DeDromer

I'm really struggling in the last two weeks with recalling my dreams. I'm having incredibly long dreams every night where i fail to remember what I do, but they feel never ending. This time anyway i have something to journal.

Out of curiosity, what do you remember about these lengthy dreams? I often find that dreams can trade of interest and excitement for length, as in the most exciting dreams with the best plotlines and ideas are also among the shortest, while more mundane dreams can last much longer. The reason I mention this is that oftentimes more exciting dreams can be easier to remember. When a dream is interesting, I can go for days without writing it down and still easily recall all the details, but on less exciting dreams I'll be lucky to recall it fully even if I document it immediately upon waking up.

Longer dreams that are uninteresting could be taxing on your motivation to document. I am very fast at typing, and have the capacity to document these longer dreams or chains of long NLDs without too much trouble. (If you want to see what I'm talking about, try reading some of my entries from spellbee's summer comp. I'm pretty sure one of them had upwards of 3,000 words documenting seven long nonlucids, and that was from a single night) But if you want to save yourself the carpal tunnel syndrome. (Or just don't remember the whole thing.) It's best to summarize the key points of longer and less interesting dreams, unless you're really aiming to build up some better dream recall.

tl;dr. In your case, try and at least summarize those long dreams. Write down anything you can grasp at; feelings, images, characters.

Hi, with an incredible delay, I want to thank you for your answer.
I'm not sure what happened, but after having struggled for weeks with dream recall, now I have less problems but I couldn't find the motivation to journal and reality check. The result is obvious: not a single lucid dream.

To answer you directly, my ultra long dreams were boring as hell, as I mostly did completely normal things, but just in different context. In many of my dreams my brain cares not only about creating a situation in a location, it also creates an history. For example in one of my dreams I was a Russian knight and the young was totally validated by my memories, where I just never was living in my actual country. The story was consistent with the assumption but boring as hell. What does a knight do when he doesn't do anything special? He eats, he sleeps, he urinated, he drinks, he speaks with people, and that I did in a timeline that was feeling months long.

Now I have a different problem, that I have to restart all over again.