Problem with writing down too weird or perverted dreams :D

The topic says it.

I'm afraid my parents or my brother will find my dream journal so I can't really write down the weird/perverted dreams which make about 30%-50% of all my dreams. I need a solution here! :mrgreen:

I mean, it's totally normal to have these dreams but written down they seem 10 times worse! They'll think I'm a psycho or something... Well, maybe not but still.

Should I just write everything down and hope they'll never find the Journal?

For example, in my last dream my mom told me that her and my dad had never had sex... (!) :mrgreen: took me a while to think "Wait a minute..!"

man you dont WANT to know my last pervish dream...oh god was it bad...

take my advice.. DONT WRITE THESE DOWN, TRY TO FORGET THEM

I agree with Jay Dawg. Don't write those down.

I've had some extremely perverse and sexual dreams recently, really heavy stuff, but you just have to let it go. I haven't even typed them into my DJ here.

TB

You could try using abbreviations or making your own code. But then I don't
write down these dreams either.

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I just now realized this.

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You know, you could use an electronic medium like Word or Notepad and then encrypt them.

You know your parents better than anyone here. Do your parents know that you are interested in lucid dreaming? Would they respect your privacy if you told them "I'm keeping a journal of my dreams, and I'd appreciate it if you didn't read it"?

Also, consider that they probably have, or have had, dreams that are just as odd as yours at some time in their life. Perhaps they wouldn't think twice about the content of your dreams, as long as they know that they are, after all, just dreams.

And you could always use the Dream Journal feature here at DreamViews -- unless you think they're going to be getting online to check up on you. Or, you could type up your dreams in Notepad, and then use some sort of encryption program to protect them from prying eyes. (Damn you Seeker -- beat me to it!) :mrgreen:

It's a difficult thing, to be sure. I'm not worried about parents or siblings, and if you look at my Dream Journal on DV (which I have been sadly neglecting lately), you'll see some things that will likely raise your eyebrows. But even so, there is some dream content that I am hesitant to put up where everyone can see it, for fear that I will be judged unfairly.

I guess eventually these dreams will stop if I totally ignore them? ...or not

I mean... I can't walk up to my desk in the middle of the night, just to write down my perverted dream on my computer... Hell, I barely have the willpower to write the normal dreams on the journal beside my bed! I do have a laptop but it's a little tricky to put it near my bed... It overheats easily.

I guess I'll focus on the suitable-for-all-ages-dreams :mrgreen:

I'm surprised no one suggested the Private Journal Entry feature. I've used that one for one of my super perverted dreams in fear of someone checking DVs. No problem yet....

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Originally posted by fajam00m00
I'm surprised no one suggested the Private Journal Entry feature. I've used that one for one of my super perverted dreams in fear of someone checking DVs. No problem yet....

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i bet the admins read those all the time. j/k

phil, if you are worried about forgetting the dreams and hurting your recall or whatever, just write down the setting or a title so you can remember the dream. i doubt you would want to remember them anyway.

I think I'll write a self-encrypting dream journal application. Something like blowfish or triple-des so it's secure, and a panic-key to immediately encrypt and clear the screen if you're approached.

Give me a few days... ;)

I just write them down anyway in the journal beside my bed, then later in the day after I transfer my entries to my PC (to which access is restricted, plus I can easily hide and/or encrypt anything), I rip the page out of the journal and throw it away. I have all of my journal entries organized on my hard disk, I just don't post them all on DreamViews. If someone can get to those entries on my PC, then by God they deserve to read them! lol

If you feel you should be writing them down, just buy a small lock box just big enough for your journals plus a couple more for the future. If your worried about a key, get one with a combonation type lock and take out your journal everynight before bed and put it back in the morning. If your parents are the type's who will get mad about you keeping secerets from them, and are the type of person who builds funiture for themself, build something usefull for every day life but add a hidden compartment. I'd suggest using the "Chinese Puzzle Box" style to access it, so it will be harder to find by accident. :wink:

Just for note I live on my own and do write down any dreams or thoughts I feel I need to get out. As a safty measure I place disclamers or the like every now and then in the event it gets read after my death by accedent or old age, to help clear up any misleading entries.(I have a tendency to come across as suicidal and/or psycopathic at times) :roll:

Hey,

I've found that if they are really that disturbing, you wont have much problem recalling them withough writing them down. I've had a few dreams that I never wrote down because I did not like them, but because I didn't like them I remembered them.

