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Reviewing Last Year’s Dreams

1/1/2016

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​We’re at the threshold of another year! Our planetary spaceship has once again successfully circumnavigated its way 584 million miles (940 million km) around the pulsing Sun. Wow, what an achievement! For those of you who already keep a dream journal. This is an excellent time to look back at last year’s dreaming landscape. As the Earth whisked through outer space, what transpired in your inner space? What were your big dreams of the previous year? Which dreams touched you the most? Which were the most imaginative, fun?  Which ones shook you up? As you plough back through them, take a moment to look for patterns and themes. Simple categorization can be very useful too. I often ask myself, “what aspect of life was this dream focusing on?” and jot down or color code them by category such as “relationship” “finance” “health” “lucid” “emotional development” “sensual” "psychic" "spiritual"etc. 
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Also giving each dream a title is another excellent way to tap into the essence of the dream…sometimes it’s easy; sometimes it’s not. When it’s not, we have to sink into the dream a little deeper. Keep pouring over it until some caption organizes itself around a key symbol, event or feeling in the dream…have fun with it! A simple exercise like this can be a great way to stoke the contents of our unconscious and increase motivation level for dream recall as well as providing valuable insights for the upcoming year…

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niteflight
1/4/2016 11:46:15 am

i find that giving dreams a short title along the margin can also help me go back and find them later when i want to check dream details against daily waking life occurences.

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skc link
1/5/2016 01:17:05 am

In the past year I have taken to writing my dreams in my Kindle, using Evernote. This is then easily synched for documentation into PC at a later stage and avoids repeated writing/typing.

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John
1/5/2016 03:47:41 am

I recently noticed childhood dreams, recurring in a way I would not forget helped me through what would have been unbearable things in my life. It did not make all easier, but at least had understanding 30 plus years later how it should be handled.

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LucyInTheSky
1/7/2016 05:53:04 am

This is intriguing. So you suddenly started recalling childhood dreams that aided you in an adult crisis?

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John
1/20/2016 04:42:20 pm

Not 'new' but intuitive by nature. However, yes, the dreams came to pass, up to 33 years later. I am spiritual, and yet specific as a young child, they in fact did all come to be although at that time I could not possibly know what these meant. <3

ShivaShakti
1/5/2016 05:20:00 am

I have been recording my dreams for a real long time now, and this might be strange but i always have a problem giving my dreams a title.....??

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LucyInTheSky
1/5/2016 06:46:14 am

You can get titles either by using a summary approach (picking a few key words from your dream), or thinking of each one as a story. But even one word would do--Flying, Sad, Exam.

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BhaskarB
1/5/2016 09:45:36 am

Great suggestion Lucy!

LucyIntheSky
1/5/2016 06:42:54 am

In your resources you mention the DreamCatcher app. Do you realize that Canadians cannot purchase that app through their app store? Any other app suggestions would be appreciated.

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BhaskarB
1/6/2016 05:02:45 pm

the Shadow app might be one to check out Lucy. It's getting a lot of buzz these days. Has some features most of the others don't like being able to track down people with similar dreams to yours! I don't have an Iphone or i'd tell you more about it. Best, Bhaskar

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LucyInTheSky
1/7/2016 05:56:58 am

I never know how to date a dream. I usually will write the date of the day I went to bed, when technically the dream probably occurred in the wee hours of the next day that I had the dream. My reasoning is that the dream will reference the thoughts and occurrences of the day before I went to sleep, hence the "night of" date. Is there a standard dating protocol?

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BhaskarB
1/7/2016 07:57:05 am

I go with the morning in which the dream was remembered. There is no right or wrong; just a matter of being consistent with whatever system one is using.

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Moonchild link
1/28/2016 07:24:56 pm

For me, in regards for "titling" the dream I fing looking for the "action verb" helps (i.e. running from the police)

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