 All right, hey guys, this is the third part of my dream journal series. I don't know if you guys remember, I made this about one or two years ago, and I just never finished it off. So now we're gonna finish it off, okay? This is how to keep a lucid dream journal, how to how to write your dreams down in a way that you can remember them later, and in a way that will help you to lucid dream more in the future. So in the first video, I talked about, you know, why it's important to have a dream journal, why you should write your dreams down, and you know, how it all works. In the second video, I explained, you know, what to expect and how to write things in the journal. So this included things like, for example, highlighting important parts of the dream, writing down things like which technique are used, and making sure that you write in the journal every single morning. In this video, in part three, we're gonna be talking about how you can make the whole process faster and more effective, how you can use a digital dream journal, okay? And this is something that is very, not advanced, but it's a very effective thing to do, especially if you want to have more lucid dreams, because you can search for dream science. We'll get onto that in a minute anyway. And also how you can, you know, make this whole process more fun, because at the end of the day, writing your dreams down every single morning, it can seem a bit daunting, and you can get a bit bored of the whole idea, which is why there are a lot of videos and a lot of articles, especially on Reddit, where people are saying, is there any way of lucid dreaming without having to write my dreams down, because I'm bored, I'm bored of the process. I don't like writing my dreams down, okay? So firstly, let me just, let's just get right into it, okay? So firstly, to make the dream journal more effective, there are a few things you can do. Firstly, make sure you keep it by your bed at all times, make sure that you have a good light source near the dream journal, but not one that's gonna wake you up and, you know, flood your light with, flood your eyes, sorry, with blue light. You want to have like an ambient soft glow light. So for example, let me just show you the light I use for my, when I write in my dream journal, this, and this, this is a Himalayan salt lamp, okay? So if I just turn this on now, you'll notice that it's a really soft glowing light, and this shines onto my night table here. The Himalayan salt lamp that I use is good because it doesn't flood my eyes and it doesn't flood the room with really bright harsh light. It's just enough to be able to see what you're writing and see what you're doing. That's the important thing here. You just want to see what you're writing. Secondly, make sure that the dream journal has enough space to write. So for example, if you have a tiny, tiny dream journal, like the size of a phone, that's gonna be awkward to write in, especially in the morning, or especially if you're tired. So I like to have at least an A4 sized dream journal, like a full, full page. So just that there's enough space so that if you, if you can't really see what you're doing, or if you're not really awake enough to realize what you're doing, you can scroll things and they'll still be legible and usable later. You can try things like giving yourself small rewards every time you write in the journal. This is positive reinforcement. You can, for example, have a box of chocolates next to your bed. And every time you write in the journal in the morning, you have a chocolate or something else that you enjoy. I don't know, a sweet Haribo. So that's how you, you know, improve the process of writing in the dream journal in the mornings. Now, talking about making your dream journal digital. Now, this is something that I wouldn't recommend to do straight away, but as soon as you have, I would say, one to two months worth of dreams written down in your journal, it's going to be time to start writing them in a laptop or, you know, on your phone. The key here is to make a document, OK, a searchable document. So if you have a Mac, for example, open a pages document. If you have a Windows computer, open a Microsoft Word document. And you're going to make the journal entries searchable. So in each journal entry, you're going to firstly write the date, obviously, then you're going to write the title of the dream. So that's going to be just a short description of what the dream is about. OK, this is really important. So don't just write dream number 8002. Write, for example, the one with just like the Friends episodes that used to be on TV, the one with the horse or, you know, the one where you walked to the market. Something that can help you describe it later, so that when you're looking back on the dream journal, if you want to suddenly go to a dream where you were dreaming about horse, you just have to type into the dream journal horse and all of those dreams will come up for you. And it will highlight the dream signs so you can easily see them. This will not only help you recognise your dream signs, recurring themes, but it will also help you search for dreams that you maybe were reminded of or if you had a dream recently about something and you think, you know what, I remember a dream about that before, but I just can't remember when it was. You don't need to remember when. It could have been five years ago. Just type it into your dream journal on your computer. It will come, it will bring it up instantly within seconds and you'll be able to read it. So that's why it's important to keep a digital dream journal. What I would suggest to do is write your dreams down in the normal dream journal every morning and then every week write it up on your laptop into the document. You don't have to do this every day, unless you want to. You know, it takes a bit of time. Or, you know, if you do have a laptop with that can go right down with almost no light or zero light, then you can just type it on your laptop in the morning anyway. I find that I'm usually too tired to type on a laptop in, for example, if I've been woken up at five, six in the morning, I prefer to write it or scroll it down in my handwriting and then type it up later when I can think more clearly. But that's really, you know, the digital side of the dream journals. If you have it on a service like Dropbox or OneDrive, you can actually use it on your phone. And this is even better because you can type it up on your laptop and then say if you're out and about and you suddenly get reminded of something from a previous dream, you can type the keyword in on your phone and it will bring up all your dream journal entries from the last five, ten years. So this is a really effective way of, you know, looking back on your dream science. And that's really it, guys. That's the third part of this dream journal series. That's how you keep a dream journal. If I think of anything else, I'll obviously make another video part four. But for now, just make sure that you actually use it. That's the most important thing. Make sure you actually use your dream journal and you do write your dreams down every morning. OK, so if you enjoyed this video, please subscribe and I'll see you next time.