I think it is important to chart the small incidents as well as the obvious ones in your dreams.

After attemting to interperet some of my dreams I have noticed that many connnections can be made with the subtleties of my dreams when compared to the major factors of my dreams.
IN order to cut down on the time it takes to write down a dream opon awakening and to still record all the fine details I made up my own language, like short hand.

I thought maybe this could help some others out if you do not already have some form of it.
I'll give you a short example.

The things in my dreams that are prevelant I give symbols or letters.
My house is in almost all my dreams. House simply = H. It could not be interpereted any other way because I would use H for nothing else.
A dream character. Aquanina = A fish. (one of those you draw in one motion.)
Flying is a usual accurance = F

I think you get the point.
*This allows me to spend more time writing down specifics that I would likely forget otherwise.