Sleep is a journey into the depths of the subconscious, moving in time and space, contacts with entities of a subtle plane. In a dream, information is revealed to a person, access to which in ordinary life is limited. But few people are able to fully work with this data. The main reason is the inability to remember the dream. A special dream diary is called upon to solve the problem. What is it and how do you manage it?
Why do I need to record dreams
Many adults do not think at all about the importance of dreams, preferring not even to think about them. As a result, they miss the opportunity to:
- to keep in memory the unusual events that, although they happened "for fun", but still have a bright emotional color;
- to perceive the information given by the subconscious and use it in their own interests;
- learn to see lucid dreams (this practice necessarily involves taking detailed notes of your dreaming experience).
With each recorded dream, the person improves the ability to remember dreams. The fact is that the mind receives a signal about the importance of "night pictures", so the next time it focuses on them, trying to keep them in memory as accurately as possible.
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Diary for dreams - what is it
A dream diary is any material object that contains records of dreams. There are no clearly established rules, there are only recommendations, to follow or not - everyone's choice. You can record dreams:
- on separate sheets of paper of any size;
- in a notebook;
- in Word program or other text editor;
- on your own page of the Internet resource;
- in the mobile application.
Working on paper, a person does not depend on the whims of electricity and the state of charge of the battery. On the other hand, if you record dreams using a smartphone, you can always carry a diary with you, which will neither take up extra space nor attract the attention of others.
How to record dreams correctly
There are several basic tips, following which significantly increases the effectiveness of keeping a dream diary.
It is necessary:
1. Record a dream immediately after waking up. Fragments disappear from memory with every minute: it will be impossible to completely restore them in an hour. Therefore, the dream should be recorded immediately. To do this, you need to hold a paper and a pen under the pillow - it is necessary to indicate at least the main points of the dream, so that then, focusing on them, make full-fledged entries in the diary.
2. Always indicate sleep time. At least the date, but it is better to write down the approximate hour of falling asleep and waking up. Based on the data collected, it is possible to establish in which half of the day the most vivid dreams are dreamed, and when dreams are completely absent.
3. Record information as detailed as possible. A complete picture of a dream is a guarantee of its high-quality study. The purpose of a dream diary is to learn how to analyze images, group and identify them. A person will be able to compose his own dream book and in the future to be guided by it when interpreting dreams.
4. Don't miss a day. No matter how insignificant the dream may seem, it must be written down. A couple of lines are better than nothing: regularity is a guarantee that the mind is more likely to train in remembering dreams.
It is not recommended to show the diary to anyone. Criticism from others is unacceptable, as it can discourage the desire to continue working. You need to write down dreams at least in order to learn how to remember them. What to do with this information next is a personal choice. But it is better to own the data from dreams than to irrevocably lose them every morning: any knowledge can turn a person's life in the most unexpected way. Dreams should not be underestimated.
