Dreams are thoughts you didn’t have time to think about during the day.
My dreams have been unusually vivid lately—full of color and sound, strange and derivative, a compilation of memories and random bits of information and events. There have been recurring themes, patterns, and people.
While going through my morning routine the last few days, I noticed that a number of troubling questions and past events kept popping up. Each day, I pushed them aside, thinking, I will deal with it later.
Of course, later rarely comes, so I wonder if much of the processing that should happen while I am awake is happening while I sleep.
If I look really closely, I can see there is a correlation between my dreams and those deep questions with which I have had little time to grapple.
I am not into dream analysis, that is, looking for symbols in dreams and attaching meaning to them, but I do believe dreams can be revelatory. I believe God speaks to us in different ways, and dreams are one of those ways. I also believe dreams often reveal what is buried in our subconscious and can compel us to pay attention and maybe act.
So–I’m thinking about starting a dream journal, a place that I can record the bits and pieces of my dreams I remember and see if I can make some sense of them or if I can tease out those things that Spirit and my subconscious are trying to tell me. I’d like to see what shows up.
I’ve never “dream journaled” before, but I imagine it is telling experience.
What about you? Have you ever kept a dream journal?
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I have never dream journaled…but then again I rarely remember my dream.
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Is not dreaming the same as not remembering a dream? For the longest time I was convinced that I didn’t dream
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We all dream…I think 🤔
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If we rarely remember, then how could we really know 🤔
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Rarely? Or don’t remember them?
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I know that we all dream but I don’t often remember them.
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This is my first time ever hearing about a dream journal and I’m immensely curious. Considering it’s your subconscious talking to you, it would make sense that you could stitch pieces together to get a story.
Are you going to try it out yourself?
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Yes. I’m going to try it. I think I have the perfect journal. It’s covered with images of the moon in various phases. Perfect, right?!
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I can’t think of anything more perfect.
Hope you find something meaningful as you start writing in it
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Me too! Thanks!
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I have not ever kept a dream journal, but I think it is a great idea. Like you, I have experienced incredibly vivid dreams over the past several months. Almost like watching a movie, except I am right in the middle of it. Thanks for the inspiration.
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Let me know if you try it out!
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A great idea, I’m rarely aware of what I’ve dreamed, but when I do, I find it interesting to dig beneath the story, there’s often something rarely accessible in the conscious mind that rises to the surface like a revelation.
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Yes. I am interested in seeing what those “inaccessibles” are. Have you kept a dream journal before?
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Happy journaling Chandra! :)I have always thought I should do this. I usually remember my dreams. And I remember many dreams from as far back as grade school. I few from even earlier than that. There many themes that repeat. Most of those are stress dreams. LOL.
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No stress dreaming! 😀 You should do it. See what turns up!
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I did for a while, on the theory that it would feed my writing. It didn’t, but it did mean that I remembered my dreams more often and more clearly while I was keeping it. When I stopped, so did my memory of what I dreamed.
Except for last night, when I had a couple of very vivid and strange dreams, one of which had me looking a lot like Oliver Cromwell. I think that’s a first.
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Oliver Cromwell? I’m dying with laughter. I needed that today. 😀
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I never thought about a dream journal. Interested to hear how yours goes
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I’ll update at some point, I’m sure.
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I’ve constantly thought about it, would like to do 1.
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Try it! Let us know how it turns out!
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Typically, my dreams deal with anything I’m worried about during my waking life. I don’t keep a consistent dream journal, but I do make sure to record the details and tell my daughter because she has a dream book, and then I sort it out from there.
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I imagine most of our dreams are really about our stressors.
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