If you’ve been following my social media posts for a while, you’ll know that I post often about dream journaling. Keeping a dream journal has helped me immensely with understanding my dreams and the dream symbols that have appeared over the years. Many of us may turn to a store-bought dream interpretation guide and that is totally fine. From time to time, I need to reach for one when I wake up confused about a dream. Dream interpretation guides help to guide us towards a more general meaning of the dream symbols. But did you know that our dreams can present more personal symbolism for us? When we take the time to journal our dreamtime experiences, we become familiar with the symbols that may appear to us more than once. This is how our dream journal eventually becomes our very own dream interpretation guide. Dream journaling also helps us to open up to more clarity. How? We’re channeling our thoughts into our dream journal.
A dream journal doesn’t always look like a pen with a notebook, although for most of us, it is. As some of you may remember that I’ve shared in the past, you can create a voice-recording of your dream, type up your dream in a notes app on your phone or computer, or write down notes of your dream on pieces of scrap paper (and go into further detail at a later time). Whatever floats your boat.
How to get started?
Decide on a method to record your dreamtime experience. Is it going to be a spiral-bound notebook of durable quality with a glitter pen? Or does a voice recording into your phone or computer work better for you? What about stapled pieces of scrap paper that includes doodle drawings of your dreams? Make it fun for yourself!
Begin to write or record what immediately comes back to you. Don’t worry about the order at this time.
Include any words of conversation, color of clothing that you may have worn (or a type of uniform if worn), facial expressions of those that were involved in your dream, your actions during the dream, and anything else that stood out to you;
Some dreamers prefer to record their dreams as soon as it's over, even if that happens in the middle of the night. If this works for you, keep your journal materials close by on a night table;
How did you feel during the dream and after you awoke? Feelings (i.e. happy, worried, frightened, at ease) during and after a dream are important. Feelings that we experience while dreaming can help us to better understand our dreamtime, even if we can’t quite understand all that was actually going on. Be honest with yourself and allow your feelings to lead you while journaling your dreamtime.
I highly recommend journaling your dreamtime shortly after waking up. If you wait until a later time during the day to record your dreams, there’s a higher chance of forgetting important details or the entire dream all together. It’s happened to many of us.
If you quickly jotted down your dream, now is a good time to go back and fill in the order or complete the scenes. As you’re doing this, you may find that additional information will come to you about your dream.
Be patient with yourself during the journaling process. You’ll eventually fall into a groove of journaling and open yourself up to more clarity of your dreamtime.
Feel free to contact me with any questions about dream work.
Dream well . . .
Sweet Dreams Healing
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