reduce the number of wakeups with my problem. I'm finding I can LD pretty good without keeping a dream journal but it seems my thoughts, eye movements, feeling of swallowing the "magic pill", basically anything that can substract my attention from the dream overwrites it and wakes me up right where everything gets good.

No it is not the excitement, nor is it the dream ending. Am I correct to think if I record my dreams the world will become much more immersive than my thoughts? I really like to solve this problem, it's caught me 3 times in a row this morning...