^^ I must agree with Louai, here, Steph; I'm pretty sure LaBerge got that bit about missing LD's for lack of dream recall wrong.

Since LD's are waking-consciousness events, they are stored in memory just like any other waking-life events. Also, given that most LD's (especially the "surprise" ones) are extremely memorable events, I believe that they are events that would not only be easily remembered (as in straight into long-term memory), but they would be very hard to forget.

Dream recall is of course very important on its own, because it does things like train your mind to pay attention to your dreams, allow you a chance to look for repeating dreamsigns, and give you a foundation for expectation/intention (i.e., recalling dream places to which you'd like to return). So dream recall matters, but I really do not think that we are all forgetting LD's on a regular basis.

I'm not sure why LaBerge drew this conclusion, or whether he still believes it, but forgetting LD's simply does not agree with the nature of a LD as the waking-consciousness event that LaBerge himself has defined. A strange contradiction on his part, I think.

This, therefore, might not be the real solution. Dream recall is a very good thing, but not for the sake of remembering LD's that you might have otherwise forgotten.