Thread: Drawing Your Dreams?

That's a great idea, but apart from the vivid dreams, you'd also need good drawing skills, 'cause dreams aren't really that easy to draw. I do recall having seen a picture this guy from dA drew that was about a dream he had. Pretty cool pic I must say!

You can do your dream journal however you want, as long as it helps you remember. So if pictures work for you, then do it! Myself, I like writing out quick snippits of my dreams because I don't have much time in the morning.

I think somewhere on the forum here there's a thread like what you're looking for. If not, try Googling it.

We have a "Draw Your Dreams" thread here at DV:
http://www.dreamviews.com/forum/inde...howtopic=28446

And yeah, whenever I get done with pics of my dreams, I put links to the pics in my journal, also.

That's an original idea, but a bit hard to put into acts, isn't it? Apart from the fact that I'm crap at drawing, my dreams are usually quite long and with a lot of moving around (like 4-5 places), and sometimes additional dimensions. Does that mean yours are quite static? If I had to draw mines it would be a real comic.
However, what I draw quite a lot are plans of the location (for instance if it's a big building)

I drew a picture in my DJ once, but as soon as I finished I remembered I sucked at drawing and it looked nothing like what I intended. I'm sticking with English as my main medium for dream logging from now on...

you dont really have to be a good artist i feel, you could just do a few speed sketches when you wake up (of different events/scenes if you want), just has to be something interactive to make YOU remember your dreams, of course qriting is easier but not as interactive and takes less thinking than writing, its like when revising and stuff, the more you have to think about something the more you remember it, like if you just read words for revision rather than doing questions or putting the words into context (into a sentence) you dont remember it as well or at all.

does anybody else agree it would be better to draw ( even if you are a totally pants drawer, especially speed sketching...) instead of write?

if anyone knows anything like this DA ( deviant art) let me know the persons username....

What would be good is if a dream was closely based on a curent event in life is being able to make a video re-inacting the dream, if the dream was vivid enough you should be able to make a fairly good match

Drawing your dreams is an interesting idea and I can see doing that if your dreams aren't terribly long or numerous every night. I can see them laid out in a cartoon cell fashion. However, it would be hard to express some things just visually, like sharing consciousness with a DC or having bizarre thoughts or feelings. Maybe adding captions or notes to the art would work be worth trying.

My awareness of shapes and patterns IRL and in dream life has gotten a lot more intense since working on LDs. I'll occasionally replicate the shapes from my dreams when they really stand out or resemble something I've seen IRL.

Ok, you'vefinally convinced me! I was just bored in bed yesterday so I picked up a copybook and a pencil and started sketching a few last dreams. I actually found this format useful, dividing the page in four parts which enable me to represent the diversity of the plot without having to resort to a comic.
I'm still crap at drawing however
Since I was too lazy to write in my DJ, I might just post picture now lol.

Yeah I do think I remember my Dreams better WHILE I'm drawing them to add to written text. As I draw I get more and more concrete memories of my Dreams. Maybe it's because Drawing requires more Creativity to be used: just like in a Dream.

I tried drawing a few months ago just for the fun. I found it depressing because no matter how hard I tried to draw my dream it just didn't look the same. My drawing skills lack. But I do believe it can help.

I would draw maps of locations (mostly indoor buildings) of my dreams when I was young, and that works very well.

But to be honest, voice recording is the best way of remembering dreams for me - listening to the way I speak in the recording triggers much deeper memories and details of what I was thinking about at the time than the words alone can.

One very interesting component of dreams that I have found is that they stay in the long term memory much better, despite being forgotten from the short term very quickly.

I've come to this conclusion because I've looked back at my dream journal (tell if this works for you) and I can read a dream, and then recall perfectly how the actual experience felt during the dream. I can't do this in real life... real life experiences are much more fuzzy for me. The text itself of a dream journal can bring me back. For this reason I think that a good illustration is that much more powerful and would really help bring you back to the dream. The only problem with drawing dreams is you have no reference to work off of, only your memory and mind.

I think it's a good idea but doesn't that mean you'd have to draw out all of the different dream scenes? I don't thin kit's good for long dreams or on days when you have many dreams.

Some people might spend too much time focusing on one scene and forget the rest, so maybe you should write it and draw it. Though... I personally don't recommend drawing if you're a perfectionist, it takes real skill to capture the essence of that scene on paper [the emotions you felt, the senses, etc., my opinion but anyways], even for those who can pull it off might not want to put in that much time to do all of that...

You can do it but it really depends on the person's motivation and determination, I'll try it for myself though, because it really does sound like a good idea [not sure if I'll be able to succeed though]

Yes, drawing is definitely the worst technique if you want to get your thoughts down quickly. Speed is another factor where voice recording excels by far.

I sometimes wish I was able to draw well, as I could draw some of my dreams then. But I am not, and I can't be bothered trying to learn to draw better as I do not have much patience. It would certainly be awesome having detailed drawed pictures of one's dreams.

It definitely seems like a good idea, only a little hard and more time would be spent doing it. I haven't drawm any of the scenes in my dreams, because words work very well for me. I can use the description I write and my memory to recall the dream well. However, in my DJ, I have drawn maps to make it easier for someone (including myself) to understand when reading it.

Originally Posted by ataraxis

One very interesting component of dreams that I have found is that they stay in the long term memory much better, despite being forgotten from the short term very quickly.

I've come to this conclusion because I've looked back at my dream journal (tell if this works for you) and I can read a dream, and then recall perfectly how the actual experience felt during the dream. I can't do this in real life... real life experiences are much more fuzzy for me. The text itself of a dream journal can bring me back. For this reason I think that a good illustration is that much more powerful and would really help bring you back to the dream. The only problem with drawing dreams is you have no reference to work off of, only your memory and mind.[/b]

I know what you mean. I've noticed it too. Once I remember a dream enough to not forget it in the next five minutes, I can clearly recall it months later. Maybe years too, but I haven't been journaling long enough to know.
It could be that dreams are hazy to begin with, so when you remember them hazily it seems like not much has changed...

Originally Posted by Drk

I know what you mean. I've noticed it too. Once I remember a dream enough to not forget it in the next five minutes, I can clearly recall it months later. Maybe years too, but I haven't been journaling long enough to know.
It could be that dreams are hazy to begin with, so when you remember them hazily it seems like not much has changed...[/b]

I can still recall dreams I had when I was really little right now with a decent amount of clarity. But what seems to happen to me is that I get certain "stick points" in dreams, like a snapshot, that the dream clings to, and on the long term THAT is what I really remember. The rest of the dream seems to melt around it. But with the dream journal I can recall the melted gaps.

My recent dream:



I climbed up there, jumped off and landed on my head.