Anywhere between 100 and 2,000 depending on how long the dream is, how much I remember and whether I was lucid. My longest was 2,671 (which involved five false awakenings), but I rarely go above 2,000.
I started dream journalling as a means of practising recall, thus my general approach was to describe as much detail as I could remember, so I tend to write a lot about room layouts, colours, brightness, sounds, feelings, and any other things I may have noticed. I see many journals that seem to omit these things, and mostly only focus on actual events. The only descriptions I omit are elements from my real life (places, people, etc.), since I don't really see any need to describe my bedroom or my parents unless they differ some way from the real world.
I almost always voice record my dreams first so I don't forget details when I write them up later, since its so much easier and less intrusive than having to open my eyes, switch a light on, get up and write. But even then, a single recording can stretch up to fifteen minutes. But it's surprising how often I listen to a recording later in the evening only to hear things that I've completely forgotten over the day. Such results speak for themselves and demonstrate clearly to me that recording is very much worthwhile.
The voice recordings are also good for capturing some of the emotion in my reaction to a dream, but I often find the recordings harder to relate back to the original dreams when listening to them months or years later. It doesn't help that I often describe details out of order as I remember them, so the recordings sometimes aren't a chronologically-ordered record of events.
The written versions work much better in that regard, since I can easily edit them to make sure details are accurate and events are in order. A written description is much easier to share too.
I sometimes go back to read and/or listen to my old dreams; I've even still got all of my audio recordings - hundreds of them - since I first discovered this site and started lucid dreaming way back in 2005, including my very first lucid dream where my excitement can clearly be heard in my voice.
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