Not *all* of my lucid dreams are nightmarish: often I can just shrug and go "maybe I'll remember and maybe I won't, nothing I can do about it right now either way, might as well operate under the assumption I will since that's more useful". I'm pretty sure the deciding factor is whether or not I was *reading* something. Text has so much *detail*: even if I remember the dream at all, there's no way I'm gonna remember word-for-word what it said. Something is *definitely* going to be lost. Other dreaming mes have a chance, but readers are always doomed.

(...I feel like there is probably some interesting relationship between this and the fact that I know large chunks of my blog by heart.)