I’ve thought about this for a while, and it seems to me that if you are prone to waking up during an LD and having to re-enter it at least a few times (say 3) this could really prove beneficial to your dream recall.
For example, there are times where I have a really long LD but never wake up from it… in the morning I can barely remember a thing about it. But on average if I wake up at least briefly between every dream cycle, and hence, in the middle of my lucid dreams a few times, this serves to be very beneficial to my dream recall.
It is annoying having to re-enter, but just a 2-3 times throughout a 20+ minute dream isn’t too bad at all, and sometimes you can even use the waking as your advantage to bridge the gap ebtween dream periods to have an abnormally long LD segment, just with sporadic wakings in between.
So… I would think dream memories are hard to integrate into long term storage while dreaming due to the way the brain is functioning, but brief waking periods followed by re-entry help you solidify your memories, you are no longer trying to remember a 60 minute dream, you are trying to remember 3 10-15 minute dreams, etc, the memories are better stored, all you n eed to do is think back about your dream content in the morning to be given with puzzle pieces of fairly detialed memories to put back in order.
Not that order seems to matter a ton with most dreams anyway.
But then again, one other thing that might help recall is simply self narration while dreaming, like, instead of just losing yourself to the experience you keep a side of you there to analyze the experience and relate it to “real life terms” and whatnot, sometimes I find myself doing that too…
Hmm, i think i experienced this once i was sleeping through a mild hangover. I woke up every 15 minutes or so (i had had very much sleep before this), and then entered a dream again. They were pretty short, but i was partly lucid in them. I knew that it wasn’t real, but i forgot to control them, they were very vivid though. The cool thing was, that in the last dream i thought that i was lying in my bed with open eyes, staring at my window. It was the complete same setting as my room, but suddenly a giant with a cigarette in his mouth appeared in the window, then i heard someone calling my name, and i woke up But sure, for me it enhanced recall a lot, but i haven’t experienced this later, i guess it’s hard to do at will.
well though we all think and function differently i don’t think something akin to memory storage of dream experiences would be something that would vary a great deal between human to human, if that were the case it would mean that the good old saying “everyone dreams” might not even be true in the first place.
We all store memories, breathe, dream, etc, and we all do it in more or less the same ways, right? The memory storage is a non-subjective facet of dreaming… probably one of the only non-subjective facets that I can think of…
"keep a side of you there to analyze the experience and relate it to “real life terms” and whatnot, sometimes I find myself doing that too… "
I wholly agree with this idea here. A perk not mentioned is that it KEEPS YOU LUCID. Though personally i do not go so far as to relate it to real life while still in the dream, such is fascinating now that i think of it, due to the subconscious nature of dream symbolism. My god you can learn a lot about yourself by doing this! cant wait till next LD, heck taking advantage and understanding symbolism in its entirety, rather than from the limited nature of memory. Sweeeeeeet Goodnight, people!
It only makes sense that you can remember dreams better by having more of them, smaller though they may be, it will help when you have longer ones.
I agree in that memory does not really differ from person to person (unless its alzheimers), and that the difference we see between people is due to some developing dream recall, and others not doing so. 90% skill to be developed, 10% natural/physically dependent ability.
Something to support to waking self up thing…a personal experience of mine involving the aurora borealis, an ocean, and intentional waking up and returning via WILD. From this experience i gained a whole ton of understanding and ability to wake myself up and also to do WILD and return back through memory of the dream. You can see the connection here…
Personally, i believe that though we may all differ in regards to different abilities such as dream recall, waking self up, lucidity length, stability, dream manipulation, returning to dream, etc. I think that all of these are skills that can be developed. Such is flaw only if you have tried to develop it with patience with little or no result. Otherwise it is possibly just a neglected skill that could use developing. Without putting in the effort on your side, ‘flaw’ or ‘i cant do it / handle it’ is naught but an excuse for laziness… At least thats my own opinion, there.
I talked once about waking up from lucid dreams on purpose to help ensure continued lucidity… this works because you remeber the dreams… waking up defnitely does increase recall.
But sure, for me it enhanced recall a lot, but i haven’t experienced this later, i guess it’s hard to do at will.
Goodnight, people!
From this experience i gained a whole ton of understanding and ability to wake myself up and also to do WILD and return back through memory of the dream. You can see the connection here… 
