hi, newbie, wants advice

hi, i started a dream journal this morning and i just thought i'd post it for you :)

I was in a shop with a friend called Rhian, I asked her if it was okay to use a yule coin here - shaped like a thimble but on its top it had the same engravings the back of a 20 pence piece - because i seemed to think you could only use it as part of a purchase along with other coins. the woman behind the counter had shoulder-length black hair and brown eyes, and although she wasn't her i think she was based on an ugly woman i met called justine. Rhian said aside to me that she'd tried to use one before but they didn't let her, it seemed like she intended this to be a bitchy comment, but the woman behind the counter said "yeah sure, what did you wanna use it for?". i replied saying "oh, only a bottle of water", so I turned around but instead of a fridge like most newsagents she had my clothes rack, yet after delving my hand in i still got a bottle of water. so the woman behind the counter picked up what seemed to be the top half of a plastic champagne flute and told me to have some tap water instead and i said "no, just on principle because i've been raised that way". i remember thinking that's not true i just don't know what's in their water, but i was also worried i'd hurt her feelings. also, the room seemed dark and the ceiling low.

sorry if i seem like i'm going on a bit i just wanted to write down every detail while i could remember. when i tried to remember other dreams form last night vague, unclear thoughts rushed through my head but i had this bizarre feeling like the thoughts were in my head but i couldn't quite reach them. is there anything in particular i should be noting especially and taking note of, and by the way this part of the dream did seem like it only lasted a few seconds but although my dream recall needs to be improved in terms of the length of the dream i remember and the amount of dreams, but have i got enough detail?

p.s) sorry if this introduction post is really boring :D

by the way i'm a newbie here, and to the whole ld thing in general, i just thought my dream journal might be a good place to start :)

I understand I too feel this way a lot of my dreams that I partialy recall seems to be far in my subconcious I think its useless to try to reach them too fast but anyway its good
that youve been able to get that much detail :-P

thanksi had a weird one today too, in short, covered my teacher in coke, witnessed a car crash and adopted the victims as my children until they both turned into identical versions of my dog and i had to stop them fighting. it just amazes me though, because if i hadn't written down my dreams i wouldn't have remembered half of what i have. by the way, how long should i keep a dream journal before starting to train myself to lucid dream?