I, too, will frequently remember a dream in the middle of the day, usually set off by a trigger-- an object, name, person, or word, even that was in the dream. And yes, it is very much like a flood. A flash flood...sudden, unexpected, and of huge impact on the moment.

Writing dreams down will help you remember your dreams more frequently and in more detail. You may find that you actually have many lucid dreams, but you only remember the ones you wake up in the middle of. I awoke at 4AM this morning after a nasty dream involving a man who kept coming into my room and talking at me. He didn't rape me or hit me, didn't even touch me, but he would get very close and talk and talk and talk and simply wouldn't go away. I finally had to stab him several times with a jagged knife. When I woke up I began writing furiously, and discovered that as I wrote I remembered more and more of the dream, and would have to go back and do inserts. I find writing on paper without lines helps, and keep one eye closed as you write. This allows your brain to lurk in part in the dream world (that is, if you are one of those woozey wakers) longer. One obsticle I'm dealing with currently is writing the plot out as I am very near to total conciousness, as frequently the nonsense of it simply can't be put into words, and I am naturally drawn to interpret my nocturnal meanderings.

The other day I had a coworker tell me about a dream he had the night before in which I made a cameo. I am not at all close to him, and my part in the dream was not signifigant, but his rush to tell me, to get it out, was fascinating. When he was done he said, "That's it." and we haven't spoken since. I frequently feel a necessity to tell my dreams, to sort them out and explore them....this fascination in lucidity and manipulation in an otherworld contained within my limits(for an individuals dreamworld is made up entirely and exclusively of what that individual is capable of), but which perhaps fills my limits to a greater degree than experience in the waking world.

I would have been a happy hippie *grin*

Dagmar