Glad to be of assistance. There's no doubt, a good LD is a truly amazing experience, but even just remembering multiple dreams per night, especially when they're kind of wild and wacky & fun, always puts a smile on my face. The more effort you work on dream recall, and on LDing in general, the more you'll remember of your dreams since you'll be more aware in them, to the point where finally you get lucid. You can never have enough recall (BrandonBoss especially stresses this), we dream all night long, most of it is forgotten, really try to retain as much of it as you can, and you'll learn alot about your dreams and just enjoy your nights a lot more! The more you know what your dreams are like, the more the chances to become lucid.
If you're not already waking up multiple times per night to remember dreams, you might try setting this intention at bed time: "I wake up after every dream, remain still, and recall my dreams". Some warn that such an intention can have the effect of REALLY waking you fully up and being hard to get back to sleep. But I used it for most of my 6 months so far, and indeed woke up alot during the night and worked on recall, and really soon I was remembering 3-4 dream scenes per waking.
Lately I'm not so enthusiastic about waking up a lot and set a more mild intention: "I notice when my dream has ended, remain still, recall the dream, and DEILD back in" (as I'm working more on DEILD now). I still notice my waking around 5-7 hours, make mental notes about dreams a few times, and get back to sleep for one or two more sleep cycles and dreaming, then record in the morning. It's worked so far this week. I may forget the really early morning dreams (3hrs), but I'm sleeping well and getting rest, and still remembering at least 7 scenes per night or more, some of them very long.
Also, try play acting. During the day, repeat to yourself, "I'm a master lucid dreamer, every dream is lucid, I'm lucid all night long," etc., etc. Strut around the bedroom at bedtime, *knowing* you'll have all those lucids because you're a master lucid dreamer. And don't let yourself get upset if they don't come, just stay positive, KNOW you can and you will. This is something else I do too, especially in dry spells.
To the OP: one dream a night is good, but more is better. Try to remember at least one dream per waking, and wake up naturally several times per night (and at least note down a keyword or two, then get back to sleep). The really good LDers have great recall, and developing recall is something you can absolutely do even without lucids.
edit: here's how I do recall. Unless I've had a lucid or a very aware dream where I smoothly transition from dream to awake while aware, I find myself awake in bed without any dreams in my memory. Before moving (this is not always easy, to suppress the roll over signal, but really try to work on it), I ask myself, "What was I just dreaming about?" And just wait quietly for the dreams to come in, and 99% of the time some recall comes in, and then that triggers a flood of memories. The more you do this, the better you get at it. Try to recall further and further back into the dreams, once you get a memory, ask "what was I dreaming about before that? And before that? And before that?....etc.".
Also, a few times during the day, replay your day backwards in your mind, in as much detail as you can manage. Accessing memory is an important ability to develop as accessing memory is one of the pillars of lucid dreaming (the other being self-awareness).
And if you're not already, sign up for the DV academy classes, and by all means go read through all of Sageous's WILD class materials, even if you don't try WILD, learning the fundamentals will really help you out.
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