Dream Journal
Aug. 20th, 2007 11:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bruortonI've decided to start keeping a dream journal, trying to write down what I remember of my dreams first thing in the morning to try to improve my dream recall. I've heard that this works, and that you can even start to be self-aware in your dreams from doing this... which I'm not so sure I do want. Dreams are pretty surreal places. Has anyone else tried this?
My main problem is that to me, dreams are entertaining, engaging dips into my weird unconscious. I relish them, and just want to be able to remember them better so I can continue to enjoy them after I wake up, which for some reason I seem to be pretty bad at, I don't know why. But trying to write them down feels like work. My concern is that I'll become just self-aware enough to subconsciously try to forget my dreams in the morning so that I don't have to write them down. Hm.
My main problem is that to me, dreams are entertaining, engaging dips into my weird unconscious. I relish them, and just want to be able to remember them better so I can continue to enjoy them after I wake up, which for some reason I seem to be pretty bad at, I don't know why. But trying to write them down feels like work. My concern is that I'll become just self-aware enough to subconsciously try to forget my dreams in the morning so that I don't have to write them down. Hm.
