Dream Recall: I can remember most my dream but not in the right order.

[lazytitan]

When I write in my journal after a dream I never remember the whole dream. When I wake up I only remember the last thing that happened, then thinking about that triggers in my memory the time before that and so on and so on in till I have remember the whole dream. Its always been that way for as long as I could remember. I have shared my dreams often with family and friends because frankly I have some crazy awesome dreams, its why i want to learn to LD. Is this normal? Will I get to the point when I wake up from a dream I remember the whole dream and not pieces to a puzzle I put together? For the last week I have averaged 3 dreams a night and in my journal the are usually about 2-3 paragraphs long and I feel they are detailed. Last night I had a dream where I looked at my hands and thought this isn't right? Then the dream went on as normal. Problem is when I woke up I had no memory of that at first. Few moments later as I start replaying my dream in my head backwards to write it down I realized that I did what I had been trying to do. I have read that doing your RC in a dream may not ALWAYS trigger a LD and this was my first time doing anything close to my RC in a dream. My fear is that even if I do my RC nightly I will never do anything with it because I won't have any memory of me doing it till moments after I wake up.

[Tygar]

When I write in my journal after a dream I never remember the whole dream. When I wake up I only remember the last thing that happened, then thinking about that triggers in my memory the time before that and so on and so on in till I have remember the whole dream. Its always been that way for as long as I could remember. Is this normal? Will I get to the point when I wake up from a dream I remember the whole dream and not pieces to a puzzle I put together? For the last week I have averaged 3 dreams a night and in my journal the are usually about 2-3 paragraphs long and I feel they are detailed. This is the way I recall dreams as well, but only for normal dreams. I remember the last events and have to work my way backward to the beginning of the dream. Lucid dreams work more like real life. I remember right from the point where I became lucid so I can think back to any part of the dream. Last night I had a dream where I looked at my hands and thought this isn't right? Then the dream went on as normal. Problem is when I woke up I had no memory of that at first. Few moments later as I start replaying my dream in my head backwards to write it down I realized that I did what I had been trying to do. I have read that doing your RC in a dream may not ALWAYS trigger a LD and this was my first time doing anything close to my RC in a dream. My fear is that even if I do my RC nightly I will never do anything with it because I won't have any memory of me doing it till moments after I wake up. It is true. You can do a RC in a dream and still not become lucid. I have done this in past dreams. However, actually doing a RC in a dream is a very good sign that you are getting closer to have a lucid dream. What was missing was awareness in your dream. That "Aha!" moment when you realize that something is strange and realize you are dreaming. When it happens it will be incredible.

[FuzzyPotatoes]

Most people do that actually, it's normal. There's a method relating to it, the tag book method or something like that, when in the middle of the night after a dream someone will write little keywords of the dream, and in the morning they look at it and the dream all comes flooding back to the person.