I started journaling my dreams consistently in 2017.

One bit of advice for anyone else trying to do it: write notes for every dream; even the mundane, boring ones; even the ones where you only remember one frame; even dreams that are just vague feelings.

Every time you do that, you are reinforcing the habit, training yourself how to remember and how to write about it.

In 2025, I remembered at least something for 28 out of 30 days of every month (on average). When I first started taking notes, I might only remember a single dream in a week. Before I decided to always write something down, I might go a month or longer without remembering a single detail.

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I had the most vivid dream I've had in recent memory. I hardly ever remember dreams upon awakening, and by the time I brush my teeth, they're almost always completely gone.

It almost felt like I woke up and was lying in bed, not actually asleep and dreaming. I was a receiver, being sent instructions from Bill Gates via Starlink satellites directly to my body. The messages were encoded and I wasn't made privy to the contents. It was unclear whether Bill Gates was working with Elon Musk or had hacked the Starlink network for his own purposes. I also felt no unease and just lay there receiving the encoded instruction, until the message stopped and I immediately felt sleepy and returned to sleep, only to move on to other dreams. Is this the result of 6 COVID vaxx doses or just a coincidence? I feel Mr Gates is going to be sorely disappointed, because I don't really have the physique to be some sort of Jason Bourne sleeper agent.

In less crazy news: besides the bizarre, vivid dream, I feel perfectly fine 18 hours and one sleep cycle after getting 4 vaccines at the same time. I feel no "vaccine flu", and only mild soreness in the covid/flu arm, and no soreness at all in the hpv/hepatitis arm.

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Ever wish you could remember those fascinating dreams that vanish as soon as you wake up? 🌙📝

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Bit from a #dream last night...

Am alternating between being several different characters and myself, one of them is a black maid, one of them is Georgie from Young Sheldon, this isn't super important but they get a job at some fish restaurant before it's just me and not characters.

Am being trained and getting the uniform on, having a conversation with the experienced employee onboarding me. He brings me into a very large warehouse room room where they're processing giant fish, because apparently giant mutant fish is how they keep prices down, and one wall is a window to the lake-sized aquarium where they keep the giant fish.

Seems normal to me, kinda neat really.

He says something that implies there's a bad part of this job.

Me: "Oh, I get it, there's some job here that nobody likes but everyone has to do."

He looks at me with intense concern, horrified that I don't know.

Giant goofy whale pops in through the window and eats him.

Me: "Oh."

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Had a wierd dream went into a shop and as well as a these craft items they sold out of date food vacuum sealed. Bread was one of the items, dried lemons and oranges that just looked like squashed husks.

A bunch of wierd ribena stuff. Ribena pickled eggs, ribena infused with bacon stuff like that.

One of those limited edition products that someone kept to sell on later at a much higher price. Because they are rare.

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#Dream: Friend L was my teammate in a dog race (the rules were, we did the actual work of driving/paddling/etc, our dogs just needed to be present). L was freaking out about a driving section that seemed exceptionally unsafe, and demanded that I look up from our dogs. She was right, the curvy mountain looked extremely hazardous, I had no idea how she was successfully navigating it

After we reached the next checkpoint, someone wanted to drop out so L and I volunteered to take their dogs. I wanted a satellite phone in case anything bad happened so I bought one, but when I left the checkpoint I had been bamboozled, it was just a pay-as-you-go Sprint phone with 3G. There was no time to complain, I had to start paddling.

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#Dream cont'd (2/2):

All the TVs got shut off because it was time for the aliens to invade again, so we hunkered down and waited for the superheroes to take care of it again. I asked why the heroes didn't stop the aliens permanently and it was explained to me that we were on a barge surrounded by a force field and were greatly outnumbered, and every time the aliens were defeated they evolved and came back stronger. We were the last bastion of humanity.

I figured I should join the superheroes, so I built what I thought was a fairly impressive space fighter and left the force field, only to immediately encounter two ships that made mine look like a spec of dust. I did find out that one of them belonged to one of our superheroes who was a double-agent, though, so I headed back with this information.

Then I woke up.

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#Dream (post 1/2)

I accidentally shaved a patch off my beard, so I figured I'd shave the whole thing off. My newly revealed face was horribly disfigured. I was trying to get a photo of a disturbing pit in between the folds of my cheek when a friend told me that I would go back to normal if I lost weight, and that we should hang out.

