Thread: When can i stop my dream journal?

Why would you want to stop???? I really don't understand. Keeping a DJ is one of the highlights of the whole experience. To reread and remember your dreams? Why stop that?

Originally Posted by Snowy Egypt

Why would you want to stop???? I really don't understand. Keeping a DJ is one of the highlights of the whole experience. To reread and remember your dreams? Why stop that?

Agree with you! I just reread some of my dreams, and a couple of them had strong feelings in them. I remembered those feelings when I reread it, it was really nice. It can also be amusing to go back and read those oddball dreams, or to wonder what the heck you ate for dinner that made you have that dream.

But, I agree with Walms in that if you don't care about keeping a log to reread and it doesn't help you with recall, it's up to you whether to stop or not.

For us lazy people it brings more of a hassel than an actual reward.

I got lazy and stopped and my recall and lucid dream frequency went down with it I'd recommend experimenting- stop for a couple of weeks, see how the recall and LD frequency goes. If it has an impact, judge for yourself if it is worth it!

Dream diary forces recall. Since I started journalling I've remembered at least 1 dream a night, sometimes as much as 3.
Before it was often a big fat 0.

I highly disliked keeping my journal. I hate writing and it was just annoying writing down 3-5 dreams every morning. so i stopped ^_^

Originally Posted by moonshine

Dream diary forces recall. Since I started journalling I've remembered at least 1 dream a night, sometimes as much as 3.
Before it was often a big fat 0.

I wouldnt use words like FORCE when you are talking about dream journal. Dream journal is really an aid. And as you will progressively find out, it helps not only with recall, but with understanding yourself as a whole.

Still. If you would like not to use dream journal, just remember, that success is not about journalling dreams, but about recalling them.

don't stop the recall!!!

if you stop writing your dreams down, at lot of times what happens is as the month progress you slowly forget more and more. and then your dream recall goes poop

if the dream is boring and you don't want to write about, at least think about the dream first thing you wake up in the morning. really recall of the details the same as if you were writing. and take just a minute to paraphrase the dream in a sentence or two. it doesn't have to sound pretty, no one else is going to read it.

its just more important to recall the dream and think about for a minute or two. remembering the dream when you wake up isn't enough

don't stop. If you must, don't write down every detail, but just write down key words. For example, if you have a dream about a giant spider in a tutu selling you pizza, don't write every detail, just write "spider, tutu, pizza" and you'll remember it when you read it.

But a while ago I got to the point where I could remember about 2 vivid dreams a night, so I stopped writing. I could still remember the dreams, but once I started writing in my journal again, I started having a lot more DILDs. The reason that happened is because the dream journal serves two purposes. There's the obvious: improving recall, and the second is that when you write something down, it engraves it in your mind more. This isn't only to help you remember it necessarily, but to help you keep thinking about it more during the day, even if its subconsciously. It helps to keep that "dream feeling" with you longer, so when you do reality checks they're more useful. It brings the dreams to the surface of your mind, making dreams more relevant to your daily life.