I was on Youtube watching this guy's series on Lucid Dreaming, and he showed me something really interesting. He doesn't use Dream Journals (During the night anyway), instead he uses a voice recorder.

It's genius! Instead of fumbling around in the dark trying to find your pen, turn on the lamp, look up your dream journal, position yourself, write the dream down, turn off the lamp, put the pen down, go back to your sleeping position.

Why do all that when you can just click a button and start talking without moving at all? Or better yet, there's digital voice recorders out there that have ALARMS built into them, AND voice activation... so you don't even have to press a button. You just talk and it'll turn on automatically and record. No turning on the lights, no flipping pages, etc.

Now, the dream journal should still be there. The next day, when you sit down to listen to yours dreams (After work, or before sleep), sift through the good/bad and write down the big important visually memorable dreams in a nice dream journal, when you're wide awake and can actually comprehend the english language.

So, I've decided to buy myself a digital voice recorder. They're pretty cheap on ebay... you can get one that records like 90 hours for 30 - 40 bucks. Just making this topic to maybe suggest the same idea to Oneironauts that haven't really thought much about dream journaling, and do it out of habit. Here's a link to the video.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=HEyUaoCv6lM