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This is exactly what I needed. For the longest time i've been stressing about writing as much detail as i can and it's become kind of a chore. Now i know i dont have to stress that much and i can have fun exploring and dissecting my choices and motives in my dreams!
We use a Dream Journal to learn the intricacies of our own self, so that we can find similar themes that repeat themselves. We are more likely to perform the question and test when we notice one of these dream themes. After watching the video, I realized that I was only 50% right which would make sense. Just like many other parts of Lucid Dreaming, you are giving additional information that I can't seem to find anywhere else. Not only that, but the extra information makes so much sense! I wanted to let you know Daniel that after completing the How to Explore Lucid Dreaming course, I have finally had my first Lucid Dream in many years last night! I'm sad to say that I forgot to perform the question, but had a feeling it was a dream. I performed the nose pinch test to confirm that feeling. I remembered to stabilize the dream and remembered to attempt a dream goal, but I awoke after trying too hard. The whole dream probably lasted 5 minutes or so. Either way, I was quite excited when I woke up, and can't wait for the next! I sound like a broken record at this point, but thank you so much for all of this great content!
So glad I've been able to help you this way! And congratulations on having the mental fortitude to put the advice into practice, it's less common than people assume (so you're awesome!)
This makes so much sense now. Before my process for dream journaling would be to just hope that I get an I interesting dream so I can write it down. And if I didn't? Well then I wouldn't dream journal. But with this approach it doesn't matter what I dream about, it's about my dreamselfs reaction and actions that I'm looking out for. Because since I was so focused on the environment I would frantically try to write down as much as I could about the "environment" that my entries would look something like this, "I find myself in some theater with people. We huddle around something and look at it. I accidentally bumped into someone and it becomes awkward. The dream ends." Boring right? Not only is it boring for me to write but also to read. Which is why I wouldn't reread my dream journal because it felt like torture reading these. But now I write my entries as if my dream self is a character in a story that's written in first person. Which immediately makes it more interesting to read AND write.
This is such a great video. Thank you! I feel like the distinction between “what” and “why” / “who” isn’t being made enough by other lucid dreaming creators. I need to remind myself of it too, sometimes.
The value youre giving out on lucid dreaming is insane bro. Im genuinely grateful for your existence on youtube, on a place with such misinformation and oversaturation for the sake of appeal to the more lucrative younger audience your content makes a hell of a difference. Especially for us people with the patience to genuinely invest into this skill and not just mentally masturbate on some random "lucid dream in 4 minutes (67% success)" video. Youve earned my respect man keep being a great teacher.🔥
If all the most helpful information from this most professional lucid dream expert I’ve ever come across doesn’t work for me I have no excuse. These UA-cam videos are so far above past books on the subject matter. Truly blessed
I just wanted to let you know that you dreaming technique: "How to make it daytime?" when it's dark in the dream worked really well! Just focus on a light source and let it become brighter. Maybe you remember this question from one of the previous streams. Now I just need to work on flying HIGHER and switching places properly.
Yes this is very extremely important for lucid dreaming I got my first lucid by just writing down dreams in my book. I’m trying to remember my dreams again because I quit on lucid dreaming and should not have done that I would have had lucid dream a few times a month if I did not quit. If anyone read this never give up on lucid dreaming like I did it puts you way back
I absolutely LOVE dream journalling. I'm big on story writing, (working on a story that takes place both in waking life and in the dream world) and knowing how to write an interesting scene has directly helped me write better dream journal entries. The reader must feel the same emotions as the main character - if not more than them - so emotions must be described artistically. On top of that, reading your dreams back and reliving them again is such a blast every time. (But I'm also one of those seemingly rare people that enjoy hearing about someone else's dreams haha)
I dream journal to (1) learn to pay attention to what I'm dreaming, and (2) tell my subconscious that my dreams are worth paying attention to (and worth remembering).
This makes so much more sense! I hear people say to analyze your recorded dreams to look for patterns so when you're dreaming, you will notice those patterns, but all my dreams are so random and there's virtually no pattern to what happens. But if I look at WHY, then maybe I'll see patterns! This video really changed the way I look at dream journaling, thank you for this!
Erm. What I get from this is, that to become lucid in the dream, one must become lucid in waking life., which now that I think about it, is not only quite a tall order, but also a very sensible and useful thing to do for personal development. Which is why I’m looking into lucid dreaming in the first place.
@XgoogleX That's incredible! I can't even imagine what that would be like. I've been working on dream recall for about 2 years now. I'm doing all the things: journalling, waking up slowly, sleep hygiene. I looked at my dream journal which starts in late January this year and there are 14 dreams recorded in it. Do you have any advice beyond the standard advice?
Sorry my English is so bad but i think we need to write our Dreams in Dream Journal bcs thats help to understand our brain how the Dreams feel and looks like :D Thats my opinion Edit: Wooa this is gamechanger or dreamchanger! Thanks Daniel 4this video, now i know how to use Dream Journal properly!!
We dream journal because without recording our dreams most of them will simply fade a few minutes after waking up and we could miss important opportunities to find situations where we could have lucid dreamed. And we can recognise patterns in our dreams and use them, just like we are hackers trying to hack a computer system. The dream journal is a bit like our code book.
It's interesting, I'd been recording emotions, but primarily which ones got me lucid instead of ones that didn't. I'll have to add that to the practice.
😂😂😂 Thank you so much, I remember a few days ago you answered one of my comments and said that you would upload on this very soon, I’ve been waiting for it! And I absolutely trust you now because I had my first lucid dream this morning. Thank you for all your hard work and amazing videos 🫶🏻🩵
For a while I had been following some other lucid dreaming channels and only had some success. Then I found your channel and had way more lucid dreams. Thank you so much for the content! you have saved me so much time!