Hope this helps,

Nick

Could post the Dreamviews with private option checked(as stated)log off dreamviews and make sure the login screen doesn't contain your password, this is a pain if you often visit Dreamviews though. Storing the file with a random filename would work also, put it somewhere it wouldn't be (windows folder and more folders below it work but that may be a bti more obvious)

If you thought about posting them online...stop yourself! JK, I wouldn't be surprised by perverse dreams, we've all had our fair share.

You are obviously uncomfortable putting into material form the things you consider unacceptable from your subconscious mind. I know I have. I even have some reservations about writing in a journal in fear that someone might find it, or even what I type online, that's even more vulnerable, because it's replicable.

Try to deal with what you can in the moment, but also practice getting used to the idea of being bluntly honest. It will take a while, but I think it would be worth it. By all means, don't surpress those dreams. Store'em away mentally, and find the best way possible to catalogue them whilst keeping safe.

So would you say that you shoudn't write down innapropriate dreams. I guess if my parents read them, I would be really pissed off because it's not theres and they should respect my privace. But I don't know how much it would really embarass me. :?

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i bet the admins read those all the time. j/k [/b]

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they can read private dj entries? now thats just wrong.

anyway my origonal dj was a thin book which i kept concealed in a DVD case with my movie collection which is near my bed anyway.now i just write them online.

you could keep a notepad by your bed and still write them down in the middle of the night, just when you get up put it into your computer and then destroy the paper

Hmm, i better cross my ones out then...

You could lock it with a code cadena. If you can't remember it, you can smash the box open. But if they do, you can seriously give them a beating. (In... a good sense)

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i bet the admins read those all the time. j/k

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they can read private dj entries? now thats just wrong.[/b]

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The only people who could potentially read the private DJ entries are those two people who manage this site, Seeker and Icedawg. Ice deals mainly with the code, so if it was anyone it would probably be him.

However, they don't read them. I know I wouldn't even want to read them, as some of my dreams are rated Mature. Those I don't even post here at DV, but that's just me. As for your own journal, just come up with a symbol or word to take replace the content. If you're really unsure or it makes you very uncomfortalbe, then don't write them down. Sometimes I'll write down "something happened" and leave it at that.

From personal experience, these dreams won't just go away, but you can come to a point where for the most part you can say no and stop something from happening. It really just depends.

Use a whiteboard,
Ive been using a smallish (just bigger then A4) whiteboard due to the fact that i didnt want to add pointless dreams to my journal (which isnt a normal journal, its an experiment to get more LD's). I can now write dreams down, choose which ones to add to my journal and can simply wipe off dreams im not interested in when i choose.
Another good thing about this is you still get the bonuses of better dream recall as you would from normal note taking and journalling, because your still forcing yourself to remember and to write dreams down.

Infact even if you write all your dreams in a journal i would suggest a whiteboard. Its easier to take notes, keywords and other information before putting it together neatly in a journal (how many of you waste paper scribbling notes before adding them to your journal? :-P ).

>RooJ

Let's consider this the other way around:
You fear someone who knows you could read them, right ?

What if the most secretive way to have them written down was to publish them (anonymously of course) ?

One says the more conspicuous, the less noticed.

Your parents would never think those writings belong to you if by misfortune they should come across them ...

Dunno, might be an inanity ...

Do what I do--write them down on your computer; number or date them rather than name them, put them inside a folder under one of the programs in Program Files, name the folder "dat" or "net" or something equally computerish, remove the file extensions, and leave them there. Nobody bothers to look at what they think is sure to be computer jibberish!

I usually write the things I dont want people to read in japanese. That seems pretty safe, I think, even after my death... The problem is, its tricky to write in japanese when you're not really awake. Therefore, I usually first write in swedish, and then translate the worst dreams into japanese, when I am fully awake.

So the answer to your question is simple, learn japanese! :wink: