Do you have problems keeping faithfull to your dream journals?
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Do you have problems keeping faithfull to your dream journals?
I often wake up being bombed with info so the recent dreams usually fade away. and if one day I forget to wriite down my dream, the next day I will have nothing to write on!
I guess it has a lot to do with assuming a commitment to yourself thru the dream-journal!
I wanted to start a poll but I couldn’t find the option…
Yeah at times its hard for me to keep it up, I usually have nothin to write down anyway. I think i’ve been to stressed at school 
Oh yes. I remember my dreams at least moderately well every single day, but I probably only write down less than a quarter of them. The reason for this is because I tend to write them up in so much detail that it takes (at the very least) a couple of hours per dream. Sometimes, if it’s a particularly complicated one, I can spend weeks writing it up.
For this reason I have trouble motivating myself to write down every single dream. Worse, I’ll spend ages on the start of a dream one day but find the next day that I have writer’s block and can’t continue without messing it up. I have a lot of old, half-written dreams written down that may or may not ever be completed decently. (Though I did force myself to finish a couple of the oldest ones a while ago.)
So I have a habit of only writing up the especially good dreams - the ones which really stand out. Everything else, I have to leave aside or I’ll never have time for anything else!
I have ebbs and flows to my dream journalling. Sometimes it’s about not having any dream memories upon waking. Sometimes it’s about not having time to get things written down. However, it’s worth the effort to get down as much as I can.
I don’t worry about getting everthing down. It doesn’t have to be perfect. I know from experience that the act of writing dreams down strengthens my connection to the dream world.
I made a poll for you, you can edit the options yourself if you want.
Thanks for setting up the poll, pasQuale.
If I remember them…I usually remember them,like seeing a movie…I don’t always immediatly DJ but it is a good idea,to write a line or two and you can fill in details,if your mind works like that.For example:House with glass bottles…will remind me of the entire dream.That may not work for everyone,whom might need to capture details right away.I will have gone over them time and again in my mind…sso dream journaling later is OK.
And in terms of LD’ing, the important thing about dream journaling is to become more familiar with your dreams, so you are more likely to recognize you are dreaming while you are dreaming.
I woke up today remembering a dream where I accidently scratched a car! I wrote it down in topics and I later noticed I’d wrote laughter(riso) instead of scratch(risco).
This is strange because there wasn’t a strange character istead of the ‘C’, there was absolutelly no letter where it should be! On the other hand it’s very reasonable because I have that paranoia that people always laugh at me!
Sorry, stupid post just chit-chatting…
BTW - I didn’t put the poll because I really didn’t see the option there!
I voted yes because it took me over a year to really dedicate myself to writing down my dreams in my journal each morning that I recalled my dreams. I started, did it for about 6 months then got frustrated and lazy and stopped. Now I am at it again and I feel a lot more dedicated to it. I have a much greater understanding of dreams and how they can help us with this reality. 
Sometimes. 
But I always make at least a few comments about my dreams on the notepad beside my bed. If I don’t get around to writing them up in detail (and most of them I don’t), then at least I still have something written down which I can use to recall the dream later.
yeah its hard keeping it, especially sometimes when you remember soooo much it takes like an hour and a half to write it all down… sigh
I think spending a huge chunk of time writing down dreams in a dream journal is a guarantee that it will eventually fizzle out. There is no way to keep that up, especially if you have a life that is full.
It’s good to try,however…especially if you value dreams and what they contain.Just a good tool…and oh so fun to go back and read.At least for me. 
I agree cindy.
It is a good tool for future dream recall and even interpretation. It is also fun to go back and read then, as you said. 
I feel it’s worth the extra time. 
I’m not saying that I don’t value the process, just that I would rather put 15 minutes a day into it instead of an hour and a half per day. I don’t have that kind of time.
Strange, since I voted I keep my journal faithfully, I had had several nights I did not remember any dreams at all or forgot them before could get the notebook. And a day when I had something to type, but felt too lazy and left it in the notebook. 
I have only had a DJ for a few days now, but each night before having a long dream, I have had a dream where I “wake up” and not write in my dream journal and go back to sleep then “wake up” the next day mad that I didn’t write down my dream. I probably only have had those dreams because remembering my dreams have been on my mind a lot before going to sleep.
I find that the act of writing dreams down, even if it’s only fragments ends up being very rewarding. I end up having much better dream memories in the days that follow.
I have trouble keeping a journal because I start writing it down but then I run out of time and take it to school to finish it and then I forget to take it home and I don’t finnaly remember to take it home until a week later and then I’ve lost motivation. Grrrrr.