 hey guys we're back with another video today from a person who would like to remain anonymous and they say what how often do I need to you know read back my past dreams obviously he's been keeping a dream journal writing dreams down every morning but how often do you really need to read them back you know what do you actually do with them once in the dream journal they're in your notepad by the bed and they're done what do you do with them well the answer to that is you sort of read the last so what I would do the way I would approach this okay is when you go to bed at night last thing at night what you should do is have like a sort of routine that you follow so it might be something like you know you get ready for bed you relax then maybe you put on some relaxing music maybe you meditate then you do a reality check then you might read about some technique that you want to try or you know an experiment right and then you read back your last night's dream so what I would what I personally do is I like to read back so the last one or two nights from my dream journal before I get to bed on anyone on any one night and what this does is it keeps you constantly you know in sync with like the dreams that you've just had so the last day or two and it means that you're gonna sort of follow like a flow you know you're not gonna enter the same dream again right because that's not really possible you can't have like exactly the same dream twice in a row but what it will do is it will let you sort of follow the same theme you know say if you last night you were in a dream and you were trying to fly for example if you read back that dream again tonight you know you're gonna be more likely to fly tonight in your dreams because it's the last thing you were thinking about so really it depends what you want to actually dream about and you know what sort of scene you want to have in your lucid dream if you want to go back and recreate a dream that you've already had then in that case maybe you should look through your dream diary and find a dream that in which you're doing what you want to do say if you want to climb a mountain right go back through a dream journal read it read the last dream that you had where you're climbing a mountain before you go to bed and then that's it you know you'll be more likely to dream about climbing a mountain whatever the case is now a quick note about this what you'll find okay is that after you've got a few dreams in your journal you know you've got a few pages filled up especially after a few weeks or months it's gonna be hard to look back through that and find you know what you're looking for because there's so many dreams and hopefully they're so detailed and there's just so much writing so what I would suggest to do is once you've filled up a few a few weeks of your dream journal is type it up on a computer so type it up into a document you know on on your computer laptop whatever and what this will mean is that you can actually now search back through dreams you've already had and this saves a lot of time so instead of flicking back through a notepad it's by your bed it might be all tatty and hard to read maybe it's like scrawled because it's been so early in the morning or late at night and you couldn't really write it properly instead of doing all that type it up into a document and then if you want to dream about a mountain search the document on your computer for a mountain and then you'll come up with all your dreams that you've had about mountains and it's just so much easier you know it's gonna save you a lot of time it's gonna mean that you can instantly find the dream or the dream signs you're looking for and like I said if you want to recreate a dream scene and have like a specific adventure or experience in a dream then it helps to read about the last time you had a similar type of dream right it just helps sort of prime your subconscious mind to dream about that in the same way that if you you know just before going to bed constantly tried to visualize an island like really vividly imagining all the details of an island it's pretty likely that you know rather than anything else you're gonna dream about an island okay so it's sort of the same principle so to answer the original question you know more concisely you don't have to stick to anything specific with reading back your last dreams if you just want to have you know a consistent this dreaming experience read back the last day or two before you go to bed if you want to have a specific dream about something you know in particular then read about other dreams you've had where you dreamed about that specific thing so I hope this helps please go ahead and subscribe and I'll see you next time