Thank you for your help I had a lucid dream yesterday night but it didn't feel real I could hear what was going in my surrounding in the real world please explain me what was that
I made dream journal for the sole reason - writing dreams down somehow immediately enchances quality of following dreams. Dunno how and why it works, it simply does
I think we use a dream journal to be able to know what we are dreaming about and what pattern our minds create in our dreams. Like for example I realised that dream journaling for me has helped me realise that in every dream I am with someone or more people and never alone. Other than that dream journaling is a great way to remember the dreams and analyze them. Another thing this amazing act that made me do is remembering my dreams a lot of times. If I suddenly stopped recording , I barely remember any dreams in the morning.
I still struggle a bit with my journaling. I do write almost every single night, but I don't go back to it enough. It's been 3 months since I go through it to assess my new dream signs. Gotta up the work! Thanks Daniel
Hey Daniel! Long time listener/lurker. I have a question for you. There's a certain internet personality on the platform that provided his own tip on how to lucid dream. He's rather polarizing, so I won't name names, but the advice he gives is to try to remember the last thing you were thinking of before you fall asleep. He claims that it will train your brain to remember your dreams and then after about a week you'll just get lucid. I'm skeptical about it, and was wondering what you think about it.
Hey Fredsfreshbeats, firstly thank you for your very kind support, it means a lot to me! So, technically no this won't work as it's a massive oversimplification of human psychology. He's essentially saying "in order to do this one difficult thing, do this even more difficult thing". Which when you look at it that way, it's clearly absurd. That said, the act of attempting to focus on memory, especially by engaging prospective memory (remembering to do something in the future), could lead to lucidity for those who get the balance just right. So, it's essentially an approach that could work in theory, but in practice would be nearly impossible for most people. I know the person your talking about and they tend to have a bit of a habit of taking complex problems and offering very simplistic "solutions" in a confident tone - which is a great way to become popular, but is also pretty misleading. I don't fall into the camp who has strong feelings about this person either way, other than them being a curious social phenomenon. So this isn't coming from a biased hater/fanboy mindset, just an observation. In short, it's partially true, but missing a huge amount of real world complexity. It's a little like saying "to become a millionaire, all you need to do is to start a successful multinational company". When it comes to lucid dreaming, trying any kind of mental focus can be beneficial, even if the principle is nonsensical, as there is a degree of suggestion and beginners luck for those new to the subject. But for regular lucidity, a more nuanced and broad ranging understanding of how one's mind works is needed. Generally, if something sounds like a caricature of an solutionrather than a fleshed out concept founded on a logical system, it's rarely much more than the intellectual equivalent of clickbait. I hope that helps.
I really appreciated this video. I will probably listen to it again. I believe dream journaling is important, and the right way to do it matters a lot. I use a voice recorder right away and later write it down. This was very helpful and to the point. Thanks
Great video! It is so true that what it is about is spotting the differences. Which makes me think of when I had a very easy time getting lucid dreams, because I was depressed and almost never went out of my home. I could just say "Okay so when I'm not in my home, I'm most likely dreaming" and a lot of my dreams were not taking place in my home. So VERY easy. I've just recently come back to lucid dreaming again, and oh does it feel harder now that my dreams and waking life looks more like each other.
In my opinion, we're dream journaling to analyse the common patterns which appears in regular dreams. In the future, maybe, you could recognize thiose patterns while you are dreaming and realize that you're sleep
This video was EXTREMELY useful I have been dream journaling off and on for 4 months wrong and thank god you helped me. I would almost never even touch on what I was feeling or thinking and while my dream recall did get better and I have had some lucid dreams I have not gotten better at remembering my mindset or what I was thinking and this has also not allowed me to put reality checks at all and hopefully this can help me a ton , thanks
My answer to why dream journal, (without listening to the rest of the video, though I should know this, having been following you a while...): To recognize the character of my dreams, so I can become familiar with the tendencies they have, including "dream signs", which hopefully will remind me to do a test to determine if I am dreaming. Also, it can help me spot things in my dreams that have been inspired or "seeded" by recent events in my waking life, so that I hopefully will notice other such dream elements that have been triggered by recent waking events. Also, it reminds me to pay attention to my dreams, which seems to increase my recall of them. I am probably forgetting something....
I will remind myself, when journalling, to focus more on the WHY (my motivations) and "WHO I am being" in my dreams.... and WHY the "WHO" I am being in them fails to lead to lucidity. I'd guess it is also important to take note of "who/how I am being" when I DO achieve lucidity, so that I can try to reinforce the tendency to be those ways, yeah? Thanks for this video!
2:58 Dream journaling is for getting acquainted with what your dreams look/feel like in order to have good understanding of how do they differ from reality.
Another lucid dream from me! Flew for the first time in my dream after remembering your skydiving video. Wow it was CRAZY! Then I lost lucidity from lack of focus and it became a normal dream. Still amazing!!
Feeling lost. Hopeful. I understand, I joined a school and we journaled based on symbols, trying to interpret. I found it to be... too subjective and indirect. I am the dreamer. I have learned how to wake up and influence. I have a part of my mind struggling, kicking and screaming right now. Why does it throw a fit? Even now, wanting to go on autopilot. Addicted to the comfort of easy, already familiar subjects. A fear of the unknown. Although this subject is one I am passionate about, the uncertainty of "newness" blossoms into red flags. If I face this fear will it subside like a storm fizzling out? I am watching anxiety and urges of resistance pour down, washing over me and dripping off like rain. Afraid, afraid, afraid. Of what? Deep breaths. Listen. Try. That's all required of you. So many expectations. So very tired. It's a journey, take one step it's alright. It's uncomfortable. I know you don't it. Picky, like being fed a new food with a strange texture. The inner voice says "I don't wanna", ready to cry. I think you'll like it. I promise it won't hurt you. Take a bite. First time riding a bike. First time swimming in a pool. I know the fear of trying. And I'm stronger. It's okay... one bite at a time.
