I absolutely agree with this! I have 2 boxes of spiral notebook journals going back to the beginning of therapy in October of 2011 - one box is specifically dream journals, the other is everything-else journals. I buy spiral notebooks every fall during the back to school sales when you can get 10 for $1, I usually buy 20 at a time. It is absolutely fascinating to me to go back and read that very first journal - I sounded SO young!! And oh so stubborn. (When I think I'm stubborn now, all I have to do is go back and read that first journal to see how far I've come!) Another plus to hand-written journals is you can draw pictures in them, or color in them, or put stickers in them when the mood strikes.