>What you need to do instead, if you remember anything at all (even just part of a dream, some fleeting image) is get out a piece of paper and write it down imm

>What you need to do instead, if you remember anything at all (even just part of a dream, some fleeting image) is get out a piece of paper and write it down immediately, in as much detail as possible. I've had very good luck with a slight variation of this, too -- especially at the start. Rather than immediately waking up and writing down your dream(s), I've found it very helpful to immediately close my eyes and continue to visualize the dreams as I go back over what happened in each. This lets you build up more concise (see: faster-to-write-down) outlines without as much "real world" visual input trying to break those fragile dream memories. This approach might be overkill for writing down a single dream, but IMO helps a lot when you're trying to remember and write down multiple/many dreams.