"yes the Count undressed me but" why are you so casually saying this, hold up...
It's his coping mechanism.
We've already seen Jonathan struggle with what is and is not real, and he is in real danger of losing his mind. Right now, establishing the facts is more important than the implications of those facts. He's a lawyer, he's laying out the IRAC.
On May 5th he wondered if his experiences were dream or reality, and puts down his evidences for both. When he thinks they're going around in circles he finds a way to double check his own impressions.
And then he says he is full of dreadful imaginings, that he dare not confess even to his own soul.
On May 7th he fact checks his experiences on the ride against Dracula's own accounts
On May 8th he can't see Dracula in the mirror, and then double checks to make sure - find some way to prove that it's not a trick of the light or some dark imagining. When he finds himself a prisoner he goes mad and eventually has to calm and quiet himself before he can proceed - and he once more calms himself by laying out facts. When his whole world is unbelievable his only refuge is fact. He spells out his problem - EITHER he's imagining it all OR he's going to die in here, and he can't afford to guess wrong about which it is. He needs all his wits - guarding his own sanity is his number one priority.
On May 12th he once more begins with facts - the more frightening and unreal his situation becomes the more desperately he clings to what he can prove. If he starts into conjecture he is lost, because he'll never stop, and he needs to know what's real. Dracula is already gaslighting him but Jonathan is writing down what's real as a defense against that. Even when he mistrusts his own perceptions, blackletter is immutable.
He's not saying it casually, he's saying it formally. He has to be systematic about this, he has no choice. It is vital to his sanity and survival to know if those girlies were real or a dream (or a local memory, the way Dracula suggested on the 12th). So he looks for evidence. Does what he can see now (reality) agree with his memory (which is fallible)?
Fact: his watch is unwound (he usually winds it)
Fact: his clothes are folded (not how he would have)
Fact, fact, fact - evidence, but not proof. And he needs proof. He needs to know whether his perceptions of reality are trustworthy.
Issue: I have a certain set of memories around how I got into bed last night, but they are unbelievable and full of vampires
Rule: I have certain bedtime routines that I follow assiduously
Analysis: the state of my things agrees with my memories but disagrees with my typical Rule
Conclusion: the Count probably undressed me which suggests that all that stuff about vampires trying to eat me is probably true
And that's what goes in the journal. That's what needs to be written down for whoever finds his body. That's what he needs to see in plain logic, cold blackletter, to hang his confidence on going forward.
What doesn't need to be written down, because what good would it do, is
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