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i'm wondering why no one comments on my dreams and then i see that this one has a rating of one star. harsh? it's my dream, i wrote it clearly and it's kind of funny. but people basically hate it??? i didn't make it up, it wasn't even lucid so i didn't control it at all. so people don't like the dream that i had. there's really nothing i could do to have made them like it, it just happened. so i'm thinking this sucks and then i realize: what the heck am i trying to get out of this anyway? keeping a dream journal on here is a waste of time. i'm still going to comment on other people's and continue to make posts about questions i have in the forum as well as comment on other people's threads but this dream journal stuff seems pointless. unless someone can tell me something i don't know about it? but i don't think so. i think that if you want to feel that other people enjoy what you dream then good luck trying to have dreams that make comprehensible and exciting stories. i'd be willing to bet that some of the more fantastical dreams on here are at least partly made up for entertainment and not dreamed at all. how else do you explain that the majority of people's dreams on here are fragmented stories that don't flow like a short story and then a small percentage are epic, well written novellas? i really don't think we should be rating them at all, it is a dream "journal" it's not like you're making up a story to impress people. you're writing down what happened in your brain last night. it would make sense to rate them if they were all short stories or something because then there would be a depth of quality of writing and story creation. and please don't say i'm being touchy. i don't have my feelings hurt. i really just noticed that i'm wasting my time on here. even if i became number one dream journal guy, is that going to help me with anything??? no it's not. maybe if my social life outside of here was really bleak, but it's not so... the rating system just kind of made me open my eyes to what i'm really doing here: i've been posting my dreams and hoping people would like them!
after feeling slightly sad that people didn't like today's entry made me realize how ridiculous it is to care about this at all. my dream journal is a blank book next to my bed that i sometimes transfer to this site. the one next to my bed is a tool to develop my lucid dreaming skills and i now realize this one was just hoping someone would think they were cool.

however almost all the forum posts i've made about dreaming topics or induction techniques have been very helpful in building knowledge about the subject so i love this site and will continue to make and post on threads in the forum!