This is a great thread, I have in fact been thinking about memory and access to memory and that I've probably been neglecting it. It's wonderful that you've brought it up.

In Memm's recent great note in my 2015 "year of the breath" resolucid & "blog" thread, he introduces the notion of getting it into your head that your job at night is to rest and to lucid dream: to *remember* that in dreams, our goal is to remember to recognize the dream state.

In fact, access to memory may be the final obstacle in my way to much more frequent, and much more aware/awesome LDs. My LD foundation is teetering over, not in balance, on the side of the leg of "memory" I strongly suspect.

At the end of the OP you gave a few suggestions for concrete steps to improve it. I'd be interested in reading more about approaches to do so.