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I recently got a dream journal and Im trying to use it to my advantage. Unfortunately I have a terrible recall in the morning and I have a hard time falling asleep so I dont get much sleep to have dreams. However I did recall a dream the other morning and wrote it down which I felt good about.
Anyways I have a question about what I write down. Is it better to try and write down most of what happened or just jot down notes about my dreams?
Im trying to decide what way to go so that it will help me to have a better recall and eventually have a lucid dream and remember it.
Thanks for any help given!

For me, it depends on how much I remember. If I remember only one short scene, I'll write down every detail. But my recall ability is high right now, and I'm remembering multiple long dreams every night. When this started, I wrote down every detail, and it sometimes took an hour or two to record my dreams. If you're remembering that much, it becomes impractical to write down every detail.

I've found it helps to pretend I'm writing a story. Some detail is okay, to make the reader feel like the scene is real, but too much is excessive and becomes boring. This makes it more entertaining for me to go over my dreams later, on other days, or maybe in months or years. While reading them later after I've forgotten them, I won't really care the exact dimensions of a cave I was in, nor about which side the entrance was on, but I will care about the main storyline, and maybe about the general 'atmosphere' of the cave and how dark it was.

As long as you remember the details while writing down your dreams, whether you actually write down the specific details or not should have virtually no effect on your recall ability, or so it seems to me.

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Originally Posted by Dianeva

For me, it depends on how much I remember. If I remember only one short scene, I'll write down every detail. But my recall ability is high right now, and I'm remembering multiple long dreams every night. When this started, I wrote down every detail, and it sometimes took an hour or two to record my dreams. If you're remembering that much, it becomes impractical to write down every detail.

I've found it helps to pretend I'm writing a story. Some detail is okay, to make the reader feel like the scene is real, but too much is excessive and becomes boring. This makes it more entertaining for me to go over my dreams later, on other days, or maybe in months or years. While reading them later after I've forgotten them, I won't really care the exact dimensions of a cave I was in, nor about which side the entrance was on, but I will care about the main storyline, and maybe about the general 'atmosphere' of the cave and how dark it was.

As long as you remember the details while writing down your dreams, whether you actually write down the specific details or not should have virtually no effect on your recall ability, or so it seems to me.

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I fully agree and I do pretty much the same thing.
I'd say, as long as your dream recall isn't as good as you want it to be though, write down as many details as you remember.
If you feel that you don't remember enough details, set yourself goals to remember more specific details every dream.
This helped me increase the details I remembered a lot.

Good luck!

Thank you both very much for the tips! I will keep them in mind from now on and hopefully make my recall better and then I can share my dreams :cheeky: