Yay or nay? Anyone willing to share their experiences with these?
I used to have a good program that you could program to track recurring words and themes so you could better keep track of things if you wanted to go lucid. It was totally free too. But my computer crashed and I haven't been able to find it since.
I've tried using notebooks but I have trouble doing reality checks. I love having lucid dreams but I don't think I'm mentally organized enough to keep a dream journal on top of my other obligations.
They will help dream recall like nothing else.
I recommend audio recorsing in the morning (speak slowly and clearly) then transcribe in the evening. You won't feel like writing when sleepy.
I'm having like 2-4 separate dreams a night. should I try to remember each one or do I write the last one?
If I forget details do I pad them out or leave blank and spotty? Do I at least acknowledge that I had a dream :mlk-yes:?
Do the best you can, even if you just write "something with an owl, don't remember much"
How long have you kept dream journals?
And if you don't mind me asking: Do you feel like your dream journals left some impact in your waking life?
I probably have 3 years of them in boxes.
Not sure how to answer the second question. Maybe yes? I will say they're worthwhile and good not bad.
I have weird dreams as it is and don't wanna remember them
I could barely remember my dreams at first, but with time you get better at recall. My trick is to journal longhand as soon as I wake up, using minimal light. I don't use my phone or laptop - the screen brightness could awaken me further and pull me further away from the memory of the dream. My recall has improved significantly over the past few months, and I'm finally starting to remember dreams that get interrupted by my work alarm.
Write things down by hand, got it. I was gonna try to start on laptop, but I should make an effort to get away from screens anyways.
Also, as far as what to actually do with your dream journal entries, I've been following the Jungian idea that they're windows into the unconscious. Whether or not you buy into that, one piece of advice I keep seeing over and over again regarding this is a dream element's personal meaning is more correct than some dictionary's definition. If you dream of something weird and you look up some aspect in an online dream dictionary or something, that's not going to be necessarily an accurate interpretation. Anything that your unconscious sends upstairs in the form of a dream is going to be personal and not standardized.
Also, as far as what to actually do with your dream journal entries, I’ve been following the Jungian idea that they’re windows into the unconscious.
New year proposal was getting back into music-writing/making, I've been in a rut... and I was thinking that a key component was I lacked dream imagery.
Dreams are a fantastic source for creative inspiration, whether it's image or feeling or vibes! Journals are a great way to improve recall and have a greater well of image to draw from.
Sometimes I make a note of a dream right as soon as I wake up. Please enjoy
Has a dream where when school started these judge looking creatures would enter and we would go through an houl of slow motion before school began
At the end of the dream I asked people if it would help if I started screaming the moment they showed up but that was not helpful
When i have a particularly cool dream I'll text myself a description of it when i wake up. I've done this for years and i think the clarity of my dream recall has for sure increased as a result. I have way more lucid dreams than i used to too. I'm sure keeping a proper dream journal would be much better than my lazy slop version but i think every little bit of thought energy you give to it has an influence, ya know.
I have a dream journal that I update sporadically - generally when I have a particularly bizarre or interesting dream. I like reading back over it and seeing the stuff my unconscious mind has come up with over the years.
