Do you keep a Dream Book???

@callybop (149)
February 25, 2007 6:28pm CST
Not a book about dreams that you can buy... a journal of your dreams. I keep meaning to start one and keep it by my bed so I can write in it as soon as I wake up, because I seem to forget them unless I talk to someone in depth about it while its still in my head. The dreams I've had over the years would be great to read back now... I guess I should start one... do any of you guys keep one? :D
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@ElicBxn (63235)
• United States
26 Feb 07
Heck, I get up so late I don't have time to do much besides get ready in the mornings - write in a journal HA! Besides, I don't remember most of my dreams, I was in a bad car wreck in 1972 & really haven't remembered too many since then. Maybe a couple a month at best, sometimes I'll go months without remembering any.
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@ElicBxn (63235)
• United States
26 Feb 07
other than seeming to be the start of my fibromyalgia, a residual lump on my forehead (not really visiable) and not remember most of my dreams, not much. I did mostly flunk that semester of college tho.
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@callybop (149)
26 Feb 07
oh dear :( I'm glad you weren't hurt terribly... and I hope you don't suffer too badly with your fibromyalgia!
@callybop (149)
26 Feb 07
Thats another point to it, I always have a million other things I need to do on my mind when I get up. sorry to hear about your car crash :( I hope it hasn't affected you in other ways :(
26 Feb 07
Yes. They can be so interesting to look back on and sometimes make for good stories. I used to keep a dictophone next to the bed because it's a quicker way to record dreams before you forget them, but I was too self-conscious with it to carry on using it!
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@callybop (149)
26 Feb 07
the dictaphone is a great idea too... how do you mean self conscious? :)
26 Feb 07
It's daft, but I felt uncomfortable hearing my own voice on tape!
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@callybop (149)
26 Feb 07
haha nah its not daft... I hate the sound of my voice recorded too... and I always think, "I don't sound like that do I?"
@nicky35 (747)
27 Feb 07
i know,i keep meaning to do that.ive had some really scarey and some really interesting ones but bt 10am theyve gone forever.ive woken up to let the cat out or for the kids in the middle of a great dream and jumped back into bed willing myself to go back to sleep at the point of the dream where i woke up!
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@callybop (149)
27 Feb 07
Yeah I keep forgetting too! I had another mad dream last nigth and woke up, got out of bed and it didn't even cross my mind to write it down!! :D
@Sissygrl (10912)
• Canada
27 Feb 07
I've been meaning to keep one of those too, but i always forget. I have written a few in diaries that i have had when i was young, but i have no idea where those got to now. I wonder why that is that dreams dont stick with you unless you say them outloud or write them down..
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@callybop (149)
27 Feb 07
Yeah, its like talking about it or writing it down somehow affirms it and commits it to your memory. I still remember dreams from about 10 years ago that I spoke in depth about at the time because they were so weird! :D
@scribe1 (1203)
• United States
26 Feb 07
I've been meaning to, because I've had some really nutty dreams lately and been meaning to record them in a journal. However, I've kept putting it off. For some reason, I remember vivid dreams, such as the one of my deceased dad handing me a packet whose wrapping was covered with smiley-faces. Another vivid dream was about my finding rolls of hundred and fifty-dollar bills all over the street and madly racing to pick them up. I rarely dream about my parents or money anyway, which is why those particular dreams will never be forgotten.
@callybop (149)
26 Feb 07
Yeah you should definitely start one. Some vivid dreams there! Dreams are so fascinating, it'd be nice to have something so personal as a dream book :)
• Philippines
26 Feb 07
Oh my! what's happening to my grammar. Sorry, it's not ATE, but the number 8..lol
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@callybop (149)
26 Feb 07
haha its ok I do that all the time online :D that book sounds fantastic, its a shame you don't have it anymore.... but never too late to begin a sequel ;)
• Philippines
26 Feb 07
I had a dream book when I was ate. But sad to say that I don't have it now. Good for you that you have still kept it. Wish I have kept it too. I could still remember my drawings. Seems they are still fresh from my mind. lol. In every drawing that i make,there's always a caption at the bottom on why this is my part of my dream thing. I remember the title of that book is Me and my future.
@JackBravo (970)
• United States
26 Feb 07
You know, I thought about doing that once because I read in a book that if you do that sort of thing, then you're able to start to control your dreams. I remember one dream where I felt like I was dreaming, and I tried to tell my brain to plant a tree in front of me in the dream to see if i could control. Then all the people in the dream started runnning after, and I woke up. Haven't tried it since. :)
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@callybop (149)
26 Feb 07
haha... did you offend them with your tree growing?:) I've heard a few people mention they can do this... control their dreams however they want. I've also been told by one person that most the dreams they have run like a film... to the extent with the credits rolling up at the end!! Maybe he was an avid film fan :D