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By increasing lucidity, we're trying to be make what was previously unimportant to us important to us. By trying to recall more of our dreams, we are also trying to make what was previously unimportant to us important to us.
Dream recall is an exercise of episodic memory. Events that are recorded into episodic memory may trigger episodic learning, i.e. a change in behavior that occurs as a result of an event. This learning can result in increased self-awareness in the future.
Very well said. I think we are returning again to the discussion on LD fundamentals, as Sageous likes to mention. May be we also have to find a role for waking life memory or recall in the "dream recall - lucidity relationship". But in a sense, self awareness and dream recall must also implicitly involve waking life memory, and vice versa, and it seems hard to separate one from the other, but i know someone could probably explain it better or have a different opinion.