Jeez, i needed this. i was so confused about all the wacky techniques, methods, routines, and alarms- this just set it nice and simple. I have quite a busy schedule and don’t have time for all that nonsense. But anyways, let’s say i started dream journaling as you described, every day. Nothing else. How long would it take to have my first lucid dream?
Thank you so much for your kind support Russell, I massively appreciate it. If you're dream journaling and nothing else, it would take a fair bit of time for you to become entirely familiar with the differences between waking life and dreams - historically, people who have done this (and stayed focused and curious about their dreams), tend to take about a year and a half for lucidity to start to flow regularly or semi-regularly (of course, this depends greatly on the individual). To speed up the process considerably, find the differences as outlined in this video, then in your daytime hours, look for similar psychological/emotional states, and then use those as cues to ask "Am I dreaming?" (seriously, and with a genuine expectation that the answer really could be "yes") and perform a reality test, I'd recommend the nose pinch test. I hope that makes sense? This form of dream journaling, done correctly, is the foundational practice for all meaningful lucid dream strategies, but it's always best to have multiple effective strategies acting in tandem - think of it like filling a bucket with water, if you use one tap, it'll take longer than using two. Take a look around the channel and you'll find other advice that will help compliment what you're doing. If you really want to stick with just journaling, just make sure that you're reading through your journal often, and becoming very familiar with the nature of your dream self, so that you are more likely to spot when you are in that state.
Ive been dream journaling for like 3 years now and i mostly i record what happened in the environment and obsessing every little detail and still getting like no results at all, and when it started to include my emotions, feelings how how i interact with the environment itself, but prioritizing about what i am in a dream i started to get more lucid dreams compared to the last couple of years, you did explained it very well and not to focus on the subjectivity of the dream and stop obsessing every little detail in the dream but actually include what are you in the dream, what emotions, feelings you have and how you interact with the environment itself, totally a new different approach to dream journaling, most people overcomplicate this enough, and hate to admit i am one this nerd who does like 10K words writing about external factors in the dream lmao.
Hey Daniel, usually lurk on the channel, but wanted to say great video. I've been DJing since 2013, and today I learned something new- the distinct difference that the "why" part of DJing makes. I usually journal the events and try to formulate why I did certain things, or acted a certain way, or thought something, etc., but I never looked at it the way you presented it in this video. This knowledge is invaluable, top-tier, and brilliant- thank you for putting great quality LDing content out into the world!
Why do we dream journal: to increase recall, to recognize dream signs (occurrences or unusual objects), to have a written record of my dream experiences, to track repeating themes that are relevant, to recognize what triggers lucidity and how often I experience being lucid, and what I do once lucid. Thank you for clarifying the point of view that will make the difference in lucidity.
Great video!!! I am going to start focusing on the why in my dream journal, and also I ordered a physical book as I was using an app. I am so committed to this process and am excited about the journey. Thank you for all your knowledge. This was probably one of the fastest subs I have ever done! Looking forward to watching your other videos and future content~
When you said dont leave the video after hearing the name I already tought "bro he is gonna say dream jornal" 😂. Honnestly I dream jornal because peoples said it help remember more details of the dreams and the dream signals (which is a interresing part of the book "exploring the world of lucid dream" but I still dont aply on my jorney 💀
Oh man, I am very thankful, for this video, but I really wish, that you would have made this earlier. Now I am kind of happy, that I was lazy with dream journaling before, because I did it completely wrong, so it would have been a waste of time and energy. Now I can start again with the correct approach.
Well, I won't take to the comments and groan about how I hate dream journaling (even though I think my past comments on the subject are telling about how much I dislike doing it), but I will explain what keeps me from doing it. How I've previously dream journaled is through long descriptions of the environment, small details that didn't matter, and feeling like I had to write in a certain tense. What also doesn't help with that is how analytical I can be, often diving into numbers and certain patterns way to much to a degree where I will start collecting data on things that don't matter. While my journaling starts with these sentences that I'm motivated to write, halfway through it becomes a list of what happened with no data because I'm tried of over-thinking and writing down every little thing. Probably a flaw of being a perfectionist but I digress. That's what has kept me from dream journaling where there's so much that I feel like I have to do where it feels clinical and not something of my own. I honestly didn't know how much I would need this video because there's so much I can throw out - so much that I was doing that stopped progress that didn't matter. I don't need to talk about how the produce section was switched the dairy section of a store I was passing by in a dream - I can just say that it was distorted and possible write how it was distorted later if it was still bugging me. Easier said than done as I struggle to even journal a day, but I'll start by recording a dream from last night in a journal after I eat something and finish writing this. I would also like to add that not even journaling in the slightest does cut down on dream recall. Me and my friend often talk about our dreams in the morning but lately we haven't been doing that. My recall has dropped significantly. Hopefully dream journaling will bring it back up! Thanks for the awesome video! I'll have to give it a rewatch as I was very scatter-brained with anxiety trying to watch it as soon as I got home. I do also want to say that the Cosmøtron tattoo looks awesome!
I dont have a voice recorder but i can come back to the dreamjournal and write it again but with the perspective of a lucid dreaming. i can add some details or some extra sketches. without my drawins in my journal i never remembered what the dream was all about because my handwriting sucks. maybe its time to buy a recorder but then again, i think it would lose me much of my time so i rather stick to fysical dreamjournal but when i am wide awake i can come back and add some details in the dream. and also that way i'm more alert in other dreams hopefully. also, when i have certain days like the past four days that i cant recall any dreams or they are very vague i can always think of the thoughts or emotions from the scenes i did written down. thanks for this helpfull video.
yayy ive been so excited for this video!! I actually love dream jounaling lol. my guess on why we do it is to train our mind that dreams are important?
