DREAM JOURNAL

What You Need to Know

"Here are just a few of the things that were born from their creators’ dreams: Frankenstein, the modern sewing machine, the periodic table, Terminator, Twilight. Much of Edgar Allen Poe’s poetry was inspired by his dreams. Paul McCartney wrote the melody to “Yesterday” in a dream. By some accounts, scientist James Watson hit upon the double-helix structure of DNA after dreaming of two intertwined snakes. " -Use a Dream Journal to Understand Your Waking Life

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Faster Problem Solving

Many studies show that a well-rested mind is a smarter one. Students preparing for a test, for example, scored better when they dreamed about it. Every night when you dream, your brain processes and categorizes all the day’s events. Your brain needs to dream to make sense of your waking life.

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Overcoming Anxiety

A bad dream can help reveal your innermost fears, and give you a way to cope with them safely. If you’re like most people, you forget your dreams whenever you wake up. A dream journal will help you develop dream recall, causing you to notice different dream patterns, including reoccurring nightmares. This will give you valuable insight into all the anxieties that are holding you back in life, and give you a head start on addressing them.

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Better Spiritual Awareness

Ancient Egyptians believed that dreams contained messages from the gods, and so kept a careful record of them. The Egyptians weren’t the first to come up with this concept, and certainly weren’t the last. Every culture, it seems, from the Greeks to the Native Americans, have had similar beliefs about dreams.

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