I've been thinking about memory a lot lately in connection with lucid dreaming. This is another technique I'm wondering if will work.
The idea is, you focus on remembering in dreams - that is, when you write in your DJ you focus only on the dream content that the dream has "lifted" from real life - or from an earlier part of the dream.
This idea is reliant on one big question:
If you focus exclusively on one aspect of a dream when you write your DJ, will you dream about that aspect more in future dreams?
So, hopefully, things from real life (places, objects, people) would feature more and more in your dreams as a result of your DJ focus.
The next stage would be awareness of remembering. So, when you write your DJ you write instances in the dream when you were aware - within the dream - that you were remembering. (For example, the other night I dreamt I was at my grandad's house and I was remembering - and visualising - how my grandad's house was furnished years before). In these cases you may actually say, "I remember...".
The next stage would be remembering to remember. This would be the moment of lucidity where you plan to spend an amount of time actively, consciously remembering. Here is the point you remember your waking life, you remember you are a lucid dreamer, remember your intention to become lucid, remember your dream goals etc.
