I'm wondering if anyone else has experienced this and knows of a good way to get around it. When doing dream recall one of three things happen:

1. I wake up with memories of a dream, I sit for a moment, they congeal into a narrative and I write them down.
2. I wake up empty headed and disheartened.
3. I wake up, I know there was a dream, I have a vague hazy image in my head, but try as I might, it won't congeal into a narrative.

It's that third one that drives me nuts. Eventually the hazy image disappears and the dream is lost, but like a huge fish on the end of a hook, I keep trying to reel it in. Has anyone else had this? Are there any tricks to pulling back the memory?