I’ve noticed that the best Dream Recall I have is after a whole day of videogaming. However, I have also noticed that when I go to bed past 10 PM, I have little or no DR whatsoever. However, when I go to bed in the 8-9 PM range, I have great dream recall. I just wondered if bed time had an effect on anybody else, or if I was unique in that sense. Regardless of your answers, thank you.
Dablooey.
Moved from Quest for Lucidity since it’s not about inducing LD’s 
well last week i was on holiday and didnt use any visual tech for a week… even tv, however i went to bed at 11 at the earliest most nights, and even though i dont remember many of the dreams i did have (no LD’s unfortunately) i do remember having good DR for about an hour after i woke up. (should have written them down in hindsight). So perhaps the video games have something to do with it. I know i have DR much more often when i go to bed before 11 when iv been video gaming or watching TV before hand
I don’t know why but playing video-games during the day seems to influence the way we are dreaming, maybe because when playing we use some special part of the brain (like logic, memory, etc.)
I observed that if I go to bed earlier I have a better recall of my dreams in the morning, if you go too late your body and your brain are usually exhausted with can influence your dream recall abilities.
Thank you both for your answers. And Lucidadelic, I have noticed that video games do affect your dreams. For example, yesterday I played Kingdom Hearts (358/2 Days) ALL DAY LONG, I went to bed that night and had a (sexually explicit) dream relating to Kingdom Hearts
Yeah, when I go to bed late I have little/no dream recall but when I go early it is really vivid and easy to remember!
I think a regular sleep cycle is what is most key. As long as you keep going at the same time and waking up around the same time you’ll remember most dreams. While also having sufficient sleep too.
Probably no effect for me. What probably matters is how long I sleep, and how many times I wake up.
if you go to bed earlier, you get more REM time. more REM time means more dreams, and more vivid dreams. if you go to bed late, you might get less sleep, so you get less REM time. that either means that you’re not having dreams, or that they’re very loose and not vivid enough to remember.
also it depends on the person if you dream of the things you did during the day. a few years ago i was terribly addicted to a game called Oblivion… i played it for hours and days, but i only ever had maybe 2 dreams about it.
That makes a lot of sense; recently I have been getting 6-7 hours sleep and have no recollection of the dreams at all. More REM time must be the answer. Also, with video gaming, I generally find if I play for just a couple of hours before bed, elements of the game are occassionally encorporated into the dream, thus making it more memorable.
Same… I must admit that I’m not a good sleeper… It takes me to fall asleep about 10 or more minutes in bed and it’s frustrating that I can’t recall dreams often. Just little “pieces” from a longer dream - I haven’t had LD for about a whole month. 
that’s not a long time to fall asleep. it can take me an hour or more.
From what I learned from my experience, DR is in a high percentage random and depends on too many facts in order to know what do to and when to do it so you can get the best of it.
I too have somewhat better DR after spending much time in front of the computer, but like I said it depends on too much detail in order to know for sure what causes the best and/or worse results.
To put it straight up: I get good DR when I am really tired and go to sleep happily because I’m finally resting after a whole busy day. If I go to bed and I’m not that tired, so it takes some time for me to fall asleep, then I don’t remember pretty much anything. From my side, I remember well my dreams when waking up late. (You know, I wake up in the morning at 8 and I’m still sleepy and go back to bed and do that until it’s 10 o’clock ? 
) Also, waking up brutally from a dream either makes me remember each slight detail or totally washes off my brain so I can’t recall a thing. Mostly you get variant 1 from waking up suddenly (or being woken up suddenly).
That’s all I can tell you about it 
The more sleep I get the more vivid and easier to recall my dreams are. But the less the sleep I get the easier it is for me to WILD the next night. It’s a balence of which technique I want to us for me.
when i got to bed 11 or later the only thing i remember from the dream is my feelings
Like Don said, it depends on too many aspects really.
One thing is absolutely sure, more sleep means more REM, means more dreams and DR.
For me, I go to bed somewhere between 12 and 3 and it takes me at least 30 minutes to fall asleep. I wake up multiple times during the late morning and get out of bed between 11 and 1. A lot of times I WILD spontaneously during the morning and my DR is most of the times good. When I sleep less, I dream less and have not much DR.
However, I have had a long during period in which I suffered from insomnia. I slept 2 to 4 hours a night and woke up a couple of times during those hours. My dream count and DR was the same if not better than my DR now. I could wake up and remember 6 dreams very clearly…
Have you thoguht tht maybe what is being influenced is the ammount of time asleep and hence whether or not you wake up in a dream?