How Well Do You Remember Your Dreams?
If you’re serious about dream prophesy, dream analysis, dream interpretation, and really getting to the heart of what your dreams mean, you’ll need your dream recall to be on the absolute TOP of its game!
- How well do you remember your dreams?
- Do you remember your emotions and feelings during your dreams?
- Do you recognize most of the people in your dreams?
- In the morning, can you recall at least one of your dreams?
- Do you recall the various “symbols” in your dreams?
If you feel that your dream recall needs a little work, I have the perfect solution: A Dream Journal. While you don’t absolutely have to run out and buy a new notebook or journal to serve as your Dream Journal – it would be a cool idea. You could use any notebook you have around the house, of course, but the more “special” you make the entire experience, the better.
Even if you simply go to one of those amazing stores where everything is $1 and buy a notebook in your favorite color – you’re making a point of taking the entire enterprise seriously, and that’s what’s important. My first Dream Journal was actually a wire notebook with colorful Lisa Frank dolphins on the front. Seemed appropriate enough!
Here’s another idea that adds to the adventure. Find a pocket folder (for mere pennies) to keep with your dream journal. I’ll tell you what it’s for in just a minute!
Get Started With Your Dream Journal
Once you have your dream journal, go ahead and enter a recent dream. Include the people who were in the dream, what you were doing in the dream (what you hoped to accomplish or were trying to avoid), the symbols (knives, snakes, balloons, candles, fire, clouds – anything that stands out) in the dream, and most importantly – HOW YOU FELT DURING THE DREAM. Also, list any and all colors that you remember. List only the top 3 colors you remember – 4 at the most. Oddly enough, this is very important!
A typical journal entry might look something like this:
I was driving an old beaten up red pick up truck. My beloved basset hound, Honey, was in the passenger’s seat. We were in a huge hurry to get somewhere and Honey could talk. In fact, she talked practially the whole time. Her collar, instead of being her normal hot pink one was white. I couldn’t make sense of that in my dream – though her talking didn’t shock me. I was confused as to why the collar changed colors.
We were in a huge hurry and I was driving really fast. We were on dirt roads and passed by a lot of farm houses and brown horses. At some point, my cat Lanie joined us and could also talk. He wasn’t in a hurry and wanted us to slow down and get something to eat. Then I woke up. Hungry.
Main Colors: Red, white, brown
Emotions: Rushed, confused, anxious, hungry!
The above dream is actually one of the first ones I ever recorded in a dream journal. This is actually the VERY dream that began my study of and fascination with dreams. When I was thinking about this dream the next day at school (instead of listening to my Algebra teacher!), I realized that, underneath it all, I was feeling many of the same feelings in my real life as I did in my dream. By the time the class was over, a lifelong fascination with dreams and heartfelt belief in the importance of their interpretations had taken hold.
Be sure that you enter your “feelings” as accurately as possible. Here are a few suggestions: joyful, sad, anxious, worried, depressed, helpless, surprised, ashamed, agitated, frustrated, curious, confused, powerful, unloved, ignored, furious, hopeful, optimistic, sexy, ugly, brave, etc. Even if the emotions seem to have NOTHING to do with one another, write them down.
Remember the Folder?!
This exercise adds even more fun to your dream recall and analysis. Cut out or draw/color pictures that symbolize your dream. If you have room in your dream journal to tape (or draw) them onto the pages, do so. If not, clip the images together with a paper clip, then add a little piece of paper with the date of the dream.
Having visuals of the colors and symbols can really help put you in touch with your inner feelings and emotions.
I have many more articles and exercises planned to add to the site that deal with Dream Journals and Dream Recall – with plenty more about images and, even, collages. So, please grab an rss feed and/or sign up for e-mail updates, so you’ll know what’s been added as soon as it’s here for you. I just wish I could open up my notebooks (and brain!) and pour everything out at once. Kind of impossible, though, so I’ll just take it steady.
I’m actually working on a downloadable Dream Journal template for the site, color charts, and a visual guide to dream symbols. So much to do!
Have a glorious weekend – if you need me, I’ll be right here, typing, thinking, and tweaking away with coffee and chocolate fueling me along.
A Few of the Best Dream Journals We’ve Found:
Adventures in Wonderland Dream Journal
Dream Time Journal
The Dreams II Fabric Poster at the top of the post can be bought at
AllPosters.com!
