Dream Journal Tour: "Keeping It Real". Flip-Through My DIY Dream Notebook

[@tammygiovanna4760]

I think you are so right, I have written down things eye still sleeping can’t see that great! But glad I wrote it right away. It is so easy to forget if it is not written down. Thank you for sharing

[@micaylab1]

Somehow recently I’ve become Very Lucky when it comes to remembering my Dreams and writing them down, because I’ve suddenly become capable of remembering up to 2 or 3 of the Dreams that I had in 1 night and then writing them all down in the morning as soon as I wake up from them!😌

[@spirithubglobal]

Same for me, I figured the more I paid attention to remembering and writing my dreams, the better I remembered them.

[@IvanGarcia-mi7lz]

My dream journal is a little leather book I really like it (: I use for lucid dreaming

[@kinstoned3]

Sometimes I have a dream that I woke up from a dream and that I was explaining everything that happened in that dream and when I realize that I'm still dreaming, I would wake up for real this time and forgot what I was dreaming in the first place.

[@wernergurner]

Although I've kept dream journals for at least 10 years they never triggered a lucid dream. Two methods have worked for me. The first is drawing a trigger symbol on my palm (mine is a capital A signifying Awake and Asleep) and regularly staring at it during the day and asking myself if I'm awake or asleep. Eventually I'll have a dream where I look at my hand, see the A and realize I'm lucid dreaming. The second (and way more insane) yielded not only lucid dreaming but an out-of-body experience. I found this technique online and it involves laying on your back, perfectly still and resisting the desire to roll over. It kind of triggers sleep paralysis.

[@FranciscoHuanaco]

Thanks for your input! Doing reality checks is what worked for me but it's hard to do them consistently. I will try the trigger symbol on my hand! I haven't tried the second technique you describe. How long would you say it takes for it to work? Sounds interesting!

[@wernergurner]

@@FranciscoHuanaco Thanks for your reply. I think about 15-20 minutes. As the sleep paralysis hit I got a combination of a ringing sound with that of a train echoing through my whole body. Then it passed and I "got up out of bed, saw light out of the window where there should've been dark and watched a vague dark shape in my bed. I then tried to fly but my brain still perceived the limits of my room and so" I woke up in my bed.