Dream Journaling

Our journal-writing activity this week: Choose a magic power you’d like to use in a dream tonight. Follow along with the guided instructions in this episode, for a mini writing meditation!

While many writing coaches encourage us to describe and clarify our waking dreams (goals, aspirations, etc.), there are many reasons to explore and befriend your nighttime dreams, too. In this episode, I share fun facts about oneirology, the scientific study of dreams. I promise you that every dream contains powerful insight or application to your actual life, once you learn how to decode them.

Let me guess: You’d love this episode even more if you could only remember your dreams? Count yourself in the majority, which is why my Dream Journaling Workshop specifically addresses this, by including proven techniques to guarantee dream recollection or your money back. (JournalTalk, Episode #44, November 11, 2014)

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Steve raises a question on which Mari and I respectfully (and playfully) disagree. Are your journals stuck in a past that is no longer relevant? Or, are there good reasons (besides wandering down memory lane) to go back and re-reading old journal entries?

Some lifelong journal-writers will say the best part about keeping a journal is the zen-like attention and awareness of the present moment; and going backwards in time to read old stories is completely counter to that intention. Mari even (gulp!) throws them away!

And while I agree with that mindset, I know that my journals contain some deliciously captured moments, and zen-like insights of which I enjoy reminding myself.

Perhaps the best answer lies in the paradox somewhere in-between. Write as if you’ll throw away your journals, but keep them so you can cherish those “in-the-moment” reflections! (Click here to Tweet this!)

Please share: What do you get from re-reading your journals? Inspiration? Material for publication? Future blog-posts? A chronology to pass on to future generations? Entertaining reminders of a time gone by?

If you have a question for a future episode of JournalTalk Q&A, please call and leave a voicemail with your question at 1-805-751-6280 (only normal toll charges may apply). If your question is featured, we will send you a thank-you gift for sharing your voice! (JournalTalk Q&A, Episode #15, November 4, 2014)

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Q&A: “Why Should I Read My Old Journals?”