Dream Journal?

As a young teenager i have some petty rude dreams and the idea of writing them down for a family member to find scares me. I have really good dream recall and i can remember up to five days back of my dreams, do i really need a dream journal? Many thanks.

use some words that mean something to you, had a good conversation, talked to a DC, ate with a DC.

These will be associated with whatever took place in the dream, totally private but give recall to the dream.

I agree that a lot of dream content is personal and does not need to be shared

I once used the words, "yadda, yadda, yadda....." (if you know that Seinfeld episode) to skip over some sexually explicit material. I didn't want others to read that part. But I realized my journal is for my eyes only and nobody else reads it and now I just go ahead and write everything even if I am ashamed of it.

I think it is important to be honest with yourself and your dreams because you aren't fooling anybody. Certainly not yourself! And some of the weird shameful things we experience in dreams and don't want others to know about are significant and worth remembering. (Actually why are they shameful at all? Makes me think about myself and what my values are.... and we should all consider that same question ourselves....)

ANYWAY, be as rude and graphic as the dream itself. Use your own coded words if you have to and keep your journal in a safe place.

When I was a teenager, my boyfriend (now ex) read my dream diary and got immensely jealous of what he read, I ended up destroying the diary, and not keeping one, as I couldn't trust him not to read it. I really wish I had it now, as I have ones from later on and looking back over them can be insightful. In my case I should have gotten rid of the boyfriend not the diary :) ! I'm not suggesting that you get rid of your family though!!! Just that if you feel you should keep one, then go ahead. I like the suggestions by Haggart and Peter. I definitely feel that what goes into a dream diary is personal, and no-one has a right to break that trust and read it.

I now do everything on the computer. I have terrible handwriting and I am really slow. I use Evernote, because it's free and because it allows for tagging and named notebooks. Tagging dreams is great since you can pull up all dreams that contain a specific character, a specific symbol, or whatever. Your account at Evernote requires a login so that will solve your privacy problem, but you can also set it up to "remember me" if logins annoy you.

The best part is that it's all in the cloud so you can access your notebooks from any device anytime, anywhere, search, sort, etc. For me it's the way to go. You could, for example, keep your phone, laptop, or tablet by your bed, if you have one, and leave the app open. When you awaken you can just start writing.

if u have terrible handwriting like me, no one i mean no one can read it. bad handwriting is good wen it comes to personal matters. :lol:

LOL- i used to work with another culture in one job and would write in constant string justlikethisanditisalmostimpossabletogetifthisisnotyourfirstlanguage and with a few spelling mistakes it was great

Blue-Eyes wrote: As a young teenager i have some petty rude dreams and the idea of writing them down for a family member to find scares me. I have really good dream recall and i can remember up to five days back of my dreams, do i really need a dream journal? Many thanks.

You may not need one but it still may help as they can help more then just in helping one to remember dreams. Keeping a dream journal also helps to signal to the subconsciousness that your dreams are very important to you.. it may help get its attention one can say by having a strong focus on dreams and the attention of the subconsciousness can help one to LD. eg the more you think of dreaming and LD the more likely that in itself is to trigger off a LD for you.

But if you do remember your dreams well.. doing a lot of reading on LD stuff will help get across to your subconciousness strongly that you wish to LD anyway (but make sure you are having that focus strong DAILY.. when someone is recording their dreams in the hope it will help them to LD.. they are also thinking even its subconsciously at the same time "Im doing this to help me to LD" hence having mind on that which can help trigger.

Blue-Eyes wrote: As a young teenager i have some petty rude dreams and the idea of writing them down for a family member to find scares me.

:D Just dont do what my sister did as a teen when writing in her diary. She wrote a sentence which she thought was in a code but when my mother read and understood and got her into trouble. She was around 13 years old when she wrote "While the cats are away, the mice will play" (refering to mum and dad being the cats and the mice playing being her and her boyfriend just starting to get sexual). She got all kinds of questioning from mum for what went on for that quote in her diary :lol: Over 20 years ago now but I still think its so funny. (my poor sister wasnt as smart as I was and always got caught out while I was always doing far worst things and never got found out).

So make sure anything written in code isnt going to be unstandable to your parents 8-) they may well be smarter then you think!! :oops:

Blue-Eyes wrote: As a young teenager i have some petty rude dreams and the idea of writing them down for a family member to find scares me. I have really good dream recall and i can remember up to five days back of my dreams, do i really need a dream journal? Many thanks.

Me too im a teenager, but me, i write bad wrote like that; f"ck, s"ck in my journal.