Did I do the right thing?

[MrHiggs]

I woke up this morning from a non-lucid dream (for real). and I could only remember fragments. I was torn between getting the fragments written down in my dream journal and not bothering with that and forcing myself to go back into the dream. I decided to get up for 15 minutes and write down what I could remember in a kind of frenzy (wanting to get back to bed to rejoin it MILD style). In fact I was not that bothered in grasping for it really and anything lucid would have been welcome. In the event I had no more dreams that morning I feel like kicking myself for not going back to sleep straight away after wakening but I also half feel that I did well to get the details down and I did notice that the act of doing that did pull a few more out from my memory (but not all the detail that I had wanted) So... my question... did I make the best decision? I kinda feel in two minds about it. If I had gone back to sleep straight away maybe all the info would gave come back and I would have had total recall (great movie) + a more lucid experience? Another hurdle is that I'm having trouble getting to sleep. I only discovered LD this week and thinking about it has kinda taken over my mind and is interfering somewhat with my ability to get to sleep (despite my meditation experience). I think I need to have some serious excercise today to tire me out. Do we count the starting point for the sleep cycles from the point we first fall asleep or from the time we get into bed?