Thread: Has you Dream Journal really helped

Yes it does. I, unfortunately, have the same problem. I can usually write them down first period because I have PE and can't do anything because of an injury, or I can write down key words that will remind me of the dream, so I can write them down later on in the day.

Yes, it's helped me a lot and for me it's well worth the effort.

Originally Posted by Stephent91

Yes it does. I, unfortunately, have the same problem. I can usually write them down first period because I have PE and can't do anything because of an injury, or I can write down key words that will remind me of the dream, so I can write them down later on in the day.

Hah if i did that and someone was looking over my shoulder..I would look weird "then I flew to mars and saw jessica simpson there, we started to talk a little..."

Originally Posted by Überschall

Yes, it's helped me a lot and for me it's well worth the effort.

Can you give an example?

Keeping a dream journal is the single greatest thing you can do for your dream recall - period. Before I discovered lucid dreaming and started a dream journal, I was one of those people who thought that they just didn't have dreams. 2.5 years and much dream journalling later, I now remember 2-4 dreams per night.

Use your dream journal. It is worth the effort.

Yeah, it's definately helped me. I'm just starting to have longer lucids now, so it's often hard enough remembering all that happened as soon as I wake up, much less later in the day or even weeks from then. Mine are fairly weird, so some can be really hard to remember, while some are just the opposite.

My last lucid, Joan of Arc put on a shadow puppet show about a scene in her life, so that was pretty awesome. I love being able to read over my dreams and see how I've progressed and learned over time about what is going on.

I keep my journal both online and as a notebook offline, so that I have to write it twice. I think that helps bang in the dream a little harder.

You can find my journal at http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...ad.php?t=54646 if anyone wants to check it out.

My dreamjournals have been invaluable assets to lucidity. Not to mention I can reflect and laugh on dreams I had years and years ago that I would have completely forgotten otherwise.

Alright I will start one!

A word to the wise. Once you start a dream journal don't stop or the momentum won't come back. When i first started my dream journal i was remember my dreams at an incredibl rate, i was even starting to remember dreams from weeks prior.

However i stoped using my dreamjournal and after awhile when i started using it again i could never get the type of recall that i had initially. The momentum was gone.

Originally Posted by hootman

Can you give an example?

Well, for one it's given me a stronger relation to my dreams. It's giving me a curious attitude about my dreams which helps me experience them better and recall a lot more of them. And especially that relation to your dreams is important for lucid dreaming.

It has helped tremendously. In the beginning, I could remember 2-5 dreams per night. For some reason that has fallen down to about 1-3. Still, I remember dreams. Before I kept a dream journal, I was remembering maybe 7 dreams a month. I got lucid dreams about once every 6 months. Keeping a dream journal has gotten my lucid dream frequency to about two a week, and I think I'm close to hitting three. Most of all though, I find dream journaling to be worth the effort if only for the fun of it. I wouldn't remember most dreams a year, let alone a month if I didn't write them down. I'm also pretty rushed to get to class, but all I did was wake myself up 10 minutes earlier than I needed to. Honestly, the biggest problem I have is being too tired to record dreams that weren't too vivid, and the fact that I sleep on my arms and cut off blood circulation doesn't make it any easier...

the greatest thing about a dream journal is if you keep it long it is actually entertaining to read. Ive had one dream journal for 3 years and every so often i read the whole thing and even if i only have a few words about a dream that happened years ago i still remember it vividly. You can actually re-experience the dream. Now a days i try to read through it every night because i have so many dreams written down and so many dream signs that it will usually produce a lucid just from reading it. I also put drawings in it of dreams and sometimes i write "this is a dream" for an entire page before i go to sleep. Dream journals are an invaluable tool for dreamers.

Yea, I remember my dreams much better now. Although I haven't been keeping it as well as I should be.

By keeping a dream journal I went from remember an average of basically 0 dreams every night to now a minimum of 2 (2 months later). I also log
-when I go to sleep and wake up, hours total slept as well as when I woke up for WBTB
-signs that would have alerted me to the fact that I am in a dream
-events that have happened recently that would have caused me to have that dream
-the time of day and day of the week I am recording

By recording all of this on top of just the dreams I hope to
-observe the difference in dream recall depending on how much sleep I get
-observe differences in recall and lucidity based on WBTB
-be able to be more watchful for things that will tell me I'm dreaming
-be watchful for significant events of the past days occurring in my dreams
-observe the effect of waiting to record my dreams on recall (sometimes I log right when I wake up, sometimes late in the afternoon or evening)

Hope these ideas are helpful for other people's dream journals

Valwen

Yes it helps, improves recall greatly. But more importantly, dream details and vividness.

ok, I am a busy lad myself
and do not write my dreams in the morning.
What I do is, record my dreams into a hand held voice recorder
and then i can transpose itlater on. works very well, VERY WELL
it brings dream images right back

Absolutely!!! When starting out, it helped greatly in identifying dreamsigns. For me, this is still the best way for me to become lucid.