Keeping a dream journal

Dear Beloved,

So, you have heard so many people talk about journaling and you have decided to start journaling yourself. For many, journaling is very therapeutic and it helps makes sense of what is going on around them. Others prefer to record their actions, activities and responses to things for the day and you get some people that vent all their emotions in their journals.

This article is about keeping a dream journal and why I find it important.

Some people may find that they have really vivid dreams that they want to remember and keeping a dream journal is a wonderful way to remember your dreams. Some people receive Divine messages in their dreams, others intuitive messages and some people have prophetic dreams. Keeping a dream journal allows you to go back to the dream and look at it again.

Not to long ago, I had situation where I had had a very prophetic dream to me personally. In all honesty I thought all kinds of highfalutin ideas about what it could mean. Sometimes the dreams can be very straight forward and other times very cryptic. When the situation unfolded, I forgot about the dream. I spent weeks in turmoil and emotional distress. After some weeks as I sat in meditation, I felt a reminder to relook at my dream journal and in mother's favorite words, 'lo and behold', there was the 'knowing'. After which, I found understanding and acceptance.

Keeping a dream journal will help you differentiate between prophetic and nonsense dreams and yes we do sometimes have nonsense dreams. I feel that when you are recording your dreams, that it is a good idea to take note of your emotional state during the day, including and up to the point that you actually went to sleep. This way you can understand yourself better and the dreams better.

Please feel free to post any comments or give us your personal feedback.

Love to you,

Meenakshi