Dreams...Do you keep a journal?

Subject: Dreams...Do you keep a journal? Sat Jan 26, 2008 12:55 am

For the past several months...when I can sleep...when I dream...I keep a pad and pencil beside my bed and write down the things that I can remember about my dreams...I find that if I do not do it immediately upon waking up...I forget details...

So, I was wondering if anyone else does this?

Sometimes, I can just remember a few things..sometimes nothing but a feeling, a smell...but I write it down...it is interesting to go back over what I have dreamed about...

There are other times when I can not remember anything...but I always try.. Very Happy

How about you?

Subject: Re: Dreams...Do you keep a journal? Sat Jan 26, 2008 1:36 am

As always, another superb post!!

I keep a Book of Mirrors as a kinda-sorta dream journal (although I have not recorded my dreams for a long time). It's good to look back on some of them and laugh or think wtf hehe. Then some I try to dissect for meaning. It's at least interesting to see what you were dreaming at a particular point in your life...and almost always, in hindsight, they make a lot of sense and are full or relative symbolism.

Subject: Re: Dreams...Do you keep a journal? Sat Jan 26, 2008 2:18 am

I rarely remember anything of my dreams, not even vague flashes. The only time I remember anything is if I am sleeping badly, which thankfully isn't very often. I don't keep a dream journal, although I've heard from lots of sources that it's a good thing to be doing. I tried for a little while a few years back, but I found that it disrupted my sleep more because if I remember flashes it's because I've woken up during the night, and so writing it down means that I am then fully awake and can't get back to sleep. So I gave up. lol

Subject: Re: Dreams...Do you keep a journal? Sat Jan 26, 2008 3:07 pm

Yes I do - and it needs updating, thanks for the reminder Chi..

I bought a special book for the purpose when I realised that I have rather strange dreams and I could possibly learn from them.

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Nope. Haven't kept one in years. I've been interpreting my own dreams for just on 2 decades now, and I do it when I get up. My dreams have become so weird lately, that I don't even bother anymore.

Well, they're weird when they aren't dreams of me waiting in line to use the toilet in a publci place - which is just my mind letting me know my bladder's full. I usually wake up in the middle of this one and for some reason, its always time to get up anyway.

Subject: Re: Dreams...Do you keep a journal? Sat Jan 26, 2008 4:37 pm

No I don't keep a dream journal but it certainly would be a good idea to start one Very Happy

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Aleia