don’t do you RCs at random times during the day. you probably already know about this, since most of LD guides suggest that you chose specific times where you’re supposed to do your RCs, but none of them, at least none of those I’ve read, really insists on this point or explains the reason behind it.
here’s my explanation according to my short experience with RCs.
when you chose to check the reality at random times during the day, your mind is relaxed concerning this point, the RC matter isn’t loaded into your memory, you just do what you do during your day, until it strikes that you haven’t done a RC for a while, and you do it. so if you do 50 RCs per day (this is just an exemple), and if it takes you 1 min to do a serious RC, then at the end of the day, you will have thought about RCs for 5O min.
now if you pick specific occasions where you HAVE to do a RC, a part of your mind will stay alert all the time, waiting for the predefined condition for RCing, and that’s why, if you do only 20 RCs per day (1 min each), you’ll have fully thought about RCs for 20min, but the RC matter will have remained in your mind/memory for the whole day, thanks to your alertness about it, thanks to that “little something” taking that little space in your “RAM” (in comparison with computers).
In a dream, your lucidity may be triggered just just by that “little something” you may not rememeber, you may become lucid without the direct implication of a RC, or a dreamsign, you may become lucid just being aware of something your mind is trying to keep active in memory, like when you memorize a new phone number and try to keep the information in your memory all the time, reducing it but never closing it (in comparison with a computer again).
this is my little analysis, again only according to my own short experience, if you’re using the first method of RCing as I did for a while, maybe you should try the second.
now my question about DJs.
I don’t have problems remembering my dreams. I can remember 7 dreams in one night sometimes, with an average of 5 per night, but not all of them are clear.
sometimes I can write a page in my DJ, sometimes only 1 or 2 lines.
if I don’t have problems with my dream recall, should I stop recording those “1 line dreams” and keep only the developed ones, or are those fragements of dreams important as well, and diserve to be kept in my DJ along with the long ones?