remember my dreams

Ok, I’ve been terrible about keeping up a dream journal. But I’m starting up “The Artist’s Way” and so I’ll be doing morning pages daily … I believe these will have a dual function.

I need to get better at dream recall, but using the mugwort has definitely intensified my dreaming! Best results were had by making a little sachet filled with the dry herb and sleeping with it under the pillow. As a goodbye gift I received a jar of fresh mugwort which I look forward to experimenting with.

This herb is used for a number of things, including intensifying dreams. It can be consumed, but need not be. The method I’ve heard about most often simply involves seeping with an open jar of mugwort nearby. Now to find some …..

I dreamed last night that I helped to kill someone. We hid the girl’s body at the bottom of a pool and then realized that wouldn’t work so we stuffed her in a big backpack and walked away with her. The whole time I knew we would be caught. I woke up thinking, “I can’t believe I dreamed myself in such a role!”

I’ve let my dream journal habit slip, and my dream recollection is noticeably suffering for it. If there isn’t anything more than fragments of dreams left when I wake up I don’t usually bother writing them down, but that’s dumb – patiently writing down fragments will almost always lead to more complete recollection after a day or two.
Last night’s fragment: I saw a marmot on a rock in a place where I wouldn’t expect to see one and I pointed it out to my friend: “see, that’s what a marmot looks like”.

i was recently told of an herb that one can consume or even just sleep in the proximity of that will intensify dreams. unfortunately i’ve forgotten the herb’s name. shouldn’t be too hard to refindout.

i wouldn’t have even remembered the herb thing except that i was just now told something similar about a stone – i was told that a bit of obsidian under the pillow will intensify dreams.

i tend to give placebo more credit than herbs or rocks, but i don’t feel any need to be scientific with things like this. if it works, it works.

I’ve known forever that I should keep a dream journal to help me to remember my dreams and to be able to do useful things with my dreams afterwards. But I’ve always been to lazy so early in the morning, so by the time my brain is functioning at a normal pace and I’m ready to pick up pen and paper I can’t remember my dream experiences.
For the past week or so I’ve been writing my dreams every morning, sometimes waking in the night and writing them then. And it’s working marvelously!! I’m remembering many dreams, with lots of detail, sometimes pages and pages! At this rate I’ll be LUCID DREAMING soon, fingers crossed!

I’ve borrowed a book from a friend that is a guideline for achieving lucid dreams. I was reading it two days ago and it said that folks generally wake up 15 times per night between sleep cycles, right after fnishing a dream. In this moment you can remember your dream, but people generally just go back to snoozing and forget their dream or that they even woke up. But for the past two nights since reading about this I’ve been aware of waking up several times (though not 15) during the night and I could remember what I had just dreamed very clearly. However I have not been writing down my dreams throughout the night, so by the morning I can remember only that I did dream and that I woke and thought about the dream for a moment – not the dream itself. Time to go on to step 2 … dream journal.

I dreamed last night that I was with my childhood friend H and she was going to her place of employment late at night to pick up a package she had forgotten there. She knew her boss would be upset for her going there so late at night, so we were sneaking. As the door closed behind us I saw someone walking toward us so I told H and she got very nervous. “It´s my boss! What will I tell her!?” She quickly tried to come up with some excuses as to why we were there, but I insisted that she just tell the truth. When the boss walked in I was not nervous in the face of authority and our questionable presence there (as I would usually be in a dream and as I would often be in reality); instead I confidently introduced myself and plainly explained why we were there at that time. We didn´t get into any trouble.

Last nights dreams had me feeling down. I had to wake up and remind myself not to worry about such things.

I dreamed that I overheard a friend who I care for speaking about me. He was saying things like, “She´s always doing _” and trying to hide to avoid me with his other friends. I was hurt. I felt like a child who had been told she is bad. It didn´t occur to me to be angry or to question if there was any truth to his words.

When I woke up I reminded myself that even if I do always do _, it´s a sign of his immaturity that he was avoiding me and talking about me secretively rather than bringing up his issue with me directly.