Personaly, I used to keep a dream journal when I started...
But I stopped because of lazyness; because I don't like to hold on "useless" memories/stuff (I like to "travel light"); because I easily remember all my lucid dreams.
The trick is that, each time I have a lucid dream, I will always endup waking up instantly after it; without falling back to a non lucid dream. The lucid dream's memory will not vanish for some reason. The annoying part is that, on busy nights, I would have up to 4 lucid dreams a night and so wake up up to 4 times during those nights... [xx(]
The dream journal is also used to discover dream paterns and use those to become lucid...
Well I myself keep dream journals for several years even though it takes alot of time and patience to do so.
The dream world and everything in it is often as real to me as the actual world with me being able to have almost total recall.
Last night I dreamt I went to a school to visit a class room.
There was a professer there giving a lesson to his class and some of the students were standing near him to listen.
A girl about 21 -23 years old was standing next to me and I decided to speak to her and let the truth about her existance.
She told me that her name was Lee or Leia and was very pretty.
She had long straight dark brown hair was very slim and tall at least about 5" 9' in height.
Her complexion was very fair with slim features, freckless, fleshy high cheekbones, a small slightly squarish rounded chin with a small center dimple, and slim curved lips with pink lip gloss on.
She had the warmest medium brown colored and innocent looking of eyes and a slim rounded end nose.
She wore a fuzzy off white sweater, slim fit lite blue faded jean, and dark brown pointy boots.
I came closer to her and could smell her soft, feminine shower fresh scent.
"Listen up Leia, I have something to tell you and its very important."
"What is it?" she replied in a high pitched exicted girlish voice.
"You're a dream person, that means that you exist in a different way from myself."
"You're not flesh and blood and don't live in the actual world that I do."
"Really?", she responded confused but not upset.
Then gently taking her by the arm which was warm to the touch under the fuzziness of the sweater I attempted to explain it to her.
"See Lee you exist here in my mind( I pointed to my head)
and are made up of..", then I stopped because I wasn't exactly sure just what she was actually made of.
She seemed intrigued by all of this and seemed to truly understand not being bothered in any way by it.
"But it really doesn't matter how you exist or where because you are still real to me and thats all that matters."
Leia was delighted by this and grobbed me firmly by my upper arm smiling and said:
" Ohh, thats so sweet!"
Then we parted and went our own seperate ways.
I realise this may seem insignificant to most of the posters on this forum but I am currently quite ecstatic about my experience last night.
Im not just here to boast about my accomplishment though, I have a question [:D].
I remember realising that I was dreaming and the pure joy that swept through me. I was standing on a window ledge in a very somber setting (an industrial site of some kind) at night time. This didnt put a dent in the huge smile on my face and I was quick to take off and fly high in the sky. I remembered Robert Bruce's advice to narrate the event so as to aid in the memory but all I recall saying over and over again is, "Im FLYING !!".
The rest of the dream is unfortunately quite blurry, because after I woke up with the dream fresh in my mind I felt it crumble and vanish quicker than I could get a grasp on it. This really frustrated me and I will work at keeping a dream journal from now on as to aid in the memory of my dreams.
But what i wanted to ask of the more experienced is,
have you used a journal to help in remembering and if so can you train it to the point where dream memories are almost as strong as real ones ?
thank you in advance,