Dream journal symbols and shorthand

After a few months of keeping a dream journal, I developed quite a number of symbols to annotate the events of my dreams. Anyone else come up with something similar? I figured I'd share mine.

• ■ (black square): Wake up
• □ (white square): False awakening
• ~ (tilde): Forgotten events
• [] (square brackets): Outside commentary (e.g. [This isn't actually his name.])
• * (asterisk): "Before that..." (this is particularly useful for recording dreams in reverse order as you remember them.)
• "Smash product sign": Attaining lucidity. This made it easy to scan through the journal to see which dreams were lucid. I also mounted a large sign containing this symbol above my bed, so it'd be the last thing I saw before going to sleep.

I only have a few acronyms that I use. I used to type "I don't remember" a lot, so I had IDR, but don't use that one anymore.

I also had SUD for "set up differently" like when you are at your school, but it doesn't physically look like your school.

The only one I really use now is DE. It stands for dream-established. It's when you know something automatically in the dream, like it's just a universal fact. Like if, in a dream, you see some guy hand a paper to another person. The events of the dream beforehand had nothing to do with this part, yet you automatically know that this paper is your science project, and there is a conspiracy against you by a secret society that doesn't want you to graduate. That would be a DE conspiracy, or it would be DE that it was your paper.

This was what I just wondering. Thanks for the tips I'll be sure to use them. :)

FA = false awakening, plus DILD and MILD and whatnot. I use general shorthand/chatspeak when writing out my DJ entries (like b/t for between, leaving out words like "the," etc). Oh, and I highlight when I become lucid in a dream, and write/highlight the type of lucid at the beginning of the entry so that I can find them easily. Otherwise, I haven't really established a system like yours.

Yeah I also highlight the tiltes of my dreams so I can find them faster. :)

I mostly use terms that we use on DV....but when I have a normal nonlucid, I make a dot before noting the entry. If it's a lucid or whatever, I'll note LD, DEILD, WILD, OBE above the dot. And if it's a nightmare, I'll note "NM." :P