Dream Journal

Shiloah and I have been analyzing our dreams for each other for years. Personally, I have always had an interest in the "other worldliness" of dreams. Many times I've experienced de'ja vu, I've had dreams of personal revelation, I've had dreams that make absolutely no sense (like the one time I dreamed cockroaches were driving around my living room in little matchbox cars). If the dream is interesting enough I'll write it down in my journal. So, last night Shiloah and I decided to start keeping a dream journal.
I'm actually really excited to do this. I do believe that sometimes dreams are a way of filing away our everyday life happenings. But it's also a way to keep track of some inner feelings you may have. Analyzing them can give you an incite into what you may need to change, realize, or even find comfort in.
Shiloah read me a few paragraphs out of the book "Arm the Children" by Arthur King (hope that's right), and I'll just paraphrase here, but he said that many people have dismissed the importance of our dreams now days. For the ancient prophets and people, dreams were analyzed, important and viewed as a way of God communicating personally with us.
So now I know one of my New Year's resolutions: keep a dream journal. It will be interesting to go back and read the things recorded over a year. I'm excited about it.
If you would like to start your own journal, here are some tips. I got these off of www.dreamworkers.org, and they have a list of things to do to get started.

Dream Journal Instructions

1. Prior to going to bed, fill in the Day/Date field with the day/date of the night you are going to sleep, not the morning you wake up.
2. Write the consecutive number of the dream about to happen in the Number field.
3. Fill in the Day Notes field with a short description of your day, including your mood and feelings about the day's events.
4. Fill in the Incubation Discussion field with what you would like answered in your dreams and why.
5. Fill in the Question field with your incubation question (as discussed later.)
6. Incubate your dream and go to sleep.
7. Immediately upon awaking, fill in the remaining fields even flit is the middle of the night. If you remember no dream, it can wait until morning. In the morning, fill in the remaining fields whether you remember a dream or not.
8. What was the mood and atmosphere of the dream, or of your feelings upon awakening if you don't remember the dream?
9. What title would you give the dream?
10. Describe the dream in as much detail as you can remember without getting too crazy about using just the right wording. Small details may count, however, so write what you can.
11. What objects and symbols were in your dream?
12. When you can, using one of the methods you will learn, interpret your dream and fill in the Interpretation field.
13. If a dream is associated to another dream, put its number in the Previous Assoc. field.
14. Start of fill in your symbol dictionary.