Another tip if you can along with writing also draw the dream as pictures speak WAY more than words in fact you would watch this picture related video if it was only words so draw as well
Great video. I’ve kept my journal going to increase my dream recall and to keep my general awareness active in general and I believe it’s helped me become lucid along the way. Friends of mine ask me why I don’t try to interpret my dreams when I have so much information. To be clear I have wanted more out of my dreams and wanted to ask big questions when I am lucid in a dream. Perhaps asking the same questions in the dream world might render an affirming answer. However I think what you offer here is a simple yet perfect way to be more assertive in finding out important things about our selves without digging up the backyard. It’s fun to go on treasure hunts but I think this technique could provide some good results. My journal writing now will include this question of why- Who am I in the dream? Thanks!
Daniel, would you have any explanation as to why I haven't slept in an entire day and took a two hour nap and I feel full of energy? I'm very concerned.
To answer: "Why do I Dream Journal as a lucid dreamer?" To find the reason to why I am a Mango colored fish. Anyways, thanks for this helpful video! I will try to find and create my own map to me in my dreamworld!
Thank you for this video I never heard it explained this way I was doing it the wrong way. I'm going to start over and it the way you said to Thank you
I was SO CLOSE to reality checking in the dream. Someone I was thinking about appeared behind me and I was about to do one but I didnt and instead I just started talking to them like normal.
Idk how I'm supposed to remember how I was feeling in my dream when I can hardly remember what im doing in my dreams anyways.. I have to write it down within seconds of waking up otherwise I will forget my dream. The memory of it slips away as I'm writing it down so remembering how I felt is even harder..
Yeah using apps is a pretty terrible idea, they tend to be focused on the wrong things, the brain doesn't process the information well, and you outsource the important skills for lucid dreaming to a device - when you should be developing those skills yourself.
@@LucidDreamPortal you know its funny, in story writing the key to writing an interesting story is for events to be causally connected. For example, "The King died and then the Queen died" is more boring compared to "The King died therefore the Queen died of grief". Basically the same thing you said, the "Whys" are more important than the details alone in a story.
Hey! I've been wanting to write down my dreams like this for a while but most of the times I don't remember or know why I made certain decisions or how I felt. I struggle with recalling my own emotions, feelings and thought process in my dreams. Any tips on that?
Can you help me? I have been trying to lucid dream for about 5 days now i have been remembering my dreams but not constantly on day i remember 3 dreams with a lot of detail the other day i remember 1 with little to no detail. Is this normal? And what technique do you have for some on who struggles to sleep fast .
A question that I have about this "for look your dreams in the future" I maybe already had heard you saying about not just have your dream jornal to write dreams in it but also read daily what you write when you have a time? If you could answer it would be helpful
You want to do anything you can to become more familiar with your dreaming mind. And your dream journal is the most direct window you have into that. So reading your dream journal and assessing it is the best way to do so.
How about the dreams that are like a movie when your watching people do stuff and your not really there just watching like a ghost or someone invisible and you really don't feel anything how do you write down who you are in dreams like that.Sorry if this is a stupid question I'm still new to this
Good to know I've already been doing this, well, when I can, like going to a store in my dream is not for a reason like "I need x thing", I'm just going, but the feelings there I say because they exist I honestly just have no idea what to write though Because usually when I'm waking up, I stay in bed very tired for a bit, and I'm not actually sure if I was asleep or not, because I can have multiple "dreams" in that period, which are all very short and strange and I become aware that I _am_ awake during
What do you do if who I am in the dreams acts exactly like who I am in waking life? When I recall and record my dreams, I notice that the way I act in the dream is exactly how I'd act now (minus realizing how absurd the situation is).
That would suggest that perhaps waking life is also spent lost in thought and autopilot. You are not looking for anything extreme, just the recurring thought patterns and distractions.
@@LucidDreamPortalI've been spending my recent days trying to spot abnormalities by analyzing why I am where I am and how my current possessions came to be my possession. But, that questioning hasn't transferred it's way into my dreams.
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Why do we dream journal? To probe the part of the mind that would be ignored otherwise and too help build a map of the dreaming self
This is exactly what I needed. For the longest time i've been stressing about writing as much detail as i can and it's become kind of a chore. Now i know i dont have to stress that much and i can have fun exploring and dissecting my choices and motives in my dreams!
We use a Dream Journal to learn the intricacies of our own self, so that we can find similar themes that repeat themselves. We are more likely to perform the question and test when we notice one of these dream themes.
After watching the video, I realized that I was only 50% right which would make sense. Just like many other parts of Lucid Dreaming, you are giving additional information that I can't seem to find anywhere else. Not only that, but the extra information makes so much sense!
I wanted to let you know Daniel that after completing the How to Explore Lucid Dreaming course, I have finally had my first Lucid Dream in many years last night! I'm sad to say that I forgot to perform the question, but had a feeling it was a dream. I performed the nose pinch test to confirm that feeling. I remembered to stabilize the dream and remembered to attempt a dream goal, but I awoke after trying too hard. The whole dream probably lasted 5 minutes or so. Either way, I was quite excited when I woke up, and can't wait for the next! I sound like a broken record at this point, but thank you so much for all of this great content!
So glad I've been able to help you this way! And congratulations on having the mental fortitude to put the advice into practice, it's less common than people assume (so you're awesome!)
Alright, I was looking forward to this! Cookie for the algorithm, now let's watch.
This makes so much sense now. Before my process for dream journaling would be to just hope that I get an I interesting dream so I can write it down. And if I didn't? Well then I wouldn't dream journal. But with this approach it doesn't matter what I dream about, it's about my dreamselfs reaction and actions that I'm looking out for.
