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How to Keep a Dream Journal

Dreams - Tips for Remembering Dreams and Keeping a Dream Journal

Just as keeping a waking journal is helpful for writers, keeping a dream journal is an excellent exercise for writers to stimulate their creativity and even to produce ideas for stories.  

Dreams can be a gauge for what is going on in our waking lives. Very often it is a reflection of our emotional state, reflected in strange, imaginary events. Remembering, recording and analyzing your dreams can give us startling insights into ourselves.

Those who have studied sleeping people say that all people dream. But, not all people dream the same way and not everyone can remember their dreams. Women are more likely to dream in color than men and they are often more likely to remember their dreams.

Before you can begin keeping a dream journal, you must be able to recall your dreams. The best way to do that is to wake slowly. People who wake up slowly are more likely to remember their dreams than those who leap out of bed at the first sound of the alarm clock.

Upon awakening, lie still for a few minutes and mentally put yourself back into that twilight state. Recall the last detail, however vague, that you can remember. Hold that in your mind, while completely relaxed and still in the half-awake, half-asleep state. You should find that you are able to recall many of the events in the dream. Once you have remembered all you can, slowly rise. Don't wait too long before recording as many of the details of the dream as you were able to remember.

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You dream throughout the night. Should you awaken, as from a nightmare, lie awake for a moment and recall the details of the dream. Let these images transfer from your dreaming mind to your waking mind before falling back to sleep. You should find that when you awaken, you can recall most of the details. It also helps to give yourself an affirmation, such as, "I will remember the details of this dream and recall them easily when I want to."  If you repeat this, or a similar phrase, to yourself often enough, you will program yourself to recall your dreams automatically, at will.

You can keep a dream journal on-line or you can get an empty notebook or journal. Place a date at the top of the page. Write down as many details as you can remember however bizarre they are - after all, they are only dreams.

Apart from being tools to self-understanding, dreams are also the basis of fictional stories and characters for many writers. Some authors claim that they get a great deal of their inspiration from dreams. Stephanie Meyer, who wrote the Twilight series, claims to have received the inspiration for her vampire love story from a dream.

So, awaken slowly and let yourself remain between worlds. Let the memories from the dream filter into your waking life. Remember to record what you remember as soon as you reasonably can. You will soon become a more powerful dreamer.