^^ Yes JustASimpleGuy, this is certainly true. With effort and consistency, you can push back the levels of awesome vivid recall earlier and earlier in your individual REM cycles, and in earlier sleep cycles as well. sivason says the same thing about lucidity -- in the beginning, it comes at the end of late morning REM, and as your brain gets more and more accustomed to operating in "lucid dream mode" the lucidity will occur earlier and earlier in REM, and earlier in the night, leading to longer lucid dreams. He mentions that it takes around 100 LDs for this to start happening…..ONE TO GO, WOOHOO! haha I don't expect an instant change but I absolutely do notice changes progressing over the months in this directions, at least with vivid recall of non-lucids, and I hope soon this will extend to lucids.

Practicing backwards recall can work wonders sometimes -- just the other night I woke up with end of dream memories, and was able to work backwards to a number of earlier scenes which had fallen out of immediate memory.