I'm no stranger to longer dreams; most dreams I have, seem to span days, weeks, even months in some cases, it is, in other words, quite normal for me to have dreams that are daunting to write down, and I often cannot record any dream without spending at least half an hour writing - not thinking about it, just purely writing. Tonight I had what I would consider to be my most dense dream, by which I mean while the time span of it wasn't really impressive, spanning not more than a month, I'm sure, the dream itself had a lot going on (perhaps because I slept about 13 hours, but hey); in the end, I took 40 minutes to write what I'd call a draft of the dream with about 90% of detail left off. This always feels very disappointing to me, and I always struggle with the idea of leaving off the detail, but I feel like if I didn't, I'd take about 2 hours or so to write it all, and frankly I just don't have that kind of time in the morning.

The question is: how do you deal with these kinds of dreams that are so big and so full of events you simply don't have the time to write them down in detail? Should I be thinking less about detail? I've always thought about writing major milestones, and later trust my subconscious to remember what happened in detail. Another think I considered was somehow using automatic writing to output these, since many reports show automatic writing to be much faster than normal writing, albeit with hard to control results; what are your thoughts about this?

Any help and opinions are much appreciated; thank you in advance.