Well usually you wake up after each dream circle. You just don't remember it because you fall asleep almost instantly. That really was a problem when my father would wake me up in the morning and I couldn't remember him waking me up and slept for another half an hour)

Then I started with a dream journal. I don't do it anymore because I'm lazy, but I still remember waking up multiple times a night and remembering exactly what I just dreamed and notice the memory fading away.

When I journaled my dreams were extremely vivid. It isn't like this anymore but I still sometimes have lucid dreams even though I can't really stabilize and control them.

You're not supposed to remember your dreams. When you remember your dreams it's when you were woken unexpectedly, or when you consciously or unconsciously fled the dream before returning it to the Dreammaster.

We only borrow our dreams from him every night, but when we leave a dream prematurely we are stealing that dream - bringing it into our reality and hiding it away in our memories.

However precious or horrid your stolen dreams may be, remember that the Dreammaster will claim them back from you. He always does, in the end.