So... I think that this should help most people that are needing help with goals. I am not great, but I am getting better and better with leaps and bounds. I have about 7-14 LDs a week right now, and I remember my goals in like... 70% of them.

I started LDing a couple years ago (my lucidversary thread: http://www.dreamviews.com/attaining-...00-lucids.html) and I have had big issues with remembering goals. I would become lucid and great amounts of control after practice, but I was remembering my goals in like 10% of my dreams. This was annoying because all of my goals are things that take a lot of LDs to complete and I needed a change. I started looking at the dreams that I remembered goals and analyzing them.

In every dream that I remembered goals it would go something like this:
I realize that I am dreaming. I stop and either RC or look around. I am standing still and start remembering my goals. I pick one and go for it.

It doesn't matter where I am at, or what I see, this is what the dream entails. Not much help right? It seems random, but one thing is different than LDs that I normally had. I stopped and stood still for a bit, sometimes I would just walk slowly and look at the scenery. I started looking at this as something to bring into my every day routine. Instead of just "I'm dreaming" (Or "dream" as it is shortened now), I connected the thought to slowing down. I don't have to literally slow down, because my technique and experience has taught me that it isn't what you do throughout the day that goes into your dreams, it is what goes through your mind, and visual stimuli is one of the least, unless attention is paid to it.

So I also put it at the top of my goals list, and it worked... kind of. I started slowing down in almost every dream, but I didn't remember my goals. I was a little ticked, until one morning i woke up and realized something, I couldn't remember my goals in waking. I checked my goals list on my phone and remembered the SAO menu and fighting.
So I have to at least have other goals in mind enough to bring it up at any time of day.

This is helpful for becoming lucid as well, because normally people have an inkling that they are dreaming, if they slow down, they will become lucid.




Simple enough right?
Slow down is now your top goal
You have to be able to remember your second goal at any time of day

Good luck, if you have any questions, ask. If you succeed or fail, you should report here as well. It took a good month for it to start succeeding, so if you come back with a fail story before then, I won't be happy with the effort .