[Pooka]

If you wake up in the middle of the night, a REM cycle probably just ended, and there's a better chance of remembering the dream you had then than in the morning. If you keep a notepad by your bed, scribble down a few details to expand upon in the morning.

I'm re-improving my dream recall (I slacked off for a few months), and I find that as I get back into the swing of writing my dreams down, bits and pieces of them will occur to me all day. If you have any indication of what order you dreamt them in, try to write them down like that. I often find that I'll remember another dream that came after my recorded ones.

I like to record things that occur to me as I record my dreams, like 'eagles obviously can't be that big, if that happens again, it's a dreamsign!' and stuff. I also record if I approached or attained lucidity, in case I can repeat approaches.

Good luck with your dream recall! I started out with remembering one or two dreams a night and right now I'm at four or five plus scraps, so it definately becomes easier as you go on.