Thank you! I'm not sure what kind of work is available out there, but I'll be looking. I'll check around the forums too. It would be neat to touch base with others who are considering a career in dream research.

I think "brief flashes of lucidity" is a good way to describe what I experience. I think I'll call it "brief lucidity," for conversations and journaling purposes. I took a break from lucid dreaming as well, but kept up my recall (more or less). It wasn't long before I started noticing a pattern. Thanks for sharing your experience with this.