PS: Question

[crows]

Have any of you got experience keeping a regular dream journal? Either public or private, computerized or written longhand...

If so, how do you keep it? Do you write down all the dreams you have, or just ones that seem particularly vivid or interesting? Does it help you remember dreams better when you wake up, with practice? Does it help you have more control over your dreamscape?

I figure, everything - every stimulus, pleasant or otherwise - is some kind of resource. I might as well start trying to make use of more of them.

Comments

[skizzywicket.livejournal.com]

I keep a journal next to my bed so I don't even have to get up to reach it. It's helpful on more than one level -- if you have a particularly vivid nightmare, writing it down is almost like taking possession of it and making it smaller than you are. After a few weeks, you can look back on your dreams and find reoccurring imagery or certain themes... it's a very good look into your subconscious and, as someone stated above, a great resource for story ideas.

Good luck!