Quote Originally Posted by Voldmer View Post
This is thought provoking, and my current thought is this: words and sentences are properties of the physical universe; they were designed to categorize experiences, and when applied to experiences from dream universes they help "bring the dream into the physical universe", so to speak. If no words are applied to whatever is experienced, the experience may not make it into waking awareness, and thus no dream recall. At times I dream in a kind of silent awareness of whatever is going on, during which time I never mentally verbalize or categorize anything (personally, I consider this astral projections, but YMMV). These trips can go on for a long time, with lots happening, but generally I have relatively little recall of the kinds of things that took place. I have only a meager story to tell myself afterwards, and I generally don't even have names for many of the things witnessed.
Boy, I can relate! Someone said they thought everyone remembered all their lucids. Not the case with me at all. I can work up to having great vivid recall for some types of dreams, but you mention the whole astral travel thing. I would describe it the same. Some adventures take place that must have been a long story, but often the things witnessed make sense, at the time, in a confusing way you do not think about, and then when awake the ideas are so removed from this existence very few words will come to describe what was experienced.