The title says it all! Specifically, I’m talking about the dream journals on the ld4all forums.
Why make your dream journal public? Are you trying to inspire other lucid dreamers? Or you just want to let out your personal stories like on a blog? You might even be posting here to help yourself get a lucid dream! Or maybe it’s your only dream journal you have? What are your reasons?
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To be honest, my first DJ was on this forum. I kind of violated the rule of having a backup journal somewhere else, but oh well! Back in my first years here, I was really socially inexperienced… so some things I talked about got too personal.
As time went it, it seemed pointless to update it. After all, what made my dream journal different from the other several dozen journals? I was just one of the many people doing the same thing. On top of it all, I had this expectation for at least one reply for every entry. I think the last stake was when I barely got any replies. Yeah, I know it’s irrational to expect a reply all the time, but back then it was the reason why I stopped the updates.
I’m thinking I should restart my DJ (without expecting replies, of course). It may seem pointless even now, but perhaps it helps me set my mind on lucid dreaming.
I don’t really know, it’s nice sharing my experiences with other people who understand what I’m talking about. I’m not really looking for anyone’s approval or for people to hang off of my every word, but the odd bit of encouragement here and there really helps. And then of course there is motivation. Whether I’ve told them or not, many people’s journals have helped me along, and in the end I hope my journal helps someone else out.
I have this odd compulsion to share when I know I have something in common with someone. In my immediate environs, there is NOBODY that I have the interest of LD’ing in common with. When I discovered LD4ALL back in 1999 I felt like I had found a group of birds of my own feather. Some part of me just NEEDS to add my share to this little community project.
Reading the dreams of others has inspired me. Part of me hopes that my dreams will have the same effect on whoever comes across them.
Books on LD’ing are the distilled results of Dream Journals in the lab and experiments. There’s some feeling of empowerment that comes from going straight to the dreamers themselves instead of having an author or Ph. D. telling you what HE or SHE got from examining the case studies, giving you a little more freedom to draw your own conclusions.
Stephen LaBerge is a brilliant man that has made his mark in dreaming history, but in the end he’s just that: a man. He puts on his pants every day like us and his thinking is just as subjective as that of the rest of us. Confining your personal dream research to LaBerge’s work is confining your view to LaBerge’s view even if he strives for an all-inclusive take on things.
Well the reasons I think someone would upload a DJ on here, would be the encouragement from others, they’d probably give you tips and they’d be able to help a bit more than a normal thread since they know what you’re dreaming of. The only reason I haven’t is, being a 15 year old, my dreams are often inappropriate for this type of forum, and I’d rather not get banned.
If I did have a dream journal on here, the reason would be: I guess share my personal stories withthe world. And let them see what my dream life is like!
The forum format may not be ideal for sharing DJ’s. Say, a 10-page DJ got bumped by a new post after a long time, I skim-read from the beginning, want to comment on something from the 4th page… but would feel kind of useless if I did, since that comment about something on the 4th page can only end up on the 10th or 11th page. Unlike on a blog, there’s no differentiation between comments and entries-- they’re all posts. I hesitate to flood all the watchers who watch for dream entries rather than comments.
But while I rarely ever comment on other people’s LD4all DJ’s for the reasons above, I do read many. And I enjoy reading them, and only hope that my own DJ can be just as enjoyable My paper DJ is just messily written keywords used to jog some memory of what happened. The dreams I post here are all in their polished form, kind of, so this is I guess where I practice writing.
Despite all I said about the format-- me, too. It was only yesterday morning I actually followed through with this compulsion to put all the LD entries in a Word file and print them all.
The reason that I keep a journal is to let myself remember joyful moments that happened inside a dream even ND’s do have a charm and of course I post dreams to let you see what my LD’s are like
Unlike on a blog, there’s no differentiation between comments and entries-- they’re all posts. I hesitate to flood all the watchers who watch for dream entries rather than comments.
My paper DJ is just messily written keywords used to jog some memory of what happened. The dreams I post here are all in their polished form, kind of, so this is I guess where I practice writing.
It was only yesterday morning I actually followed through with this compulsion to put all the LD entries in a Word file and print them all.
even ND’s do have a charm and of course I post dreams to let you see what my LD’s are like 