^^ Though that exercise seems an excellent method for reestablishing your presence in the moment, and in your local waking-life reality, I must continue to say that using episodic memory is not the best tool for reconnecting with memory in a dream; I simply have too much faith in the dreaming mind to produce as many fictitious "memories" as you require, just as it would if you were not lucid. And yes, you would follow back along a path of recent events, perhaps even to the point where you remember that you took a nap, and every memory you "recall" is an unconscious fabrication... and I would not be surprised if you never came across a nap as you surveyed those memories.
For example: You are dreaming that you are in your college room, and have come to assume that you are lucid*. So you start remembering: you remember the last place you were, high above the dorm roof in a hot air balloon whose basket is filled with water, then you go back further to the time you spent at the campus beach, watching whales, then further back to your grandmother's kitchen with a bunch of your college friends, drinking her whiskey, and then...well, you get the point. Suffice it to say that your dreaming mind will furnish all the memories you need, and you will be fine with all of them -- even if lucid, because you have no conscious connection with your memory, and this no benchmark from which to compare and say, "Hey, this is all wrong."
However, on the off-chance that your dreaming mind does let you walk back through created memories to one that includes a nap, I suppose there is a chance that you might indeed wonder if you are napping still, and do a RC... of course, all that RC will do is confirm that you are lucid, which is a thing you already knew; you would still not be connected to your memory.
And however again (I just thought of this), there is also a chance that, as you are perusing all those false memories that seem just fine, lucid "you" might notice the oddness of those memories, which is a step in the right direction -- though you would still need to reconnect with your memory to confirm that oddity; perhaps by, say, remembering your sleeping body.
So, though this seems an excellent daytime exercise, and maybe a good exercise to do after you've reconnected to memory, it seems a very roundabout way to make the connection, when all you had to do in the first place was remember your sleeping body.
As I said before, I don't think that using specific memories to regain access to memory is the best way to go, especially when there is such a simple way of doing it without the mental gymnastics of sifting through specific memories that may or may not be false.
* Keep in mind also that accessing memory is something you do after you are lucid, in order to amplify your lucidity to a complete waking-life level, so things like RC's would likely already have been done.
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