Thanks for the valuable input Sivason. A voice recorder sounds an excellent idea for helping to journal. I guess there should be no excuse (for me) now, at least?! However I think I definitely would need a lot of practice to get to the point where I did not wake myself up too much (mentally).

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I will listen to what was recorded and try to have it trigger memories of the dream.
Interestingly enough, I often found (usually thinking about absolutely nothing, or more commonly an accidental, but vague association IWL relating to the earlier dream memory) that several hours later I would experience a 'flashback' of the dream event from previously. Often this would be an important (but nevertheless forgotton) part of the dream scenario, or even a whole dream event. So yes, a voice recorder (or app?) again would come in handy.