I brought him and some other friends I didn't recognize to a room where I had 8 different kinds of TV all hooked up to play Smash Brothers. My ex-sister-in-law texted me and accused me of misgendering one of the people there, who I had only just met for the first time that day. Turns out he was a trans man, which she did not know, and I had defaulted to he/him which was coincidentally correct.

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I’ve been on Mastodon for 6 months, just changed servers, and — given the prevalent “this is it” feeling of other Twitter castaways this week — it feels a good time to re-re-introduce myself.

I am a survivor of clergy sexual abuse from Greater Boston — I was one of them kids. My writing sprouts rhizomatically from there and then through autofiction based on 16 years of dream-journaling, episodic dissociation, recalls of abuse, alcohol addiction and recovery, a sensitivity to ephemera and eternal return.

Following a stroke 12 years ago I became a certified personal trainer. Further into recovery I co-hosted wellness seminars for fellow survivors of sexual abuse. Ambulatorily-disabled upon being hit by a 65+mph car 5+ years ago, I now walk with the assistance of a shillelagh. I continue to train in San Miguel Eskrima.

I’m on social media primarily out of concern over COVID and fascism. A recluse, offline I keep to myself. But I’ve also never met a stranger.

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“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” — Samuel Beckett

"Life, willing to surpass itself, is the good life, and the good life is the courageous life." — Paul Tillich

"All suffering is formative of the identity that endures it." — Catherine Malabou

"To make trouble was, within the reigning discourse of my childhood, something one should never do precisely because that would get one in trouble. The rebellion and its reprimand seemed to be caught up in the same terms, a phenomenon that gave my first critical insight into the subtle ruse of power: the prevailing law threatened one with trouble, even put one in trouble, all to keep one out of trouble. I concluded that trouble is inevitable and the task how best to make it, what best way to be in it." —Judith Butler

"‘Everything develops, and I myself develop as well; and why this is so will one day be apparent,’ was the formula I was obliged to adopt." — Tolstoy

"I feel that it is necessary and ordained that I should be alone, a stranger and an exile in relation to every human circle without exception." — Simone Weil

"At that stage in a piece of writing where people used to look for explanations, I would like them from now on to find a settling of scores." — Raoul Vaneigem

"The only two things that motivate me and that matter to me are revenge and guilt." —Elvis Costello.

"There is a battle going on, more or less conscious, between Duty and Desire. The part of me which belongs to the world wishes to do its duty : the part of me which belongs to God wishes simply to fulfill what is required and which is un-stateable." — Henry Miller

“I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist.” — Albert Camus

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Dream: A popular music artist, I think Cardi B, had a video go viral where her butt cheeks were visible. Two different Cardi Bs were then created, one who was very proud of her butt and happy it went viral, and one who ran around in pink sweatpants very sad and worried that everyone saw her butt.

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#DreamJournaling I finally met Stan Lee who lives on my space station. I thanked him for his writing and told him it meant a lot but then he was called away for his ship to Euphoria Station and I realized that was where the old people went and didn't come back. This was an interesting moment while trying to sneak into a space biker bar with fake IDs.

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I've been writing down what I remember about my dreams since 2011. It was very sporadic at first. The more you do it, the easier it becomes.

I used to use a Dream Journal app but it hasn't been updated since 2012 and never had cloud support. I actually lost some of my oldest notes when my tablet hard locked and had to be reset to factory defaults.

It was called "Dream Journal Pro" by "Radiant Monkey Software".

What I kept from that program are a series of prompts that it provided. I try to remember them before going to sleep, while dreaming, and as soon as I wake up.

The following are taken directly from the old Dream Journal Pro help file.

