Quote Originally Posted by puppycat View Post
But you remember that you had it, correct? What I'm saying is that it is impossible to know if you "completley forget" a lucid dream (right when you wake up). If you completley forgot it, how would you even know that you forgot it?
I'm pretty sure that's not what the OP is referring to.

To the OP: It is common knowledge around these boards that lucid dreams are forgotten almost as easily as nonlucid dreams. Any difference in recall between the two is, IMHO, due entirely to novelty and not to any fundamental difference in the brain state itself. As I often tell people, "lucid dreams are still dreams."

Personally, I have forgotten nearly as many lucid dreams as I have recalled. Perhaps more - I tend to go through periods where I am lax about keeping up with my dream journal, which is basically the worst habit possible for dream recall.

Quote Originally Posted by Pensive Patrick View Post
* I have spent literally HOURS scouring this damn book again trying to find the exact passage, but it seems to have dissappeared. I'm going to reread the book again, and when I find it, i'll quote it.
I think that you are mistaken in the exact wording of the passage that you are looking for. Nearly everyone is familiar with the experience of spontaneously recalling a dream hours after waking up upon encountering something that relates to the content of that dream. I'm sure you have experienced this as well. It is certainly easiest to recall a dream directly after waking from it, but this is not the only way that it can ever be done.