I also have had the problem of not recalling morning dreams as much as early night dreams, although my morning dreams are now starting to reappear and amazingly enough I had a pretty vivid non-lucid dream that happened in the first hour of my sleep last night - so that is possible too, just less likely. In my case I think my dream recall issues have been related to stress, and now that my stress has gone down I expect my recall to improve. Also could be that recall goes through phases or maybe the chemistry was not right for me. Anyway my dream recall appears to be improving again, and I hope yours will too. And I agree that vivid non-lucids can be terrific as well.
My dreams also tend to be just one dream scene most of the time, and it is very rare for me to remember a lengthy dream with lots of plot developments - though sometimes that happens too.
Also I suggest that you may want to invest some time in improving your memory in general in waking life. Memory exercises that improve your waking memory are likely to help with dream recall.
Also I read in Daniel Love's book "Are You Dreaming?" About a nifty technique for improving memory in waking life and also for lucid dreaming. The technique is called the peg system, and it works like this:
first you have to assign an item that is your primary association for each number from 1 to 10 in waking life, based on what the number looks like the most to you and/or the first thing you think of when you see that number - for me these are my pegs (but for you they would be different): 1 stick, 2 swan, 3 bottom, 4 chair, 5 car, 6 note, 7 flag, 8 snowman, 9 cherry, 10 fence. Spend some time deciding what your pegs will be and memorize them for always.
Then try to remember a set of random things or ideas using your pegs as associations - for example: if I try to remember a computer in the first place, I visualize a computer being beaten with a stick until it is thoroughly broken; if my next memory is supposed to be a cup, I think of a swan drinking water out of a cup, if I try to remember the word "pen" next then I think of the phrase "pen in the butt" which sounds a bit like "pain in the butt" but is connected with my peg for 3 (bottom) and it is a catchy humorous phrase which really helps, then if my next word is phone I think of a phone on a chair and think about how it does not belong on a chair, etc.
After having written down my list of memories to try to recall as 1 computer, 2 cup, 3 pen, 4 phone, etc., then I turn the paper around and maybe even do something else, and then on another paper or or the other side I will try to write my memorized list again based on what associations I find in my peg slots in memory "what do I think of with stick? A broken computer ..."
I have found that this is remarkably effective and easy for me. Daniel Love suggests using this method to help bring back memories from lucid dreams. Notice that this suggests that he understands that one may well forget dream details even from a lucid dream, even though one is more likely to remember those than from non-lucid dreams because of greater awareness in LDs improving memory.
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