• Title
• - A short title for the dream.
• Date
• - When did the dream occur?
• Date
• Type - "Ordinary" is default.
• - Ordinary - as it suggests.
• - Anxiety - anxiety is experienced in some fashion.
• - Fragment - part of a dream, or an image or two.
• - Lucid - aware in the dream that you are dreaming.
• - Nightmare - involving extreme emotion(s), possibly including terror, helplessness, extreme anxiety, pain, etc.
• - Telepathic - involving some sort of communication with others while dreaming.
• - Prophetic - involving warnings of some future event(s).
• - Daydream - dream or fantasy which occurred while awake/conscious.
• - Initial - first dream after important life change or event (e.g.: starting psychotherapy).
• - Wish Fulfillment - if you consider yourself a Freudian, ALL your dreams will be of this type...
• - Sleep Paralysis - During REM sleep, the body musculature shuts down (with the notable exception of eye movement). Sleep paralysis occurs when the individual is still conscious when the mind is entering REM sleep. Detailed information on Wikipedia here: sleep paralysis
• - Erotic - (broadly) a dream of a sexual nature.
• - Numinous - a dream which elicits the experience or sensation of bearing witness to a mysterium tremendum et fascinans (a fearful and fascinating mystery). A dream which leaves one feeling one has witnessed something powerfully important, regardless of how well the dream is 'understood.' Actually, by definition, an experience of the numinous is beyond words and beyond understanding. You'll know it when you experience it. As the great mentalist Joseph Dunninger wrote, "For those who believe, no explanation is necessary; for those who do not believe, no explanation will suffice." There are entire books written regarding the idea of numinosity, both from a religious and a non-religious standpoint; some additional information is available on Wikipedia here: numinous. A starting point for exploring a more Jungian view is here: Jung and the numinous.
• - Layered - a dream within a dream, usually involving two levels but can contain more. A dream in which the dream ego experiences itself dreaming.
• - Recurring - a dream, or dream theme, which occurs more than once.
• Dream Text
• - The narrative of the dream. Should only include exactly what occurred in the dream, no asides, embellishments, etc.
• General Notes
• - A catchall for any information you want to include which doesn't fit into any other field.
• Objective Context.
• - This is what occurred in your waking life around the time of the dream. Did anything noteworthy occur the day before the dream, or during the week before the dream? Anything occur in your waking life which caused you to feel any strong emotions?
• Age of dream ego
• - This is the age of the "I" in the dream. Are you roughly your current age, a younger age, an older age? The content of the dream may relate to something that occurred to you at that age.
• Age associated with the dream setting
• - Regardless of what age the "I" in the dream is, the setting of the dream may suggest an age of importance - was it the house you grew up in until you were 7? The apartment you rented briefly when you were 30? The beach you vacationed at when you were 12? The content of the dream may relate to something that occurred to you at that age.
• Setting of dream (associations)
• - How do you feel about the setting of the dream? Pleasant? Unpleasant? Scary? Peaceful? Was it a place you know in your waking life? Does it remind you of a place you know in your waking life? How do you feel about that place?
• Feeling(s) in the dream
• - What feeling(s) were experienced in the dream? Did you feel happy, content? Afraid, with a sense of impending doom?
• What does this dream compensate
• - Dreams frequently compensate a one-sided attitude in life.
• Associations to dream figures, elements, symbols
• - What comes to mind when you think of the various elements of the dream? Do you like them, dislike them, feel irritated, curious - and why?
• Interpretation
• - What makes the most sense to you, and can change over time, in light of subsequent dreams, etc.

I've added a couple of my own.

• Colors
• - What colors were prominent or especially vivid in the dream?

In fact, any sensory information is good to try to remember. Unfortunately, I've not had much luck with smells or tastes in dreams no matter how hard I try. Your mileage may vary on that.

• Animals
• - What creatures, either real or mythical, played a role in your dream?

Animals, insects, inhuman entities, all of these have specific meanings to you and your subconcsious mind. You have to think about the feelings the creatures illicit when you see or interact with them. Awe? Fear? Disgust? Comraderie?

That's an important thing to remember, as well. A book about interpreting dreams will tell you what the generally accepted meaning of something is, but it cannot tell you what that particular thing means to you. Only you can know that and it is for you to figure out.

Keeping all this in mind helps me focus on and remember the important parts, the parts that likely have meaning. I do not run through the entire list every morning. I only focus on the parts of my dreams that really stood out.

I've only had one dream that I would call numinous but I will never forget it. It didn't completely change my life, but it did make me look at things very differently.
I saw the entire universe in a drop of water. I freed myself from a locked room by changing my focus. I did not move, but the universe shifted and I was no longer trapped.

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#DreamJournaling it was like an 80s college comedy where the village was a student who was a literal incarnation of the devil but he loses because the incarnation is incredibly out of shape (and also loves olives ) so the hero (a young Jordan Peel) who is on a sports scholarship just threatens and bullies the devil until he explains how to escape his trap. He gets bullied about loving olive samplers from chain Italian restaurants.