doesn't seem to disturb your sleep cycle the way an alarm clock will, or at least it doesn't do so to mine. In the morning, I may have gotten up several times uring the night, but I'm refreshed. Plus, its healthy to drink that much water.

I've never remembered more than one dream in my life a night, but last night by doing this I remembered 5: the first one, the middle ones that weren't coherent enough to record in the notebook, and my last one. *points to the last post in her Dream Journal* No doubt it won't have the same amount of success for every night, but I'm certain it will increase my dream recall more often beause of the massive success I had this time.

By the way, what you said about telling yourself to wake up after every REM cycle, works the same way. My internal clock just isn't good enough for me to do so, as I have no sense of time. I can tell myself to wake up in a few hours, and the next thing I know I'm hearing my room-mate getting up at 7:00 AM and myself tells me blearily: "Huh? Wuh? Has it been three hours yet?" I have to rely on my more regular 'water clock', if you get my meaning. If you're able to get yourself to wake up at certain times by teling yourself to do so, you may just want to do the drinking thing until you get in the habit of waking up frequently, then your better internal clock might keep you on better time than mine will without the need to walk down the hall to the bathroom every hour or two. ^^;

Of course...This is probably a situation of the blind leading the blind. *stumbles about* Oh, hello, Ham. I've only been here 2 days but you know, you should try this. XD.

Hopefully it helps though.