Because since I was so focused on the environment I would frantically try to write down as much as I could about the "environment" that my entries would look something like this, "I find myself in some theater with people. We huddle around something and look at it. I accidentally bumped into someone and it becomes awkward. The dream ends." Boring right? Not only is it boring for me to write but also to read. Which is why I wouldn't reread my dream journal because it felt like torture reading these. But now I write my entries as if my dream self is a character in a story that's written in first person. Which immediately makes it more interesting to read AND write.
It worksss. Thanks for the video
It worksss!!!!!!🎉🎉
Ah brilliant, I wonder what happened?!?! - And thank you so much Jim!
@@LucidDreamPortal no idea. i have less lucid dreams because of that failed super thank. so still need to catch up😜
This is such a great video. Thank you! I feel like the distinction between “what” and “why” / “who” isn’t being made enough by other lucid dreaming creators. I need to remind myself of it too, sometimes.
When i wanted a video most lucid dreaming portal delivered
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The value youre giving out on lucid dreaming is insane bro. Im genuinely grateful for your existence on youtube, on a place with such misinformation and oversaturation for the sake of appeal to the more lucrative younger audience your content makes a hell of a difference. Especially for us people with the patience to genuinely invest into this skill and not just mentally masturbate on some random "lucid dream in 4 minutes (67% success)" video. Youve earned my respect man keep being a great teacher.🔥
mentally masturbate 😂😂😂 genius. I’m glad that I am past that stage😂
If all the most helpful information from this most professional lucid dream expert I’ve ever come across doesn’t work for me I have no excuse. These UA-cam videos are so far above past books on the subject matter. Truly blessed
Crazy how much knowledge you have and you’re out here sharing your info for free. I’m super grateful for your channel🙏
I just wanted to let you know that you dreaming technique: "How to make it daytime?" when it's dark in the dream worked really well! Just focus on a light source and let it become brighter. Maybe you remember this question from one of the previous streams. Now I just need to work on flying HIGHER and switching places properly.
I'm so glad you found it helpful!
You gave me good hope. Dream journaling is super easy.
Thanks
Yes this is very extremely important for lucid dreaming I got my first lucid by just writing down dreams in my book. I’m trying to remember my dreams again because I quit on lucid dreaming and should not have done that I would have had lucid dream a few times a month if I did not quit. If anyone read this never give up on lucid dreaming like I did it puts you way back
I absolutely LOVE dream journalling. I'm big on story writing, (working on a story that takes place both in waking life and in the dream world) and knowing how to write an interesting scene has directly helped me write better dream journal entries. The reader must feel the same emotions as the main character - if not more than them - so emotions must be described artistically. On top of that, reading your dreams back and reliving them again is such a blast every time. (But I'm also one of those seemingly rare people that enjoy hearing about someone else's dreams haha)
I dream journal to
(1) learn to pay attention to what I'm dreaming, and
(2) tell my subconscious that my dreams are worth paying attention to (and worth remembering).
This makes so much more sense! I hear people say to analyze your recorded dreams to look for patterns so when you're dreaming, you will notice those patterns, but all my dreams are so random and there's virtually no pattern to what happens. But if I look at WHY, then maybe I'll see patterns! This video really changed the way I look at dream journaling, thank you for this!
I dream journal to promote dream recall. I remembered 1-2 dreams a year prior to dream journalling . Now it’s like 2-3 a month!!!
Erm. What I get from this is, that to become lucid in the dream, one must become lucid in waking life., which now that I think about it, is not only quite a tall order, but also a very sensible and useful thing to do for personal development. Which is why I’m looking into lucid dreaming in the first place.
@XgoogleX
That's incredible!
I can't even imagine what that would be like. I've been working on dream recall for about 2 years now. I'm doing all the things: journalling, waking up slowly, sleep hygiene.
I looked at my dream journal which starts in late January this year and there are 14 dreams recorded in it.
Do you have any advice beyond the standard advice?
You honestly deserve more views, man...
Sorry my English is so bad but i think we need to write our Dreams in Dream Journal bcs thats help to understand our brain how the Dreams feel and looks like :D
Thats my opinion
Edit: Wooa this is gamechanger or dreamchanger! Thanks Daniel 4this video, now i know how to use Dream Journal properly!!
We dream journal because without recording our dreams most of them will simply fade a few minutes after waking up and we could miss important opportunities to find situations where we could have lucid dreamed. And we can recognise patterns in our dreams and use them, just like we are hackers trying to hack a computer system. The dream journal is a bit like our code book.
It's interesting, I'd been recording emotions, but primarily which ones got me lucid instead of ones that didn't. I'll have to add that to the practice.
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Thank you so much, I remember a few days ago you answered one of my comments and said that you would upload on this very soon, I’ve been waiting for it!
And I absolutely trust you now because I had my first lucid dream this morning. Thank you for all your hard work and amazing videos 🫶🏻🩵
Amazing, well done! - I'm sure it's the first of many
2:59 because we need to remember out dreams
For a while I had been following some other lucid dreaming channels and only had some success. Then I found your channel and had way more lucid dreams. Thank you so much for the content! you have saved me so much time!
Thank you for your help I had a lucid dream yesterday night but it didn't feel real I could hear what was going in my surrounding in the real world please explain me what was that
I made dream journal for the sole reason - writing dreams down somehow immediately enchances quality of following dreams. Dunno how and why it works, it simply does
I think we use a dream journal to be able to know what we are dreaming about and what pattern our minds create in our dreams. Like for example I realised that dream journaling for me has helped me realise that in every dream I am with someone or more people and never alone. Other than that dream journaling is a great way to remember the dreams and analyze them. Another thing this amazing act that made me do is remembering my dreams a lot of times. If I suddenly stopped recording , I barely remember any dreams in the morning.
