Thread: Dragon's Workbook

Ok, I haven't been keeping up writing in my DJ at all. For some reason, I just wake up and don't write in it. I keep saying that I will try harder, but I never do. I always end up stopping. Maybe I'll try keeping an audio DJ for a bit.

Originally Posted by DragonMaster21

Ok, I haven't been keeping up writing in my DJ at all. For some reason, I just wake up and don't write in it. I keep saying that I will try harder, but I never do. I always end up stopping. Maybe I'll try keeping an audio DJ for a bit.

Sure, the audio DJ sounds like a great experiment to try. I've often thought that this could work really well but practical matters (Wife is going to hear if I start muttering into my phone) have convinced me to stick to the pen-and-paper tag book for now.

Hey, did you ever get the chance to try out Chimpertainment's suggestion of just writing some keywords for the dreams when you wake up? This can be surprisingly effective. After a while, writing out the entire dream took so long and became so burdensome that I just couldn't stick with doing it anymore. I wound up switching to this approach, and now it just requires at most a couple of minutes to get all the keywords down. (And that's on a big recall night.) The fact that the task becomes so easy is quite motivating (at least for me.)

I then type up the full versions online some time when things are less hectic. You could type up full versions on DreamViews later in the day when you have a break. (I use a Google Drive doc for non-lucids and post all lucids to DV.)

One motivational tip that should apply to either approach: keep the dream journal or phone on your bedside table, within immediate reach. Form a habit of not getting out of bed until you pick it up. If you wake up having to whiz really badly, that's okay -- grab the DJ and take it with you. Just make sure that you have it in your hands before you get out of bed. That should help keep it on your mind.

Let us know how your experiments go!