Well, If you want to have more dream recall, 100% reliable method is increasing your intake of specifically Tyrosine and Phenylalanine. This also will raise your sleep arousal baseline and interfere with deep sleep. However, if done deliberately during the day, with some method you have of inducing sleep, you could use this to practice lucid dreaming.

Personally, I consider lucid dreaming to be a total waste of time. No more useful than incantations and knife/wand/cup/disk rituals or any other such machinations, but in the 'shamanic' form. Manipulating the dream space in order to embed conscious will into the unconscious.

Personally, I like the surprises of leaving the bigger picture of my spiritual path up to the design of the system.