One of the best videos on the channel
I still struggle a bit with my journaling. I do write almost every single night, but I don't go back to it enough. It's been 3 months since I go through it to assess my new dream signs. Gotta up the work! Thanks Daniel
Hey Daniel! Long time listener/lurker. I have a question for you. There's a certain internet personality on the platform that provided his own tip on how to lucid dream. He's rather polarizing, so I won't name names, but the advice he gives is to try to remember the last thing you were thinking of before you fall asleep. He claims that it will train your brain to remember your dreams and then after about a week you'll just get lucid. I'm skeptical about it, and was wondering what you think about it.
Hey Fredsfreshbeats, firstly thank you for your very kind support, it means a lot to me!
So, technically no this won't work as it's a massive oversimplification of human psychology. He's essentially saying "in order to do this one difficult thing, do this even more difficult thing". Which when you look at it that way, it's clearly absurd.
That said, the act of attempting to focus on memory, especially by engaging prospective memory (remembering to do something in the future), could lead to lucidity for those who get the balance just right.
So, it's essentially an approach that could work in theory, but in practice would be nearly impossible for most people.
I know the person your talking about and they tend to have a bit of a habit of taking complex problems and offering very simplistic "solutions" in a confident tone - which is a great way to become popular, but is also pretty misleading.
I don't fall into the camp who has strong feelings about this person either way, other than them being a curious social phenomenon. So this isn't coming from a biased hater/fanboy mindset, just an observation.
In short, it's partially true, but missing a huge amount of real world complexity. It's a little like saying "to become a millionaire, all you need to do is to start a successful multinational company".
When it comes to lucid dreaming, trying any kind of mental focus can be beneficial, even if the principle is nonsensical, as there is a degree of suggestion and beginners luck for those new to the subject. But for regular lucidity, a more nuanced and broad ranging understanding of how one's mind works is needed.
Generally, if something sounds like a caricature of an solutionrather than a fleshed out concept founded on a logical system, it's rarely much more than the intellectual equivalent of clickbait.
I hope that helps.
I really appreciated this video. I will probably listen to it again. I believe dream journaling is important, and the right way to do it matters a lot. I use a voice recorder right away and later write it down. This was very helpful and to the point. Thanks
Great video! It is so true that what it is about is spotting the differences. Which makes me think of when I had a very easy time getting lucid dreams, because I was depressed and almost never went out of my home. I could just say "Okay so when I'm not in my home, I'm most likely dreaming" and a lot of my dreams were not taking place in my home. So VERY easy. I've just recently come back to lucid dreaming again, and oh does it feel harder now that my dreams and waking life looks more like each other.
Honestly your account has helped me so much!!! Thank you because I was dream journaling wrong!!!
In my opinion, we're dream journaling to analyse the common patterns which appears in regular dreams. In the future, maybe, you could recognize thiose patterns while you are dreaming and realize that you're sleep
I love this chanel daniel its helping me so much and i am getting closer to lucid dreaming every day🎉🎉
This video was EXTREMELY useful I have been dream journaling off and on for 4 months wrong and thank god you helped me. I would almost never even touch on what I was feeling or thinking and while my dream recall did get better and I have had some lucid dreams I have not gotten better at remembering my mindset or what I was thinking and this has also not allowed me to put reality checks at all and hopefully this can help me a ton , thanks
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My answer to why dream journal, (without listening to the rest of the video, though I should know this, having been following you a while...):
To recognize the character of my dreams, so I can become familiar with the tendencies they have, including "dream signs", which hopefully will remind me to do a test to determine if I am dreaming. Also, it can help me spot things in my dreams that have been inspired or "seeded" by recent events in my waking life, so that I hopefully will notice other such dream elements that have been triggered by recent waking events. Also, it reminds me to pay attention to my dreams, which seems to increase my recall of them.
I am probably forgetting something....
I will remind myself, when journalling, to focus more on the WHY (my motivations) and "WHO I am being" in my dreams.... and WHY the "WHO" I am being in them fails to lead to lucidity.
I'd guess it is also important to take note of "who/how I am being" when I DO achieve lucidity, so that I can try to reinforce the tendency to be those ways, yeah?
Thanks for this video!
I believe we dream journal to improve our remembrance of dreams
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Dream journaling is for getting acquainted with what your dreams look/feel like in order to have good understanding of how do they differ from reality.
Another lucid dream from me! Flew for the first time in my dream after remembering your skydiving video. Wow it was CRAZY! Then I lost lucidity from lack of focus and it became a normal dream. Still amazing!!
Amazing, well done! Seem like you're on fire with lucidity at the moment, keep up the good work!
Feeling lost. Hopeful. I understand, I joined a school and we journaled based on symbols, trying to interpret. I found it to be... too subjective and indirect.
I am the dreamer. I have learned how to wake up and influence. I have a part of my mind struggling, kicking and screaming right now. Why does it throw a fit? Even now, wanting to go on autopilot. Addicted to the comfort of easy, already familiar subjects. A fear of the unknown. Although this subject is one I am passionate about, the uncertainty of "newness" blossoms into red flags. If I face this fear will it subside like a storm fizzling out? I am watching anxiety and urges of resistance pour down, washing over me and dripping off like rain.
Afraid, afraid, afraid. Of what?
Deep breaths. Listen. Try. That's all required of you. So many expectations. So very tired. It's a journey, take one step it's alright. It's uncomfortable. I know you don't it. Picky, like being fed a new food with a strange texture. The inner voice says "I don't wanna", ready to cry. I think you'll like it. I promise it won't hurt you. Take a bite.
First time riding a bike. First time swimming in a pool.
I know the fear of trying. And I'm stronger. It's okay... one bite at a time.
I dream journal so that I'll be consciously aware when I'm dreaming
Jeez, i needed this. i was so confused about all the wacky techniques, methods, routines, and alarms- this just set it nice and simple. I have quite a busy schedule and don’t have time for all that nonsense. But anyways, let’s say i started dream journaling as you described, every day. Nothing else. How long would it take to have my first lucid dream?
