Blue Flush

I always have fantastic ideas right before I go to sleep.  The problem with this is that I can't find a good way to record them.  I'll think of an amazing idea for a story to write, and I'll try to write down key phrases in my phone, but this never works.  I think that the few words I record will be enough to jog my memory on this brilliant plan, but the next morning, I check my phone for the idea, and I'm left with a cryptic phrase like, "Little bacon train."  What the hell did I mean by that?