I know that I had a few dreams that I remembered last night DURING the night.
And I was sure that I would remember them in the morning, but like many of the books I’ve been reading have told me, if you don’t write the dream down just after you have it or when you remember it, it can very easily be lost by the morning. It’s true. This morning, all I could muster up were very vague images of someone’s hair.. having extensions in it, or was she trying to put the extensions in? And someone else was trying to fix up her smudged lipstick… and I think a few girls were getting ready to go out somewhere. But where? And who were they? Was I one of them? I don’t know. But I know that if you had asked me last night, I could have told you a whole heck of a lot more.
I find it fascinating how dreams can seem so vivid while you’re having them, and even just after, but then just slip away so easily only a few minutes or hours later.
I’ve tried keeping my journal near my bed, so that I can quickly jot the story down or at least record the details that I remember at the moment. But, if any of you have tried this, you know that it’s hard to muster up enough energy to even hold a pen in your hand while you’re half asleep, let alone actually write anything that makes sense.
I know, I know. It doesn’t HAVE to make sense. The point is to just get it down, and to make sense of it later. It is just way easier said than done. But I will keep trying. I heard recently that often people write their dreams down in the dark, almost in a scribble form, just to get them recorded at that very moment. And maybe scribbles can include rough sketches or diagrams. I’d just be worried that nothing would be legible enough to read in the morning. And what if you’re one of those people who doesn’t write a lot?
Well, I have another idea. I’ve decided I’m going to see if I can record my voice on my digital recorder, spilling out whatever it is that I think of from my dream, IN THAT MOMENT. Hopefully, I’ll have enough energy to just click record and stop on my recorder? If you have a tape recorder or any device that could record sounds, try it too! I’d love to know what others come up with. Does it help? Is it easier? What kinds of things do you end up saying on it? Does the voice or the details surprise you? Do you scribe the ideas down after you’ve listened to them on the recorder?
I couldn’t try it last night because I realized the batteries on my recorded had run out. So, in the middle of my grocery run today, I made sure I sought out batteries. Now that I have them, I’ll keep the journal, a pen, AND the digital recorder next to my bed tonight. We’ll see which one I end up grabbing, if any, and what comes out of my sleep tonight.
I have to say that as much as I enjoy sleep already, I seem to look forward to going to bed even more, now that I’m on this quest to search out and catch those dreams!
Remember to honor your dreams before you go to sleep. Tell yourself you are going to remember your dreams. And see if your dream guides hear you.
Night night!