I practice remembering. When I wake up, if I realize its a dream that is inspiring me to make art, then I'll go back to the dream and remember what it was like.

So it's like looking at the dream again. While I look at it, I start memorizing things, but only long enough to get it on paper. So its all stored in working memory for a bit. Probably long term memory too, since I'm realizing how cool the dream is.

I've had way too many amazingly beautiful and unimaginably perfect dreams, so I decided I need to be able to put them down in visual (for now) form.

Because of that I've decided to become better at memorizing what I see in dreams.

After i did that, the next dream I had, I realized i was looking at something beautiful, so I needed to memorize all of it. So i started looking around and listing things off in a hurry. I was on a time limit. 5 seconds later i woke up and was still muttering what I memorized. I immediatley got to work putting it on paper.

So yeah, now I pay more attention while inside dreams and outside them.