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.
Bookmarks