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I wanted to ask you about 2 dreams that 2 different friends had. (All 3 of us are teachers and are Christians) Dream #1: My teacher friend dreamt that she was wrapped in bandages like a mummy, but she was walking and she felt like her spirit had to make peace before she left the earth. She finds me, 3 other close teacher friends, and her daughter in steady, flowing water. She speaks to her daughter (although we cannot see her) and asks, “What happened to me?” Her daughter tells her that was an explosion on a school bus and she died trying to save students. She touches each of our hands. When she touches my hand, I faint. She then finds herself walking down a school hall (different from the school in which we teach) with one of the teacher friends who was in the water with us. The teacher doesn’t know she’s there. They then appear in the friends’ office (who is not in some type of administrative position) and appears to be pregnant. She begins typing on the computer in big, bold letters: THIS IS SANDRA. DO NOT BE AFRAID. The teacher friend isn’t afraid. The dream ends.
Dream #2: Another teacher friend of mine dreamt that she and I were looking another colleague who had a snake crawling all over her classroom walls. The teacher doesn’t seem to mind the snake being there. The snake then crawls on her back and all around her body. The snake crawls up near her neck and jumps out at my friend. The dream ends.
If you can tell me what either of these dreams may mean, I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks
Always beautiful to hear from other Christians! I am using your dream request in a post I’m writing right this minute – so it’ll appear on the blog within 30 minutes. Thanks for submitting your dream(s) – please watch for your interpretation!
I have had dreams the past few days about my teacher what does it mean it kind of bothers me because one dream we kiss it’s really messed up I’m 13 and she’s a she not he and atleast in her 30s please tell me what it’s trying to tell me
Most all of the dreams I have are in color and I can usually remember every detail, I suppose, depending on their importance. One dream I had about 15 years ago now at least, was in total black and white. I have no clue why except I think of the past a lot, and I like old things. They seem to have more personality with me. Anyway, this was a snake dream that I had.
I do keep a dream journal and try to include every fine detail I can remember, and I do write down what I was thinking, and my feelings and emotions at that moment as well. I have also begun setting up my video camera, and telling some of my dreams on video. I suppose I do this to have a video log of them. I put some of them on youtube and facebook too. I don’t know why I do this except perhaps to try to get others involved and maybe get to hear some other great dream stories out there. I love dreaming and I love listening to other people’s dreams.
Hello, my name is Faith and I am 14 years (young). I have been checking out your website and I am finding “dream analysis”, “dream prophesis”, and all of this VERY interesting! I would greatly appreciate it if you would tell me what a few of my dreams mean that I can still remember that I’ve had in the bast five years.
Dream #1: (I had this dream when I was at least 10-11 somewhere in there and I have no clue what it means) I’ll try to remember it the best that I possibly can;;
My older sister Noel (who is now 15) used to have a pink shirt that I had always admired and I wanted it and knowing that I had an older sister (hand-me-downs) I knew I was going to get it eventually and I did. Anyways, In this dream… I was in a big city, in a darker part of town. (I lived in Illinois when I was younger so I think that this is why it was in aa big city in a darker part of town [because of gangs]) … As I was saying, I was in a big city, in a darker part of town…where there were gangs and such but at the time that I was there, there were none. I was walking around..wearing the pretty pink shirt that my sister gave me and I found this boy. He was somewhere close to 15 and he looked like the type of guy that was “bad”. He was the skateborder type and he had long hair. Anyways, I saw him and somehow we started talking. I ended up telling him, a few hours later that I had to go home and I told him that I would come see him tomorrow around the same houur. So, the next day, I walked to the same dark part of the city and we talked again and he ended up kissing me on the lips. {The dream then, shortly ended}
The next day at school, all I could think about was the guy in my dreams…. it was like I was in love with him. I knew that he wasn’t real but I would always daydream in class about him and wonder if this guy was actually out there. That night when I was laying in bed;; all I was hoping was that I could see him again in my dreams… I would get so excited to go to bed because every night, I was hoping that I would have the chance to see him again. I thought about my dream over and over and actually named this guy. I think I called him Chris… I told all of my friends about this dream and this “Chris” guy.
I have had a few other dreams like this since then but they were in a totally different setting and they were not of that guy. I would like to know, is it possible to fall in love with some one in your dreams that you know is not realistic?