Too Damn Sleepy to Write in Dream Journal =-/

Okay hi everyone, I'm new here but have always been fascinated by lucid dreaming and have had my share lucid dreams. I don't have trouble with dream recall but I certainly do have trouble writing in my dream journal at night. My hubby's snoring is my dream alarm, which seems to work because I wake up at precisely three stages of REM sleep during the night where I have a new dream in each stage. Perhaps it's just a coincidence that I wake up and my husband just happens to be snoring. Anyway, my problem lies in not being able to stay up long enough or even want to stay up long enough to write down my dreams. I do keep a scribble pad close to my bed where in the dark I write like three key words regarding the dream I had, although I know the ideal thing would be to write more but just writing those three or four key words is a struggle in itself! My body does not want to get up or even give it time. Then when I wake up in the morning I don't want to write in the journal either because I'm too groggy. So I wait to get to work to open my dream journal and elaborate on those three or four key words I wrote down at night and the memory comes flooding back of what my dream was about. The thing is, the dream where the memory is most vivid is that last dream...the one that was the longest. Would this be enough for me to be able to have lucid dreams? I didn't even have a dream journal before and my dream recall has improved, but is it enough to induce lucid dreams?

I think this is enough. I too don't write my dream journal at night. I write some key words and sentences that will make me remember later what happened. Then in the morning (at home or at work) i elaborate. If some dreams are forgotten, don't worry. You don't have to write ALL of your dreams.
You're doing fine.

Writing a few keywords down at night is perfect. And completing the stories in the morning or during day is also good. The point is to be thinking about dreams a lot. And when we write them down, we think about them and we also see what we wrote, so many senses are engaged in us "liking" our dream.

And I think you are waking up after each REM, because we all do. But most of us don't notice it. We just turn to the other side and continue sleeping.

Your recall seems to be good. It will most certainly not prevent you from ahving LDs. Throw some practice into it and you will succeed.

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Oh, and welcome to Dreamviews!

Thank you for responding to my post and for the warm welcome :) I love this site! I am writing every day or at least I try to write something...even if it's just to say I had too much to eat the night before and could barely remember anything but a fragment. I find it comforting to write in the dream journal...like it's some companion from another dimension. I truly love it!

If you have a smart phone or iPod I highly recommend getting a voice recording app and recording your dreams instead. It just takes a few minutes and you can get right back to sleep afterwards. I find this much easier than trying to write in the middle of the night.