How many of you actually keep a dream journal?

**changed** · 08-02-2010 06:27 PM

I know that your supposed to keep a Dream journal but how many of you actually do that? I find i need to because when i do my number of LDs go way up.

**Puffin** · 08-02-2010 06:29 PM

Lucids happen more when I keep one, too, as well as the number of dreams I recall. If I stop for a while, I tend to coast for a few weeks and then my recall just... plops.

**pontozero** · 08-02-2010 07:20 PM

I answered No because I never had a definitive jounal. I tend to, from time to time, register dreams that are meamningful to me but didn't become a habit.

**Nunosi** · 08-02-2010 08:56 PM

I have a journal that includes entries for both my waking life and dreaming. It also includes random commentary I may have on different lucid methods and aids I have used. Kind of a mish-mash of things but I still consider it my dream journal.

**Clyde Machine** · 08-03-2010 01:01 AM

Regularly. I try to keep a consistent DJ.

**Orior** · 08-03-2010 01:18 AM

I answered "no". I DO keep a dream journal, I just never use it :p

**Catbus** · 08-03-2010 01:22 AM

Yeah, keeping a regular dream journal makes a gigantic difference in recall for me. I go from remembering maybe a few dreams a week to multiple dreams a night.

**Loaf** · 08-03-2010 04:05 AM

People who select no are either lazy or intentionally trying not to keep one. You don't have to write out your dreams vividly, just jotting down notes about them is the bare minimum. Thats all I do on paper. Sometimes I then publish them here, in detail.

**ooflendoodle** · 08-03-2010 04:08 AM

I only joined like one or two weeks ago I now remeber 1-4 dreams a night and have had 3 lucids first one was five days after joining. Helps a lot
(As opposed to not remembering any besides really intense nightmares)

**Puffin** · 08-03-2010 04:11 AM

Originally Posted by Loaf

People who select no are either lazy or intentionally trying not to keep one. You don't have to write out your dreams vividly, just jotting down notes about them is the bare minimum. Thats all I do on paper. Sometimes I then publish them here, in detail.

I usually have my itouch at my bedside, so I can quickly type the dreams out in detail. Then I publish most of them here afterwards.

**Brunor2** · 08-03-2010 04:17 AM

I do. Everyday I write on it.

**XeL** · 08-03-2010 04:34 AM

Of course. :3

I have two differnt DJs. One for notes, and one for the whole dream.

**highrik** · 08-03-2010 08:59 AM

I've been keeping a journal for about two weeks now and just about recalling a dream a night.. it always seems to be the last dream I dream before waking. The only thing I could remember this morning was that I dreamed it was raining.. initially I thought that maybe it really had been raining but when I concentrated on the detail I realized I was viewing the rain from my front street. My recall is still quite poor but it's been slowly improving over the week and a half I've been keeping my journal. Can't wait till I can remember two separate dreams a night

**Orior** · 08-03-2010 10:36 AM

Originally Posted by Loaf

People who select no are either lazy or intentionally trying not to keep one.

I'm one of the lazy guys. I have tried keeping a DJ, but whenever I wake up.. I just don't feel like writing.

**Orior** · 08-03-2010 10:36 AM

Originally Posted by Loaf

People who select no are either lazy or intentionally trying not to keep one.

I'm one of the lazy guys. I have tried keeping a DJ, but whenever I wake up.. I just don't feel like writing.

**changed** · 08-03-2010 01:41 PM

I try to keep a dream journal but it does go on and off because when i wake up and im really sleepy i dont feel like writing anything down but i do have a DJ currently because like i said above it does help.

**comanighttrain** · 08-03-2010 02:58 PM

Originally Posted by Puffin

I usually have my itouch at my bedside, so I can quickly type the dreams out in detail. Then I publish most of them here afterwards.

I'm doing that too with my htc, haven't voted on this because i just started though

**zhineTech** · 08-03-2010 03:31 PM

i would consider this a key basic practice, those with good enough recall and frame of mind that do not have to keep one are certainly blessed!

i use my droid phone for basic notes (my handwriting is terrible), then transfer them to computer and flesh them out, then back to the phone for keeping and review whenever i feel like it. i love scrolling through a list of dreams where i will have basically no memory of something, see the title, and then have this rush of memory as i recall them. i dont do this for every dream as many of them are fragments or pretty much impossible to put into words.

i also have a notes / waking journal which i use for various experiments and a spreadsheet which i use to keep track of many things such as sleep time, number of dreams, and techniques i have attempted.

i so this off and on. without the journal i have virtually no recall as i tend to forget things when i start moving about and getting ready for the day.

**Lakona** · 08-03-2010 03:51 PM

I write mine out with pen and paper, mostly point form, and it tends to jump around in time a lot - like one sentence about the beginning, then I'll remember something that happened toward the end, then something that happened earlier than that, etc.

I also make a point of trying to remember as much sensory-based information as possible, describing things in as much detail as possible, which I think is important in terms of improving vividness.

Later in the day when I have the free time I edit all the mess into coherency and post it on my DJ here.

People who are literally too tired to write out their dreams upon waking should probably check their sleep habits and other lifestyle factors (fitness, nutrition, etc).

**Hukif** · 08-03-2010 04:46 PM

Have one! Though I question what for, it serves no real purpose other than store dreams <.<

**zhineTech** · 08-03-2010 04:53 PM

Originally Posted by Walms

Have one! Though I question what for, it serves no real purpose other than store dreams <.<

heh, thats kind of like saying "i have a refrigerator, the only purpose it serves is to hold food."

but it keeps the food fresh, or stores it frozen until you are ready to retrieve it another day, or keeps your drinks cold and tasty....

the very act of keeping it assigns importance to it in your conscious and subconscious mind. keeping one improves recall and lucidity drastically almost across the board for people.

**Hukif** · 08-03-2010 04:56 PM

Problem is, I have natural recall and already found a reliable way for me to get lucid, so it is just a storage <.<

**SilverBells** · 08-03-2010 05:00 PM

Originally Posted by zhineTech

the very act of keeping it assigns importance to it in your conscious and subconscious mind. keeping one improves recall and lucidity drastically almost across the board for people.

Exactly! I think just the fact Im keeping a dream journal improves my recall

**Repo!** · 08-03-2010 05:42 PM

I keep one too.But I have a question: this who do keep a regular dream journal...do you wake up mutiple times throughout the night and record your dreams? Or do you just wake up in the morniing and record them?

**Puffin** · 08-03-2010 07:09 PM

Originally Posted by Repo!

I keep one too.But I have a question: this who do keep a regular dream journal...do you wake up mutiple times throughout the night and record your dreams? Or do you just wake up in the morniing and record them?

I wake up naturally at least once during the night; at this time I either quickly type up my dreams on my itouch, or write notes on paper. If I'm doing a WBTB I can go into more detail. In the morning I type them up on Dreamviews.