Journaling dreams can be cathartic."A dream is a wish your heart makes." Journaling dreams is by far one of the best ways to cue up some much needed inspiration. It is one specific way to make one of your wishes come true -- namely, to be a writer. Chances are, if you're reading this, you've set out on the path to becoming a writer with a sense of purpose and motivation. You want to write what engages you and learn about what perplexes you in order to make your writing all that much more unique and creative. Journaling dreams is one way to come up with ideas that are fertile ground for successful writing ideas. How do you shape these dreams into writing that others will understand and want to read? Read on to find some motivating ideas to get you started on journaling dreams and becoming one of the great dream writers. Click for Free Writer's Block Help E-Zine and Free E-Book Journaling dreams can also be enlightening, entertaining, expressive, emotive, and enjoyable. There are so many interesting, clear and unclear, creative, and intuitive ideas that come to fruition in dreams. You must know how to harness the ones you have. Keeping a dream journal is one such way to do this. Dream journaling is a simple way to come up with ideas that are more than likely unique to you and your subconscious. All you have to do to get started with this is to write down what happened in your dreams. Some people choose to keep a pad of paper next to them while they're sleeping so that if they wake up in the middle of the night, they can write down whatever they so happen to be thinking in that moment. After all, I'm sure it has happened to all of us at some point or another. You have a really vivid dream in the middle of the night, wake up to go to the bathroom, or get scared awake by the nightmarish quality your dream possesses, and you don't write it down. By the time you wake up in the morning, you know something happened in the middle of the night because of your dream, but can't recollect just what it was. This is where dream journaling comes in handy. Write down all that you remember. Take the opposing side as well. Many, if not all of us, have also had those dreams that we wake up in the middle of, and desperately desire to get back to. We want to return to that moment in our dream when we were about to do something amazing and exciting. It's always something that we feel we can never accomplish or have happen in real life, so our only chance is to go back to that dream and have it play itself out to satisfy our subconscious desire for whatever the dream happens to be about. Write this down. Write everything down. Whether you use any of it or not is up to you entirely. At least you'll have the option when it comes time to choose a new topic to write about. Wouldn't you rather have a list of ideas instead of having to delve into the depths of your memory to recall something that never truly happened, but you only dreamed about? It's quite a hard task to accomplish, if I do say so myself. Read below for a few of my most vivid dream recollections, and see how journaling dreams helps add to my flare for writing:
You see how dreams can be about anything, from friends, to celebrities, to experiences we've lived through. Sometimes they have to do with things we've never experienced, and we wonder how the idea popped into our head. I don't know about you, but when this happens to me, I can't help but wonder what I must have been thinking about, considering, or doing that brought on a dream such as that. I feel as though my dreams have to have purpose behind them. Whether that purpose is something that you can pinpoint right away or not is truly up to you. The purpose a dream serves may purely be to spark your writing and get you journaling dreams until you are writing something more. Make sure that when you are journaling dreams, you are focusing on all the details. No matter how big or small, everything is important, because you never know just how much information you may want to include in another piece of writing. Become one of the great dream writers. Find ways to make your dreams into realities, at least as far as the basis for a story, poem, or creative writing style you are creating for yourself. Journaling dreams may be the starting point for your next great idea. If it really works for you, you may just find yourself asking other people about their dreams. Or you may find that something you see, hear, or do in the days following your dream will bring back more memories that you can keep in your dream journal. The possibilities are endless. See where your dreams take you.
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