If I wake up in the middle of night, I have serious problems to get up and write down my dreams to dream journal. I am not able to do it because I am too sleepy and maybe lazy to do that. What is more it could wake me up more and I could have problems to get asleep again. No matter if I use a paper journal, a journal on my computer, phone app, the results are always the same. I am not able to get up and do anything (even to turn on recording on my phone). I finally found a solution that works for me very well. When I wake up in the middle of night and I need to record my dreams, I just say them to the air. It is enough for me to remember them very well after I wake up in the morning. Then I write them down. Try it, it may work for you too. (In case it fails, I record all sounds the whole night so I can play them anythime)
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If i run through the dream in my head over and over again as I drop back to sleep then there's a good chance I'l remember it in order to record it later, sometimes that works better than attempting to write it all down at the time then not being able to read my appalling "night handwriting" the next morning!
I tried that too but it seems to work only if no deep sleep is ahead.
I also tried PEG and this seems to work better.
After some time of trying this, I have to admit it doesn't work as well as I thought. It is better than nothing, but getting up and writing to the dream journal is much better. The effectiveness of the recording is just about 50 %. Sometimes I remember the dreams well and sometimes not very well. I record it using automatic recording too so I can write down all dreams but if I don't remember the recorded dreams at all, it doesn't help if I write them down. So, it is a good helper for cases when I wouldn't be able to wake up and write the dreams but it is not so good as I thought before.
Just saying them out loud does not help for me, unfortunately. But I also like to use a voice recorder. Mine is noise-activated, so I do not have to move to turn it on, I just can start talking. (Or at least it SHOULD be, it seems like that function has become a bit buggy.)
That's very interesting! Perhaps the act of saying them out loud helps for some. Like you touch on at the end of your post, though, I prefer a voice recorder for this -- I have one that has a very large slide button as a "record" button that also powers it up, so if I keep it right beside me, I never even have to open my eyes / remove my sleep mask in order to start recording (which helps massively).