Thank you so much for your kind support Russell, I massively appreciate it. If you're dream journaling and nothing else, it would take a fair bit of time for you to become entirely familiar with the differences between waking life and dreams - historically, people who have done this (and stayed focused and curious about their dreams), tend to take about a year and a half for lucidity to start to flow regularly or semi-regularly (of course, this depends greatly on the individual). To speed up the process considerably, find the differences as outlined in this video, then in your daytime hours, look for similar psychological/emotional states, and then use those as cues to ask "Am I dreaming?" (seriously, and with a genuine expectation that the answer really could be "yes") and perform a reality test, I'd recommend the nose pinch test. I hope that makes sense?
This form of dream journaling, done correctly, is the foundational practice for all meaningful lucid dream strategies, but it's always best to have multiple effective strategies acting in tandem - think of it like filling a bucket with water, if you use one tap, it'll take longer than using two.
Take a look around the channel and you'll find other advice that will help compliment what you're doing.
If you really want to stick with just journaling, just make sure that you're reading through your journal often, and becoming very familiar with the nature of your dream self, so that you are more likely to spot when you are in that state.
Ive been dream journaling for like 3 years now and i mostly i record what happened in the environment and obsessing every little detail and still getting like no results at all, and when it started to include my emotions, feelings how how i interact with the environment itself, but prioritizing about what i am in a dream i started to get more lucid dreams compared to the last couple of years, you did explained it very well and not to focus on the subjectivity of the dream and stop obsessing every little detail in the dream but actually include what are you in the dream, what emotions, feelings you have and how you interact with the environment itself, totally a new different approach to dream journaling, most people overcomplicate this enough, and hate to admit i am one this nerd who does like 10K words writing about external factors in the dream lmao.
Hey Daniel, usually lurk on the channel, but wanted to say great video. I've been DJing since 2013, and today I learned something new- the distinct difference that the "why" part of DJing makes. I usually journal the events and try to formulate why I did certain things, or acted a certain way, or thought something, etc., but I never looked at it the way you presented it in this video. This knowledge is invaluable, top-tier, and brilliant- thank you for putting great quality LDing content out into the world!
Thank you for coming out of lurking-land to say that! I genuinely appreciate the kind words, it's comments like this that inspire me. Stay lucid!
Thanks i really needed it
I used dream journal to improve my dream recall and also to know myself better in my dream.
Why do we dream journal: to increase recall, to recognize dream signs (occurrences or unusual objects), to have a written record of my dream experiences, to track repeating themes that are relevant, to recognize what triggers lucidity and how often I experience being lucid, and what I do once lucid.
Thank you for clarifying the point of view that will make the difference in lucidity.
Great video!!! I am going to start focusing on the why in my dream journal, and also I ordered a physical book as I was using an app. I am so committed to this process and am excited about the journey. Thank you for all your knowledge. This was probably one of the fastest subs I have ever done! Looking forward to watching your other videos and future content~
Amazing, thank you Gizmo, really appreciate your sub too. Good luck and stay lucid!
When you said dont leave the video after hearing the name I already tought "bro he is gonna say dream jornal" 😂. Honnestly I dream jornal because peoples said it help remember more details of the dreams and the dream signals (which is a interresing part of the book "exploring the world of lucid dream" but I still dont aply on my jorney 💀
Oh man, I am very thankful, for this video, but I really wish, that you would have made this earlier. Now I am kind of happy, that I was lazy with dream journaling before, because I did it completely wrong, so it would have been a waste of time and energy. Now I can start again with the correct approach.
we dream journal to improve our skill to recall dreams
that will make us familiar with dreams therefore increase chnaces of lucid dream 2:59
Thanks for sharing I would try!
Boosting and leaving a quick comment because I was preparing for crabbing in an area with no reception when this came out!
i dream journal to remember my dreams and visualise them later
Well, I won't take to the comments and groan about how I hate dream journaling (even though I think my past comments on the subject are telling about how much I dislike doing it), but I will explain what keeps me from doing it. How I've previously dream journaled is through long descriptions of the environment, small details that didn't matter, and feeling like I had to write in a certain tense. What also doesn't help with that is how analytical I can be, often diving into numbers and certain patterns way to much to a degree where I will start collecting data on things that don't matter. While my journaling starts with these sentences that I'm motivated to write, halfway through it becomes a list of what happened with no data because I'm tried of over-thinking and writing down every little thing. Probably a flaw of being a perfectionist but I digress.
That's what has kept me from dream journaling where there's so much that I feel like I have to do where it feels clinical and not something of my own. I honestly didn't know how much I would need this video because there's so much I can throw out - so much that I was doing that stopped progress that didn't matter. I don't need to talk about how the produce section was switched the dairy section of a store I was passing by in a dream - I can just say that it was distorted and possible write how it was distorted later if it was still bugging me. Easier said than done as I struggle to even journal a day, but I'll start by recording a dream from last night in a journal after I eat something and finish writing this.
I would also like to add that not even journaling in the slightest does cut down on dream recall. Me and my friend often talk about our dreams in the morning but lately we haven't been doing that. My recall has dropped significantly. Hopefully dream journaling will bring it back up!
Thanks for the awesome video! I'll have to give it a rewatch as I was very scatter-brained with anxiety trying to watch it as soon as I got home. I do also want to say that the Cosmøtron tattoo looks awesome!
