Dream Journaling
Dream journaling is the practice of recording your dreams before you forget them. All dreams can be the key to unlocking the creativity during your life awake. Some people like to draw what they seem, while others like to write. You can purchase a journal designed for dream journaling.
Benefits of Dream journaling
Dream journaling can help you with dream analysis, strongly recommended by many articles. They can help you realize patterns and details to make your interpretation complete.
Dream journaling can also help you with lucid dreaming! You may be able to observe features carefully, so you may change them in your dreams. Some lucid dreamers think that they can change the aspects in the dreams into the descriptions inside their journals easily.
Dream journaling can also help with nightmares. People often say that writing down their nightmares made them less fearful. That way, you may process your emotions better and help track your emotional state by identifying the feelings in your dream.
Dream incubation is an idea that is an individual focus on a problem before dreaming, their dreams might lead them to a solution. So based on that idea, when you look back to the journal you might find solutions to your problems.
How to Keep a Dream Journal
Anyone can make a dream journal. It doesn't have to be a 'journal' either. You can voice record on your phone or type it out on your laptop. One might find it especially supportive when change occurs in one's life.
Nevertheless, researchers suggest a few ways to get the most benefit of dream journaling:
1. Journal during nighttime awakenings— that way, you can remember more.
2. Set a purpose-- at bedtime, tell yourself you want to remember your dreams
3. Get sufficient sleep-- dream as much as you can (adults need at least 7 hours of sleep per day)
Happy dream journaling!
References
Summer, Jay (2024) What is a Dream Journal Used For?
https://www.sleepfoundation.org/dreams/dream-journal<br>
Masterclass (2024) How to Keep a Dream Journal 3
https://www.masterclass.com/articles/how-to-keep-a-dream-journal<br>
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