Dream Journal Entry Three

Dream Journaling: Unlock the Hidden World Within

Every night, you journey to a realm where the impossible becomes real, where you fly without wings, converse with strangers who feel like old friends, and experience emotions more vivid than waking life itself. Yet by morning, these extraordinary adventures fade like mist in sunlight, leaving only fragments—or nothing at all.

Dream journaling is your bridge between these two worlds.

It's the simple yet transformative practice of capturing your dreams on paper the moment you wake, preserving the fleeting visions that your subconscious mind weaves while you sleep. More than just recording nighttime stories, dream journaling is an intimate conversation with the deepest parts of yourself—a dialogue with the 90% of your mind that operates beneath conscious awareness.

How It Works

The practice is elegantly simple:

Keep a journal beside your bed. The moment you wake—before checking your phone, before getting up, before the dreams slip away—reach for your journal and write. Describe everything you remember: the scenes, the people, the emotions, the bizarre logic that made perfect sense moments ago. Don't worry about grammar or coherence. Just capture it all.

Do this consistently. Every morning, even if you remember only fragments or feelings. Your dream recall will strengthen like a muscle with practice.

Review and reflect. Periodically read through your entries. Notice patterns, recurring symbols, emotional themes. Your dreams often speak in metaphor and symbol, revealing truths your waking mind might overlook.

Why It Matters

Dream journaling opens doorways you never knew existed. It sharpens your memory, deepens self-awareness, and can spark creativity by tapping into your mind's most unfiltered storytelling. Many people discover solutions to waking problems, process difficult emotions, or even achieve lucid dreaming—the ability to become aware and conscious within the dream itself.

But perhaps most profoundly, dream journaling reminds you that your inner life is vast, strange, and worthy of attention. It's an act of honoring the full spectrum of your consciousness, acknowledging that who you are extends far beyond the person you present to the world each day.

Your dreams are waiting. All you need to do is remember them.

Entry Three: The dreamer hasn't been sleeping well and had a vivid dream about visiting their friend Vivian at their old house. In the dream, Vivian's dad (Mr. O) was angry that the dreamer had stayed the night, which led to a big fight between him and Vivian. Vivian stormed out onto the roof, and just before the dream ended, the writer asked Mr. O to use the bathroom.

1/5/2017

I haven’t been sleeping very well these last few days, we can blame it on the monsters in my head I suppose… anyway, this morning I had a dream about my friend Vivian and their old house. Vivian and I used to live down the street from one another until the big move. They moved to Colorado and I moved here, to Downey. Which for me, really isn’t that big I guess. The dream lasted about an hour, but in that time so much had happened. I was at Vivian’s, visiting. Mr. O, my friend’s dad, was being a total dick: usual. The shading of the house was dirty colored browns, mustard-toned yellow, dark greens, and it was always super dark. In my waking state, it almost seemed like it was dirty. So I spent the night at my friend’s house and the bulk of my dream was based around what had happened the morning after I had spent the night. Mr. O for one, didn’t seem to pleased that I had actually spent the night. So he and Vivian fought about that, I remember their being words that were exchanged, but I don’t remember what those words were. All I remember is that the yelling had intensified and that Vivian had stormed out of the house and climbed up onto the roof. Right before I woke up I had the need to pee, so I politely asked Mr. O if I could use his bathroom.

Knowing what I know now, almost ten years later, I know this was the first re-entry I was supposed to clock before quitting entirely, but this is the beginning of a ten year journey and, I am ... not that bright. Common themes in the dream were mustardy browns and yellows symbolizing creativity and confidence according to Magicdecor's analysis of Color Psychology. So because it was dirty in my waking the house we were dreaming of meant that I had to think creatively about the slump I was slowly getting into on weed.