I'm really struggeling with the motivation for keeping a dream journal. It it just too time consuming. I have a lot of dreams; long ones with a lot of crazy stuff happening, and it takes foreeever to write it down. Sometimes the dreams are so abstract that it's very hard to describe them with words. I've tried just jotting down key words, but in my opinion that's just the same as writing nothing. Doesn't help recall one bit, no more than just thinking about the dream when I wake up. For me it's got to be all or nothing.

I'm wondering if any of you have succeeded with lucid dreaming without keeping a dream journal? I have good recall, always have, even without writing down dreams. Is the DJ really that important for success? Could it be enough to just spend 5 to 10 minutes thinking about my dreams and recall each morning? Writing them down just takes too long! I can't spend close to an hour writing down dreams each and every day!? *sigh*