Quote Originally Posted by Sageous View Post
LD's being waking-life consciousness events of, often, some personal import, are vastly easier to remember, often in great detail and as meaningful moments that have already been stored in long-term memory when you wake up. NLD's, on the other hand, are generally discarded by your memory systems as you begin to wake up, so remembering even the most vivid of dreams can be very difficult.
This resonates with my personal experience.

My early sleep cycle dreams tend to lack any degree of lucidity and they dissipate quickly upon waking while most nights the dreams that come in later sleep cycles have varying degrees of lucidity and stay with me with great clarity. Even if I have not made a "lucid move" in these dreams, I am able to recall my thoughts and my deliberate interactions with DC's in very clear detail.....sometimes for days or even longer.