[jorvi]

You forgot the most important step: keep a dream log so you actually start to remember your dreams! Otherwise you might have a lucid one but either forget it during the remainder of your sleep, or forget it within a few minutes of waking up.

[bloomthrowaway]

yes, or get in the habit of ruminating on the dream for a while still in bed. Whenever I have a nice lucid dream I lay in bed and run it through my memory over and over for a couple minutes. Otherwise some mysterious process will clear any figment of the dream from your memory within an hour or so