Dream Sailor, awesome. now the important thing to me would be to recall the sentences you were writing. what were the words? i mean it don't really matter if we can remember what we read -after- we wrote it, but to remember what we wrote.

think of it this way. we all have thoughts. but writing is sort of consistent thought. it's focused. from the soup of our minds, feelings and images are formed into sentences. writing puts them into solid form. it's not because they're put onto paper that they're now solid so much as it is that our determination to focus in this tangible way of pen-to-paper has impressed the thoughts and feelings into our memory. it's like, we know that if we keep a journal of our daily life, when we read it years later we remember a lot more than only what we wrote. because those feelings and thoughts back then drove a whole at-the-time experience into our fore-conscience while we were writing and focusing so intently. we remember the sun and the waves and the seagulls and how we walked with our brother along the beach picking up seashells. we remember our summer vacation so clearly by only reading a few words.

i was just thinking that writing, or any concentrated action in a lucid dream would help retain memory! it would obviously need to be practiced. instead of running around doing flips off cliffs and flying to the clouds (as fun as that is), we'd have to practice focusing and remembering.

think of it. visualizing a painting while dreaming, and then waking to remember how it looked. how much better to actually experience painting it with each stroke, and remembering our thoughts when we drug that sharp yellow line across the canvas with our brush? " i remember thinking how this yellow was so perfect against this dark brown. i remember how i wanted it to look like sunlight. "

anyhow, this is my theory. i think it'll be something i practice after i am better at just making the lucid dream stable. that's my first step.