Sometimes I feel like I lose a memory of a dream I recently had, or even become unaware of an older dream that I had months or years ago. However, when I start falling asleep and begin to experience a dream state, I find my recall of other dreams to be higher. I could suddenly remember a detail I had forgotten or remember an entire dream I failed to recall. I'm intrigued by this because I could easily be imagining all this but the feeling is that I am literally recalling real dream experiences.

It seems possible because dreaming is a state and states trigger memories experienced within them. The potentialities can be huge.

I'm thinking when we are apt lucid dreamers, it could be possible that we use our dreams as states where we can recall "lost" dreams.

Has anyone had an experience like this, or better yet, successfully tried recalling a dream while in a dream? What are your thoughts on this?