Indeed it is important, mainly for dream recall, which also allows you to recall a lucid. Once I had a lucid and I remembered moments after I woke up. Also, in my case I think that writing the journal is what allowed me to wake up almost after every sleep cycle, with dream memories.
Before all this thing about lucid dreaming, dream journal, etc. I always told to people that "I sleep 8 straight hours". I would never get up to the bathroom or to drink water, and my feeling was that I would go to sleep at night (around 10-11PM), and wake up with the alarm clock (6-7AM), sometimes remembering a dream, sometimes not.
Now, I use to wake up at around 4am for first time, then 5.30am, and finally alarm clock at around 6.40am. And sometimes I even wake up at 1.30am or 2.30am. The thing is that I usually have a dream to write after every cycle. Some are really weird, small memories or just a scene (which I also write), and some others are amazing stories like being inside a movie being a special agent, jumping from moving trains trying to scape the army, etc...
And don't get fooled by thinking "I'm so confortable now.. I will write this dream later.. sure I will remember it". Because you probably won't. I've had empty journals some days the past couple weeks just because of this. And just tonight I felt tempted not to write, but I switched the light on, started writing and.... suddenly more dream memories came to my mind, which I also wrote.
So just writing them down not doing any special effort to recall anything, it triggers your memory for other dreams, or just allows you to recall previous moments of that same dream.
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