The goal-finger assignment idea already mentioned seems like a good idea. I might try it too - but usually I just think about my dream goals and visualise myself carrying them out, or remember the intention. One thing I do other than intentions (if my intentions feel weak at some point) is to remember why I want to carry out those dream goals (the desire I have for carrying them out) and imagine being satisfied with the result to up my motivation.
I also keep a written list so I can keep track of exactly what dream goals I wish to do and can check them off when I've completed them as well as add or take off goals once in a while (because editing and tweaking my list brings my motivation for my goals to the front of my mind), but I don't carry it around with me constantly and frequently rely on it so I can practice prospective memory. If I'm constantly keeping a written list I'm not exercising my prospective memory as much.
If you're having trouble with dream goal intentions currently then it's fine for you to try something else since you should find something that works for you, but if you struggle with intentions then it may be due to the strength/level of your prospective memory, so trying to improve your prospective memory might help you and you might find your intentions easier to remember/become more effective. Prospective memory is our ability to remember now to do something in the future. If you improve prospective memory, then intentions may not seem as difficult and you might actually warm up to using intentions. Or, if you'd still rather try something other than intentions, then improving prospective memory can help you with remembering dream goals in general, whether you try to do so by constant intentions or not - since most efforts to help you remember dream goals will involve your prospective memory or aiding your prospective memory to some degree and in some way. This might help:
In "Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming", Stephen LaBerge explains how MILD requires good prospective memory (since you're trying to remember to do something in the future - you're trying in waking life to remember to become aware in your dreams later on when you go to sleep). Normally, prospective memory is something that we are only average at (or some even bad at) - because if we want to remember to do something in the future we often make a physical written reminder instead of relying on our own internal memory to remind us to do it later (when it needs to be done) and if we are not motivated to do something later on, or don't care about it, then we're probably going to forget to do it when the time comes. In the book, LaBerge gives an exercise that helps improve prospective memory for the sake of aiding in MILD (and remembering in you're dreams the intention to become aware that you set before while you were awake), but since remembering to do a dream goal in your dreams that you set while you were awake is also prospective memory, this exercise can also help improve prospective memory for remembering dream goals as well.
Basically, for every day of the week you have a certain number of targets provided (in the book there is a list of the days of the week with four daily targets for each day) and you try to, throughout your day, remember to notice your targets as they happen (eg. let's say my daily targets might be "seeing red cars", "hearing someone call my name", "getting a phone call", and "hearing someone speak in a foreign language" - I need to remember to recognise and notice when these things happen - when I see a red car, I need to remember to notice it happen and take note of the red car, but without keeping the list of targets on me and reminding myself to look out for these targets simply using memory.)
I'm not sure if I want to give you the list from LaBerge's book (which would make this reply even longer), but you could write down a list of four daily targets or more for each day and then, at the end of the day, count up how many times you saw the targets - the key is not to remember that you saw the target AFTER you saw it because you forgot about noting the targets at the time that you actually saw the target (for eg. let's say, I see a red car at lunch time as I'm crossing the road but forget my target and thus take no notice of it, but then at dinner hours later that night remember my target and go "oh! I saw a red car at lunch time, didn't I?") because that is retrospective memory (remembering back on something), you need to remember the targets so you notice them as you encounter them (prospective memory). There is an existing thread about this exercise that also gives a list of daily targets, but I don't know where it is a the moment. If I find the thread, I might come back and post a link to it.
Although it may not seem directly helpful to straight up remembering your dream goals, if you improve your prospective memory than remembering your dream goals will at least become gradually easier.
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