other peoples' replies = tl;dr, but might I suggest if it hasn't yet been said that you try investing more time and interest in recording your dreams? You might not be a natural-born novelist or anything, but for me I find that spending a good lot of time elaborating on every possible detail of a dream that I can and spinning a thousands-word long narrative covering what I've dreamed really invests me in what I've been through and if written well, it teaches me to look forward to next night as a new opportunity to gain material to write a new story with next morning. Basically instead of jotting down something like:

I was in a store, and then I saw Jake there and he was buying something. I left but apparently the store was underwater and when I went through the door I started drowning. Then I woke up.
,try something that makes it really compelling and interesting in its own right:

I'm in a store, sort of a mom-and-pop country store with an exposed hatched-timber roof and brick walls. There are dusty plyboard shelves full of pet food, and the clerk behind the counter looks like Brad Pitt, only with orange hair. I'm choosing between Iams Complete and Nutro All-In-One Nutrition Solution when I notice Jake at the counter haggling with the clerk over the legitimacy of a wheatback penny that he's trying to use to buy a grenade with. A grenade? I'm sure he had his reasons.

I decide that a traditional pet store would have more reasonable prices than this place, so I head towards the exit - through the plate glass window I can see an idyllic country setting lit by filtered sunsetlight. I open the door and step through, but now I'm nowhere near those pastures, but underwater! I turn around to go back through the door but it's gone, and I look up to find the surface to swim to but it's pitch black all around me and the pressure is incredible; I must be miles underwater. I'm going to drown!
The second one (assuming you had most or all of those dream details to go by) not only helps you remember more (which in turn helps you remember more in subsequent dreams) but invests your subconscious in the dreaming effort by 1)spending such a focused amount of time doing nothing but dwelling on the dreams you've just had and 2)producing a piece of work that's cogent and detailed and interesting enough to actually be proud of after writing it, that you'd actually want to go back and read through. This kind of intimate relationship with your dreams really puts you on a level with them where LDing feels like a natural progression rather than a leap of faith that you're not ready for or don't deserve yet.

Hope that made sense, but that sort of detail is how I recall every scene in my dreams. I guess I don't have prodigous LD results to show for it yet, but I definitely believe it helps me. If nothing else, describing my dreams in luxurious detail is its own reward, at least for me.