Dream Journaling

Consider keeping a dream journal at your bedside. This is a fun and profound way to get insights into your psyche and life that otherwise most often remain out of reach to each of us.

In the morning when you awake, immediately write in your dream journal. Don’t think about the dream in mind, just write anything about it, everything that comes to mind, in your journal. Then, set the journal down and be done with it for now.

Letting the entire dream go from mind altogether is key to extracting insight and guidance from dreams. Often, when we wake up with the remnant of a dream still in mind, there is a certain “emotional baggage” attached to the memory of the dream which tends to cloud our thinking.

Later in the day, perhaps in the afternoon, when you’ve completely forgotten about the dream, and emotion around it, and even what you wrote down earlier in the morning…go back to you dream journal.

It is most ideal to approach the dream journal, when you go back to read it, with a high vibration, unattached to whatever you wrote down.

When you go back and read what you wrote down, contemplate it lightly by preposing that it is guidance for ‘you’ from the “higher” self.

The dream journal is very much like taking a flight for a vacation. Imagine going to the airport and checking in your “baggage”, and then getting off the plain and again picking up your
“baggage”. Dreams tend to reveal the very “baggage” we went to bed with, and ‘picked up’ again the next morning.

If you can imagine sleep as being a perfect peace, and though there is no memory of actually sleeping, imagine that sleep is made of infinite intelligence, which loves you fully, wholly, completely, and unconditionally, and is offering guidance for you - but infinite intelligence which can not use language or meaning, and thus uses feeling and imagery. If you’re been looking to connect with intuition more deeply and allow the magic of experience to shine, this is a wonder-full opportunity.

Also imagine, as you go back and read what you wrote down in your dream journal, that the over arching theme of the message is “you can let that go”…“you don’t need to worry about that, or carry this baggage any longer”. Look for images, people, etc, from your dream, which are aligned with this message, supporting this sentiment, and attempting to relay this to you. Some would say this is a seeing of angels in heaven.

Overall, the ideal scenario would be to write the dream down as soon as you wake up, and then to forget any emotion associated with the dream. Then, later in the day, to read the content you wrote down, from the unfettered emotional ‘place’ of having forgotten what you wrote down. This way, you can see the content more for what it is, rather than ‘through the lens’ of the emotion that seemed related to the dream when you woke up.