 What's up ladies and gentlemen boys and girls welcome to part two of the dream diary Post series, I guess you could say a little series of popem videos that I'm saying post Where I show you how to keep a dream journal keep a dream diary and how it can help you lose a dream now this Part this is part two. This is gonna be explaining a bit more about what you can expect when you start keeping a dream diary What will happen? Why it will happen and what sort of things you should be writing down? It's not just a case of writing like the dream believe it or not There's actually some things that you should be doing Which will just make things a bit easier for you before we go any further Please do not judge this little bit of hair here. That's just sort of flapping around. I came out the shower and it just Decided to just go crazy. So let's move on from that Now when you first start keeping a dream diary, okay, what you're gonna notice is that within the first week or two You like I said in the first video find it difficult to remember things Okay, this is normal And as time goes by what you'll notice is that every day that goes by that you're writing your dreams down or at least trying to okay You will remember more and more of the dream Okay, and the reason for this is because your brain isn't used to remembering dreams But then when you train it to do something when you train it to remember your dreams You slowly start actually getting better at it believe it or not. I mean, you know come on guys It's like it's like anything if you practice it you get better at it, right? So, yeah, each day you'll notice that you can remember slightly more more detail more depth more Context, you know, you remember things like the feelings that the sights the smells like you'll start to involve more sensors than just I was dreaming about a boat or I was in a field Okay, you'll start to remember lots of intricate details eventually after a few weeks Not immediately, but you can expect that okay, so that's what you're aiming for You're aiming to remember about two to three dreams per night and I don't be sort of put off by this You'll we won't do that at the first if you're a beginner. You'll probably remember like bits of one if you're lucky Okay, but don't worry about it. You will eventually be able to remember like two or three dreams per night in detail And identify things like dream signs your emotions the the themes running through your dreams Okay, the common recurring themes because there are some And a few other things as well, which we'll get into in another video So I'd just like to give you a bit of a rundown on what you should include in the in the entries So when you write down a dream journal entry And I haven't got an example for you at the moment because I've actually lost my main dream diary But it's it's not a problem. I'll start another one and in the next video. I'll show you that But what you want to do is you want to put the date that's up So the date of the day where you went to sleep or the next day doesn't matter But put the date at the top and write down Firstly at the beginning of the entry you want to write down the details of the setup Okay, so what I mean what I mean by the setup is that that day before you went to sleep and had the dream What what was the basic gist of the day? Okay? I'm talking about did you go anywhere new? Did you exercise more than you usually do? Did you eat more or less than you usually do? Did you drink enough water? Did you drink alcohol? Did you take any drugs? Did you take any sort of supplements? That's important. Okay? And you need to write down just at the entry. It doesn't have to be a lot of information But just a few keywords like I took this supplement today or I drank so-and-so glasses of water Okay, or I tried This meditation technique are just little keywords things that you think would influence the dream Okay, and use a bit of common sense here what you think might influence the dream Generally speaking is anything that's going to be changing your awareness in the waking day So in meditation going to new places anything you ingest that's different to what you normally ingest Or more or less to what you normally ingest food drink Little things like that, so you're just gonna write these down at the start of the entry and Then when you write so that's like the intro you can like draw a little line under that put it in brackets Whatever you want to do then you will write the actual dream entry now when I do this what I do is I write down at the very top I write three or four or maybe three to five keywords, so I'll say like if it's in a field. I'll put field winter zombies Machine guns for example, right? Okay, and so that'll like summarize the dream for me So if I get distracted or if someone calls me or whatever it is, you know, I Can always go back to those keywords and think and it reminds me of the whole dream So I'm not gonna forget everything. Okay, so you want to put these keywords at the start and Then you want to use them as subheadings so you want to just build out the dream as if you were writing an article But you don't have to write that much Okay So in that example you would you write, you know, I had a dream I was in a field And so and so write down whatever you can remember Okay, now I'm not gonna give you too much more example on that because it's gonna vary depending on how long you've been doing it How much you'll be able to remember so for the beginners you might just remember I was dreaming in a field and that's fine You still need to write the setup because that does help eventually And you still need to write that even if it's just a sentence like like I said in the first video Even if you just write no dreams were called. Okay, that's better than nothing and it does train your mind eventually to learn how to remember dreams That's how it works. Um, so yeah, so You have that and then when you finish writing in the dream no matter how much you write It works better with longer dreams or like at least I Don't know at least like Average length dreams. You need to have something there Right, but you want to go back through it and you want to highlight all the important parts So the locations the events what were you doing? Where were you? And then anything else important that you think might be relevant like say if you found a special key And in the dream you've got some sort of feeling or vibe that this key was important then highlight the key And then when you look back at the dreams You'd be able to see these things and you'd be able to link them all up And what actually happens is you notice links between dreams that might have happened months ago that really Tell you things about like for example, you might be at a new job in waking life, right? And you'll have a dream that night Which will link up perfectly to a dream you might have had months ago And it really it really is it does get very interesting and you know I could talk about dream interpretation and that stuff I could talk about for hours, but I'm not going to because you guys are probably getting bored It's getting so about six minutes. So I'm going to wrap it up there You can actually go ahead and follow along and start doing this I'm not sure how many of these videos I want to make but I'm going to a lot more detail about dream diaries The more we get into the series. So this is part two explain why you need to keep them how to keep them What you should write down So go ahead and start doing this if you want to follow along or if you're a superstar you are already doing it anyway So that's fine This will still be helpful to you. Hopefully Yeah, and that's cool. That's it So if you're new around here subscribe, please and I'll see you in the next video What I've got planned for the next month. Okay, just so you know is I might be doing Like a sleep deprivation challenge This is kind of inspired by Gears Edwards. I saw him attempt this on his YouTube channel And I thought it might be a cool idea just to vlog the whole experience see what happens because I've never done it before I've never stayed awake actually longer than 30 hours or so and I think he was going for a hundred hours. I'm probably not going to get to a hundred, but I'll probably When I do this in a few weeks time. I'll probably get to Maybe 50 I don't know. We'll see how it goes So, yeah, that's one of the future videos. I'll see you in the next one