You should write down as much as you can, Rallan, but:
If journaling becomes a chore that you do not wish to do, or it causes anxiety by cutting too deeply into your day (or night's sleep, for that matter), then "as much as you can" might mean skipping a few dreams here and there, but still finding time and inclination to record a significant amount of your remembered dreams. In other words, comfortably recording some of your dreams (perhaps the most interesting or well-remembered in the morning) is much better than uncomfortably struggling to write down everything. That discomfort can at worst lead to a disinterest in writing anything down, and at best cause you to be anxious about doggedly recording your dreams, which would challenge your recall development, I think.
Also, I recommend that you do not use that "tagging" method, no matter how grandly folks tout it in the forums. I say this for a couple of reasons:
First, tagging, or jotting down what you feel are important cues that will remind you later of what you dreamed, does little to build your recall. It is the act of manually writing dreams down, in as much detail as possible, that seems to aid their storage in long-term memory; just jotting down a couple of words and hoping you'll remember the rest later based on those tags does not do that. Sure, you might be able to recall your dream later in the day based on those words, but not in a week, or a month. So even the tagging method will have you recording the dreams fully sometime the same day, lest they be lost for good. Also, there is no guarantee that those tags are as significant to the dream as you think upon waking (I can't tell you how many times I discovered far more important imagery surfacing as I went through the process of writing down a dream fully than what I thought was there (and significant) at first.
Next, and for me just as important, if you write your dreams down as completely as possible, you will have a written narrative of your dreams that you can enjoy rereading for years to come. With tagging, you will have a bunch of words that will mean pretty much nothing in a couple of days. I tried tagging for a year or so, with the same confidence that folks touting it hold today, and I eventually found myself with notebooks full of dates, times, and gibberish. This could just be me of course, but I'm not so sure.
I understand that I am an outlier on both of these points, and that you will likely hear a vocal defense of the tagging method shortly, so no worries if you totally disagree with me. Just remember that only you will be there to say "He told me so" in ten years when you are reviewing all those meaningless tags.
tl;dr: Write down as much as you can, but don't make the process a miserable one, and I suggest that you steer clear of that tagging method.
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