you write your dreams down in the night, or when you wake up for good?

[yuppie11975]

Just curious

[Marm]

In the mornings, when I wake up.

[Arch]

In the morning when you wake up, that is when it dream will be clear to you. Also, if you wake up in night, still write it down.

[Darkmatters]

Depends. If I wake up in the middle of the night and don't feel like I'll be getting back to sleep for a while, or remembering an amazing dream I don't want to forget, then I'll jot it down then and there... possibly just keywords or maybe entirely. Otherwise I'll usually just sort of recite the dream to myself in my head to try to impress it on my memory as well as possible and drift back to sleep. OR... if I wake up from a dream and feel like I can get right back to sleep, then it's DEILD attempt time baby!!

[Oneironaut Zero]

Yeah, it depends on the situation. If I wake up for good, I jot down any notes I remember, then use those to write the full dream out, whenever I have more time. If I wake up early, I jot a few notes down and usually try to get back to sleep for a WBTB. Sometimes, though, I want to just try an immediate dream re-entry, so if I feel myself waking up, I'll just relax where I am and float back to sleep. It's often harder to remember the initial details of the (previous) dream, when doing that, but oh well.

[Marm]

In the morning when you wake up, that is when it dream will be clear to you. Also, if you wake up in night, still write it down. Lol I love the similarity between our posts above. The only difference is that you've bothered to explain in more depth. Kudos to you

[Puffin]

I always wake up in the middle of the night; during this time I write scribbles of what I dreamed about on the paper at my bedside. I don't turn the lights on or anything, because sometimes the bright lights wipe my dream memory clean. I write just enough info to be able to recall the full dream in the morning, and that's when I type it up here. So for me it's kind of a mixed bag, 50/50.

[Choi]

If I wake up randomly on the night I write some quick notes of what I remember and then go back to sleep again. Before I get out of bed in the morning I also write down notes. But if I had a lucid dream I don't need to write it down at all.

[quiktaco]

I usually wake up about 3-5 times through the night between sleep cycles, and I'll always (90% of the time at least), get out of bed and write down everything in full detail. It will take me a half hour or more sometimes, but it seems to work pretty well. I don't feel like I'm loosing sleep doing this either, since it's between cycles. If I don't do this, I usually won't remember all that much toward morning time. When I get out of bed, I slip down to the side of my bed where I have my DJ open and ready to go. I have a red LED light bar pointed toward my journal, but blocked from my eyes. It lights everything just well enough that I can see what I'm writing without affecting my eye dilation. I'll sit there with my eyes closed, recalling the dream...usually starting from the end, and tracing it back toward the beginning. Any notes that I remember that I can't write in full right away, get written on the side bar, and I'll come back to all of those, and make sure I wrote out that segment of the dream. I find this works well for me. The last two weeks though, I've been having bad allergies, kind of on the edge of being sick, so I've not been getting out of bed nearly as much, and my dream journal and recall is really suffering.

[Pandabear]

I write them down. If it's outsite WBTB, it's notes, but in WBTB I normally write it all down, detailed, also to become more awake.

[Mancon]

If I wake up in the middle of the night, I write down the dream I remember then. If I wake up in the morning, I write down all the dreams I remember. So basically whenever I wake up, in the night or morning. In the morning, I write my dreams down in detail but when I wake up in the night I just write down key points so I can go back to sleep

[yuppie11975]

Great answers from all! What should I do when DEILDing? Not much I can do I guess..

[Choi]

Great answers from all! What should I do when DEILDing? Not much I can do I guess.. It's not law to write down all the dreams you remember, if you want to DEILD, why does it matter if you don't remember some dreams if you get a lucid dream, which is the goal anyway?

[Naiya]

I always jot down dreams as soon as I wake up. It's best to write them down asap

[gab]

I have a flashligh and a notebook right next to my pillow and I write down my dream as I wake up from it (up to 4-5 times a night). If I don't, I regret it in the morning, when I don't remember the dream I know I had.