I've been slipping back into my remembered dreams from this past month. All NLDs. No memory whatsoever outside of that reality, however when I reflect on it my base awareness seems the same as in waking life.

I have a strong memory from when I was 5 or 6 months old. That base awareness seems no different than that of today, yesterday, last month, last year, 10 years ago or in my dreams. The only real difference I can discern is accumulated experience at any given point in time, and in a given dream I can't say I have access to any direct experience outside that dream.

So in the dream realm the missing ingredient seems to be not having anything experiential to juxtapose the awareness of the here & now against.

Granted the vast majority of my work this first month has centered around recall, and it seems to be paying off. I just started my second 100 page composition notebook, and I'm noticing some dreams are becoming incredibly vivid and detailed with continuity of plot (sometimes multiple plots) and decent length.

I practice mindfulness meditation daily and have been for the better part of 15 months and this last month I've been incorporating more mindfulness into my day as well as random RCs. The last week or so I've also incorporate PM RCs and the occasional RC when I do recognize anything unusual or a dream sign. The one thing I haven't yet been doing is setting my intention for lucidity, but that's mainly because I've been focusing my intentions like a laser on recall.

So, here's the question. How large a role does intention have in lucidity? Will strong intention set the stage and allow me to have that initial inkling something experiential just doesn't jibe, giving me that first little nudge toward lucidity?