Keeping a Dream Journal

By Tina on 27th October, 2009 | Filed under health & wellbeing

I have really bizarre dreams, and I have a tendency to sleep walk and sleep talk as well, much to the amusement of Bill. I noticed a few years ago that the bizarre dreams tend to occur more frequently when I am stressed out.

I’ve had dreams where there have been glow in the dark spiders crawling all over my bedroom walls and Bill has woken up to me screaming because I couldn’t kill them all. Another time I dreamt that the Queen of England had made an appointment with me to visit and buy our car and again Bill had woken up, only to find me in the lounge room looking out the windows to see if the Queen had turned up!

I’ve got no idea what these, or any of the other weird dreams I’ve had, mean and seriously I’m a bit worried to find out in case it’s proven that I HAVE actually lost the plot!

But I’ve been thinking recently that I should start keeping a dream journal so I can monitor my dreams. So I’m going to keep a notepad and a pen by my bed and each morning when I wake up, I’m going to joy down whatever I dreamt about.

I read that you should keep the journal for at least a month before you start trying to make sense of your dreams. That way when you look back over them, you may be able to see a recurring pattern.

Then once you can see a pattern – and a pattern always exists – you’re half way to interpreting your dreams.

I also read an easy way to make sense of your dreams is to remember that everything and everyone one in your dreams is you. So if you dream about being chased by a dinosaur, you are the person being chased and you are also the dinosaur. (That wasn’t one of my dreams, BTW!) You might ask yourself why you feel like a dinosaur and why you are chasing yourself.

Once you’ve used this method of interpreting your dreams, a lot of sense and truth is revealed and you can work on those underlying problems.

Sweet dreams!