- First I think you should ask yourself: why are you writing every single thing down? Especially when it’s affecting your normal life so much, I think you should take it a bit lighter. Personally I spend max. 5 minutes every morning on my dream journal, but can recall everything just fine as well.
To do this, I turn on the PC (digital dream journal), and while the PC’s booting, I go over my dreams in my head, and hope to recall more by association etc. Then I type them out one by one (I type way faster than I write, so that saves time 
), just a short description, 3 or 4 lines or so, and also some short extra information like people I know that were there, emotions I was having, dream signs I encountered, etc.
Also having a digital dream journal enables you to search for specific dreams more easily, or let you count the number of lucid dreams you had so far, or per month, etc.
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On [How to Choose Your Technique) you can read a topic on which technique may work best for you.
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Well, to me that’s just odd, but it’s great too, so why worry?
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No real information of which I know, but I often have something like this as well. Especially in lucid dreams I can clearly remember what other dreams I had that very night, and occasionally I also talk about earlier dreams I had in normal dreams (so when not lucid).
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Thing about LD’s is that they mostly take place in REM sleep, and it’s the end of the night (morning hours) when you have the most REM sleep, so also the most LD’s. As for me, I have only had lucid dreams after 5:00am, but for about everything concerning lucid dreaming goes that your mileage may vary, a lot.