Subject: I can't keep a dream journal,
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Posted on: 2016-03-22 10:31:00 UTC
because I can't remember my dreams.
I heard that a good technique to remember your dreams is to keep a dream journal.
A dream journal of the dreams you can't remember yet.
I feel like that wasn't thought out very well.
My dad pointed me toward this article in the New Yorker; it's about writer's block, and I found it rather interesting, so I thought I'd share it with the rest of you guys.
I'm not a dream journal person, more of just a regular journaling type. I still found this article really interesting and maybe if I start having consistent dreams, I'll try it out!
because I can't remember my dreams.
I heard that a good technique to remember your dreams is to keep a dream journal.
A dream journal of the dreams you can't remember yet.
I feel like that wasn't thought out very well.
I think when I was studying dream journals, it said to write down "anything" when you wake up in the morning. Your brain will finally get the message that it has to come with something, so it should start remembering dreams.
I tried to get stuff off of my dream journal computer... hard drives don't retain information for an entire decade.
... in my experience, at least, is to be woken up in the middle of them. For this, small children are ideal, but in the absence of those, it's possible to achieve the same effect electronically.
What you do is, you set yourself two or three alarms for utterly random times of the night. For best results, find an alarm that starts off quietly - the level of someone stirring in the next room - but after about a minute, ramps up to ear-shattering volume. After a week or two of dealing with those, you won't need the alarm any more - you'll wake up to every single sound in your house!
hS
Know where I can get any?
Having to remember my dreams (being treated by a psychoanalyst, so it's kinda given) actually helped me remember my dreams.
I just can't figure it out.
... since my HTML is weak, but I can do a flow-chart by the way of numbered list:
1) You have trouble remembering your dreams.
2) For whatever reason (psychoanalytical therapy, for example) you need to start remembering them.
3) You find yourself remembering them more often.
4) ???
5) Profit.
Hope this helps.
The entire thing is essentially '4) ???,' because nobody knows how it works?
Another mystery to solve!
Fascinating.
What I fond really interesting was that I've been keeping a dream diary for several years now, mostly because I don't want to chronicle my tedious life. Now that I think about it, all these years I've had it I've never experienced too much writer's block. I'll remember this if I ever get it again.