Basically I just want to discuss the importance of keeping a dream journal.

I know everyone says it is the #1 most important thing, which is true from my experience as well. If I don't write my dreams down I hardly remember them at all. I have friends who have decent dream recall without writing them down but I usually forget 90% of them.

When I am spending a lot of time lucid dreaming my dream journals end up getting rediculously long. This past summer I kept a dream journal in a word document for about two and a half weeks and it was 26 pages long.

If I really spend a lot of time lucid dreaming and get to the skill level I want to be at I am going to end up with hundereds of pages typed on my computer and written in notebooks. Is there an easier way to do this?

Do all the experts interviewed on this website still keep a dream journal even today? or is there a point where you can become so good at each technique that you do not need to write down your dreams every time you wake up?