U r the best teacher
Dankeschön from Vienna 💕
I do it because its like a story every night and i don't have the time to watch movies anymore so it kinda helps replace them
I dont have a voice recorder but i can come back to the dreamjournal and write it again but with the perspective of a lucid dreaming. i can add some details or some extra sketches. without my drawins in my journal i never remembered what the dream was all about because my handwriting sucks. maybe its time to buy a recorder but then again, i think it would lose me much of my time so i rather stick to fysical dreamjournal but when i am wide awake i can come back and add some details in the dream. and also that way i'm more alert in other dreams hopefully. also, when i have certain days like the past four days that i cant recall any dreams or they are very vague i can always think of the thoughts or emotions from the scenes i did written down. thanks for this helpfull video.
Master this master the universe!
Thank you!
Good vid thanks
We dream journal to remember our dreams
yayy ive been so excited for this video!! I actually love dream jounaling lol. my guess on why we do it is to train our mind that dreams are important?
Another tip if you can along with writing also draw the dream as pictures speak WAY more than words in fact you would watch this picture related video if it was only words so draw as well
To remember dreams better
I really needed this video, because I've always been confused when it came to what I should write down. Thank you.
I dream journal to remember my dreams and see patterns
Thank you!!
I already have 6 dreams written down
to rember our dreams
Great video. I’ve kept my journal going to increase my dream recall and to keep my general awareness active in general and I believe it’s helped me become lucid along the way.
Friends of mine ask me why I don’t try to interpret my dreams when I have so much information.
To be clear I have wanted more out of my dreams and wanted to ask big questions when I am lucid in a dream. Perhaps asking the same questions in the dream world might render an affirming answer. However I think what you offer here is a simple yet perfect way to be more assertive in finding out important things about our selves without digging up the backyard. It’s fun to go on treasure hunts but I think this technique could provide some good results. My journal writing now will include this question of why- Who am I in the dream? Thanks!
Why do we dream journal? To recognize patterns within our dreams that we could later use to sense we are dreaming.
Daniel, would you have any explanation as to why I haven't slept in an entire day and took a two hour nap and I feel full of energy? I'm very concerned.
To answer: "Why do I Dream Journal as a lucid dreamer?"
To find the reason to why I am a Mango colored fish.
Anyways, thanks for this helpful video! I will try to find and create my own map to me in my dreamworld!
Mangofish, thank.yoi for being brilliant. Your support is basically the main reason this video was made, so you're an absolute mango coloured star!
Thank you for this video I never heard it explained this way I was doing it the wrong way. I'm going to start over and it the way you said to Thank you
For remember dreams
I was SO CLOSE to reality checking in the dream. Someone I was thinking about appeared behind me and I was about to do one but I didnt and instead I just started talking to them like normal.
The dreamsigns and reality checks can make me have a lucid dream without the need of wake up?
Yes, the point of regained awareness dreams (DILDs) is to become lucid during a dream, no need to wake up.
Very interesting
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Idk how I'm supposed to remember how I was feeling in my dream when I can hardly remember what im doing in my dreams anyways.. I have to write it down within seconds of waking up otherwise I will forget my dream. The memory of it slips away as I'm writing it down so remembering how I felt is even harder..
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Amazing, thank you! (you probably know my videos better than I do! :P ) - seriously though, I really appreciate it.
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@@c.draumr That’s a very good way to put it!
Initially I started dream journaling for lucid dreaming but it slowly turned into interpretation with the app thatI use😅
Yeah using apps is a pretty terrible idea, they tend to be focused on the wrong things, the brain doesn't process the information well, and you outsource the important skills for lucid dreaming to a device - when you should be developing those skills yourself.
@@LucidDreamPortal you know its funny, in story writing the key to writing an interesting story is for events to be causally connected.
For example, "The King died and then the Queen died" is more boring compared to "The King died therefore the Queen died of grief".
Basically the same thing you said, the "Whys" are more important than the details alone in a story.
Will I ever be able to lucid dream well, we'll see
What does one do if you don't recall the dreams? Do any of you have periods of time like this? Any idea what might cause this?
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Hey! I've been wanting to write down my dreams like this for a while but most of the times I don't remember or know why I made certain decisions or how I felt. I struggle with recalling my own emotions, feelings and thought process in my dreams. Any tips on that?
Can you help me? I have been trying to lucid dream for about 5 days now i have been remembering my dreams but not constantly on day i remember 3 dreams with a lot of detail the other day i remember 1 with little to no detail. Is this normal? And what technique do you have for some on who struggles to sleep fast .
A question that I have about this "for look your dreams in the future" I maybe already had heard you saying about not just have your dream jornal to write dreams in it but also read daily what you write when you have a time? If you could answer it would be helpful
You want to do anything you can to become more familiar with your dreaming mind. And your dream journal is the most direct window you have into that. So reading your dream journal and assessing it is the best way to do so.
How about the dreams that are like a movie when your watching people do stuff and your not really there just watching like a ghost or someone invisible and you really don't feel anything how do you write down who you are in dreams like that.Sorry if this is a stupid question I'm still new to this
Good to know I've already been doing this, well, when I can, like going to a store in my dream is not for a reason like "I need x thing", I'm just going, but the feelings there I say because they exist
I honestly just have no idea what to write though
Because usually when I'm waking up, I stay in bed very tired for a bit, and I'm not actually sure if I was asleep or not, because I can have multiple "dreams" in that period, which are all very short and strange and I become aware that I _am_ awake during
What do you do if who I am in the dreams acts exactly like who I am in waking life?
When I recall and record my dreams, I notice that the way I act in the dream is exactly how I'd act now (minus realizing how absurd the situation is).
That would suggest that perhaps waking life is also spent lost in thought and autopilot. You are not looking for anything extreme, just the recurring thought patterns and distractions.
@@LucidDreamPortalI've been spending my recent days trying to spot abnormalities by analyzing why I am where I am and how my current possessions came to be my possession.
But, that questioning hasn't transferred it's way into my dreams.
You won't build a habit in a couple of days. A couple of weeks would be the absolute minimum