i just recently started a dream journal. i have not been writing down every dream, just the few that i have been awake enough to write down. i was writing down a dream yesterday, and after i finished writing about it i kept writing about completely different things, like a normal journal. i ended up writing kind of a personal profile, just for kicks. it felt weird to write everything down and see it there. then i wrote about how i wished that i would start writing a novel ive been incubating, and that i wanted to start recording songs.
well today i went out and got stoned(sorry, im not glorifying drug use, just telling a story) and then i walked around my neighborhood. theres a trail along a canal back on this hill completely covered in ivy, with it climbing up trees and fences and stuff. i sat and looked at everything for a little bit, and then i suddenly got the best and most detailed ideas for my book yet. its definitely enough to start writing it. its pretty much a detailed outline of everything that happens in the first chapters, and then a not-so-specefic outline of the rest of the story. it all has to do with the ivy though, thats what the center of the story will be about, and its been right under my nose all this time. just looking out the window now i realized that theres tons of the stuff right in my back yard.
then, after i got home, when i was done writing down the ideas, i started playing guitar and wrote the best song ive ever played. im using lyrics i wrote a while ago that the rest of my band said they like, and that i really like. all i have to do now is turn on the mic and record.
and tonight, i just have to choose which one to work on! 
its gonna be a blast.
but my point is, everyone who doubts the power of crazy journalness should think twice. if writing things down can have this much of an effect, a combined dream journal/waking life journal like i have started could dramatically increase the unity of the dreaming life and the waking life. if i wrote things i wanted to dream about, they would be solidified in my subconcious mind, like what happened yesterday and today. i think writing things down makes them much more concrete to us. and instead of never being able to quite remember that one amazing thought you had, you can just look on a page and read it, exactly how you were thinking it that day.
so now im just wondering if anyone has had a similar experience with journals. i should go though, i feel like ill explode if i dont go work on one of those. 
this is what ive been waiting for.