I’m a bit new to lucid dreaming, and it does not come easy to me. However, I’ve only been trying for two weeks, so I’m not discouraged yet. However, I have a question. I’ve been trying WBTB for most of the time I’ve been attempting to LD. I have my alarm set to go off 5 hours after I usually go to sleep. I then attempt, and fail, a WILD attempt. Then, when I wake up in the morning, I have absolutely no dream recall at all. My question is, are my WBTB methods and lack of dream recall related? Am I doing it wrong?
WBTB methods and dream recall are related because when you wake up in the middle of a dream, its a lot easier to remember that dream. It seems to me like you’re doing everything right, but you probably shouldn’t take only my word for it, because I’m still a newbie at WBTB.
How long are you staying awake for when waking up after 5 hours? Make sure you write your dreams down first before going back to sleep or trying WILD. How much time do you have left after you’ve stayed up a while? Enough to get back into REM?
It has happened to me a few times that I had absolutely no recollection of a dream after WBTB. That only happened after I had not let myself sleep through the night for a month. Now I take an occasional break and spoil myself with sleeping through the night. WBTB does personally make tired if I do it continuously.
I think I figured it out last night. I had assumed WBTB meant wake and then right back to bed. Now I know to stay up for a little bit. However, I set my alarm to go off last night. I now cannot remember turning it off, but it wasn’t blaring when I woke up. So, it appears I need to move my alarm clock somewhere where I have to get up to turn it off. Now, I have a question; if I get up, turn my alarm clock off, write down my dream (if I can remember it), do a techinque I heard of (writing down “I will have a lucid dream” repeatedly), then read for, say, 30 minutes, then go back to sleep, do you think that may work better?
It might 
You should play around with the times you use. Staying up for 30 minutes might (might!) make you too awake and you’ll find it hard to fall asleep. If that happens, next time stay up for only 15 minutes or so. until you get the right amount of wakefulness 
Mattias is right, play around with the time you stay awake. Also, I found out that the amount of time may not always be the same. Some nights just writing down my dreams and going to the bathroom wakes me up enough, so I can go back to sleep. Other nights I need more time, and then I read a book about lucid dreaming or so. I think it all depends on how tired you are physically. Last night I had to fight staying awake, tried to read and such but never got to being fully awake. I figured it was one of those nights I needed sleep. I did get lucid, but it was very brief and was too groggy to realize that I had an FA, otherwise I would have done an RC.
So getting to a point of being clearheaded before going back to sleep is important, because you’ll be clearheaded enough to realize you are dreaming. Good luck! 