what's up guys today is a question about dream Diaries and this is quite an important question
I really thought I'd make this video quickly for you today because the question is one that I think
a lot of you can relate to this is a question that I think I get emailed quite a lot about and it's
really one that I haven't made a video about yet so the question is this I have been remembering my
dreams without writing them down the dream diary do I need to keep a dream diary in order to lucid
dream do I need to keep like my dreams down in the morning if I remember them why bother writing them
in their dream diary it's a great question really good gracefully so to answer this I'm gonna sort
of explain a little bit about how the brain works and how dream we call works and how that relates
to lucid dreaming and then I'm gonna explain what I would suggest you should do depending on what
lovely around so let's get right into it a dream diary is great for improving your dream recall
depth you're gonna remember much more dreams if you get into the habit of writing down in a diary
that's one of the reasons that you normally start a dream diary when you learn to lucid
dream the other reason is that you can identify what's known as dream signs these are recurring
things that happen in multiple dreams and you can look back and you can say oh in that dream I was
doing so-and-so and I was also doing that in this dream that I've just had most recently and you can
sort of relate these ideas together and that is the important thing with lucid dreaming because
you can identify which things are important which things maybe aren't so important and which things
you could use to trigger your lucidity in the future so to answer your question in a short way
you don't need to keep a dream diary in all this a lucid dream you can very easily have a lucid dream
without writing your dreams down at all however for most people okay when you first get started
writing your dreams down is the most important thing okay because the majority of people the
vast majority of people don't remember their dreams or at least they don't remember them in
enough detail when they start to lucid dream or when they start to try learn how to lucid dream
and that's the first hurdle really you just got to remember your normal dreams and then from that
you can build on that skill and you can start to introduce reality checks into a day you can start
to do the others techniques and it will all sort of help and build on each other these ideas will
build on each other and make it easier as time goes on so if you were a beginner and you are
not remembering any dreams absolutely you need to write down it your dreams in a dream diary every
more absolutely no question about that if you've experienced a lucid dream but you don't have them
often and you don't remember your dreams as much as you maybe want to then again still keep writing
them your dough okay if you are an experienced lucid dreamer and either that or you can remember
your normal dreams without having to write them down then I would still suggest that you write
them in diary and I'm going to explain why in a second okay and then again the last situation is
if you are an experienced lucid dreamer and you're able to lucid dream at will more or less whenever
you want and you can remember your lucid dreams then again I would still recommend you write them
down but it's not essential okay you don't need to it's a nice thing to do because you know you can
look back on them you can identify dream signs and yeah so the main reason why I think almost
everyone should write their dreams down really regardless of riff if you can loose a dream or
not is first thing if you're beginner the dream recall needs to be built as a skill and the only
way of doing that really is to start practicing dream record practicing record recording your
dreams if you can already remember your dreams the reason that I think you should keep a dream
diary still is because you can look back and identify dream signs and I know it sounds like
I'm repeating myself that's because I am it's quite an important thing to go over these dream
signs you can use to become lucid in the future so for example let's say you notice something in
a dream like a dog or a certain color or place that is always there you can then say right you
can say to yourself well go to sleep next time I dream when I dream about my dream sign but
whether it's a dog or a place or whatever it is I will recognize that I'm dreaming and then
in the future when you dream about this thing you have a better chance of becoming lucid and that's
that's a great thing to have really so yeah I would recommend that regardless of what stage
you're at I would really say write things in your dream diary and not only that even if you
can remember your dreams flawlessly you can write in your dream diary things like which
technique we use to become a lizard how you felt in the lucid dream what what goals you have set
for yourself if you're on the advanced level of setting of lucid goals did you reach them what
was difficult what got it away and you can really start to work on these things at a deeper level
if you have them in recorded format like a diary and it doesn't have to be a paper diary it can
be a note on your phone it could be a document on your laptop it could be anything I just say diary
because it's the easiest way to for me at least as the easiest way to just write something cooked
it down when you wake up it's next to my bed I just got a pen write the dreams down it doesn't
take long and it's a very good habit to build it's one of the key building blocks of lucid dreaming
and learning how to advance in lucid dreaming so hope you enjoy this video if you haven't already
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