 what's up guys today is a question about dream diaries and this is quite an important question I really thought I'd make this video quickly for you today because the question is one that I think a lot of you can relate to this is a question that I think I get emailed quite a lot about and it's really one that I haven't made a video about yet so the question is this I have been remembering my dreams without writing them down in the dream diary do I need to keep a dream diary in order to lose a dream do I even need to keep write my dreams down in the morning if I remember them why bother writing them in the dream diary it's a great question really good question so to answer this I'm gonna sort of explain a little bit about how the brain works and how dream recall works and how that relates to lucid dreaming and then I'm gonna explain what I would suggest you should do depending on what level you're at so let's get right into it a dream diary is great for improving your dream recall okay you're gonna remember much more dreams if you get into the habit writing down in a diary that's one of the reasons that you normally start a dream diary when you learn to lose a dream the other reason is that you can identify what's known as dream science okay these are recurring things that happen in multiple dreams and you can look back and you can say oh in that dream I was doing so-and-so and I was also doing that in this dream that I've just had most recently and you can sort of relate these ideas together and that is the important thing with lucid dreaming because you can identify which things are important which things maybe aren't so important and which things you could use to trigger your lucidity in the future okay so to answer your question in a short way you don't need to keep a dream diary in order to lucid dream you can very easily have a lucid dream without writing your dreams down at all however for most people okay when you first get started writing your dreams down is the most important thing okay because the majority of people the vast majority of people don't remember their dreams or at least they don't remember them in enough detail when they start to lucid dream or when they start to try and learn how to lucid dream and that's the first hurdle really you just got to remember your normal dreams and then from that you can build on that skill and you can start to introduce reality text into a day you can start to do the others techniques and it will all sort of help and build on each other these ideas will build on each other and make it easier as time goes on so if you are a beginner and you are not remembering any dreams absolutely you need to write down your dreams in a dream diary every month absolutely no question about that if you've experienced a lucid dream but you don't have them often and you don't remember your dreams as much as you maybe want to then again still keep writing them in your diary okay if you are an experienced lucid dreamer and either that or you can remember your normal dreams without having to write them down then I would still suggest that you write them in diary and I'm gonna explain why in a second okay and then again the last situation is if you are an experienced lucid dreamer and you're able to lucid dream at will more or less whenever you want and you can remember your lucid dreams then again I would still recommend you write them down but it's not essential okay you don't need to it's a nice thing to do because you know you can look back on them you can identify dream science and yeah so the main reason why I think almost everyone should write their dreams down really regardless of if you can lucid dream or not is firstly if you're beginner the dream recall needs to be built as a skill and the only way of doing that really is to start practicing dream recalls practicing record recording your dreams if you can already remember your dreams the reason that I think you should keep a dream diary still is because you can look back and identify dream science and I know it seems like I'm repeating myself that's because I am it's quite an important thing to go over these dream science you can use to become lucid in the future so for example let's say you notice something in a dream like a dog or a certain color or place that is always there you can then say right you can say to yourself before you go to sleep next time I dream when I dream about my dream sign but what whether it's a dog or a place or whatever it is I will recognize that I'm dreaming and then in the future when you dream about this thing you have a better chance of becoming lucid and that's that's a great thing to have really so yeah I would recommend that regardless of what stage you're at I would really say write things in your dream diary and not only that even if you can remember your dreams flawlessly you can write in your dream diary things like which technique you use to become lucid how you felt in the lucid dream what what goals you had set for yourself if you're on the advanced level of setting lucid goals did you reach them what was difficult what got in a way and you can really start to work on these things at a deeper level if you have them in a recorded format like a diary and it doesn't have to be a paper diary it can be a note on your phone it could be a document on your laptop it could be anything I just say diary because it's the easiest way to for me at least it's the easiest way to just write something quickly down when you wake up it's next to my bed I just get a pen write the dreams down it doesn't take long and it's a very good habit to build it's one of the key building blocks of lucid dreaming and learning how to advance in lucid dream so hope you enjoyed the video if you haven't already subscribed please go ahead and subscribe now I'm gonna try and release roughly every two days a new video to answer your questions if you would like to ask me a question that you 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