Spotty Dream Recall

Quest for Lucidity
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Okay so I have been practicing my dream recall for the past few weeks now. Since early December. I would just like to know if it is normal for my recall to be great some days and not so great on others eg. On Dec 20th I found a peak in my recall where I wrote an entire page and a half on one single dream. But over the past 10 days or so I have seen a significant decline in my recall, being able to recall more than one dream on some nights but not very much detail at all. I have been sick over the past week or so and my sleep has definitely suffered because of it but I have been making sure that if I don’t get 8 solid hours I take a nap during the day to catch up. I consider myself highly motivated and set my intentions on waking up after about 5 hours and doing my recall regimen, staying still, keeping my eyes closed and doing my best not to let any distracting thoughts hinder my ability to remember my dreams. I guess I am just losing my motivation with feeling like hell all night long. But I’m hoping someone can tell me that this is a normal occurrence and I just have to wait out this cold to get my recall back up to par.

Edit: I have been taking B6 vitamins as well as melatonin to try and offset the effects being sick is having on my sleep.

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It’s normal. I have ups and downs with recall sometimes without a good reason. People I have chatted with have similar experiences.

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Okay, sounds like Iv’e just got to ride this dry spell out. Any idea on how long they usually last?

Thanks for the reply Letaali :happy:

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For me it’s 2-5 days. The low recall motivates me to focus on recall and usually the recall gets better within a week, unless something keeps me from sleeping normally like exams.

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Sounds good. Yeah I find I do the same, the lower my recall gets the more effort I seem to put into it :happy:

Thanks again.