How can u expect LDs unless u...

(and remember/recall dreams) if you don't remember and recall/become lucid during the day? Every hour, 5 hours, 5 minutes (whatever is convenient for you) try to recall in your head what happened like you would writing down a dream. Colors, people, places, what time was it?, morning or night?, DETAILS! Details! Details!

I believe that the more you recall during the day, the more you can recall dreams and details :)

Another very possible thing is that you'll be able to remember your exact address, names of recent things (friends, lovers, etc) while still asleep!! Try to do this in your next lucid dream, it's harder than it looks. (Try to imagine the layout of your bedroom and if you awoke, what would you see? See?? You 'hallucinate' at night...things get jumbled in your mind (fact/fiction)......

I think doing all that would definately be helpful but I don't actively try to lucid dream too much. Most of mine are where I just become aware that it's a dream rather than having to do an rc (although I usually try a different rc each time after I become lucid just to see what happens).

And also you're right about it being hard to remember things while in a dream, probably because in a dream you are a different person (maybe still yourself but with different actions, attitudes, etc.) with a different history etc. It can get confusing about what is actual reality's history and what was made in the dream.