Quote Originally Posted by 4thDimension View Post
(...) When you wake up after a dream, just write a few key words from the dream. Later on when you are up to journaling, these key words will allow you to remember most if not all of the dream in surprising detail. (...)
This.

I did this a couple times on the middle of the night mainly because I felt soooo sleepy and tired that I wanted to go back to sleep as soon as possible, but is not a bad idea as a general rule. It's almost unbelievable that when you wake up with the alarm clock, you try to remember the dream without "cheating", but it's almost impossible (unless it was a VERY special dream for some reason), and when you look at the notebook and see a huge list of keywords it's just.... amazing, how it all comes to mind, like a dark 10km tunnel on a highway being lit up inch by inch, showing it's walls and floor.

Also, I use to do this on the morning. While writting a long dream suddenly another previous one pops in mind, so I stop for a moment and write keywords on a side. Sometimes I even forget that dream when finishing the first one, but I can get it back looking at the keywords.

Quote Originally Posted by FryingMan View Post
(...) much easier to understand sleepy voice notes than sleepy chicken scribbles the next morning. (...)
And this
Sometimes I find it really hard to read a dream I wrote....


So yeah, basically the conclusion is that DJ is a great tool, not just for lucidity, but also to discover lots of dreams that else would just get forgotten.