 Also ladies and gentlemen today I am making a video that I should have made a long time ago And this is like such a key concept to lucid dreaming But I just haven't made a video about it for some reason no idea why So we're just gonna go ahead and talk about it now, and that is dream journals Okay Now I'm gonna explain why you should keep a dream journal the best ways of doing it and like a few little tips I've sort of learned of over the years a few little things you can use that will make your life easier Make it more effective and at the end of the day it give you more lucid dreams and let you remember more dreams Regardless of whether the lucid or not. Okay Now before I start and I should explain that like I say in almost every video now Everybody does dream every night. Okay So the question is how many remember their dreams, which is not that many You know if you ask the average person If they remember their dreams They're gonna say yeah, maybe sometimes like maybe they'll remember little snippets of the dream or little things that happened But it won't be like every single night For most people at least that they remember details about all of the dreams they had And the main reason for this is the people don't practice it. They don't write their dreams down And I don't really want or need to and so, you know It's just one of those things But for you guys people who want to learn how to lose a dream if we want to improve their mind to want to you know Do all of that cool stuff? You kind of need to write your dreams down now. This is this doesn't have to be difficult You literally just need a note bad and note bad notepad Or like some sort of way of recording the dreams you can use an app on your phone You can use a voice recorder and I like to use a pen and paper notepad simply because it's just It feels more authentic and it kind of feels a bit special as well. It feels like some sort of Secret dream journal thing. It kind of adds a bit of magic to the whole experience But you know, you can you can do it in anything you can write on your laptop if you want So this I don't want to make this such a long video that you guys get bored So I might split this into several parts. This is just gonna be the first part Which just explains like why you need to write your dreams down and how to start Okay, so the main reason you need to write them down is because if you don't write them down You won't be able to look back at them later. Okay, so you won't be able to identify dream signs Recurring themes in your dream that will help you become lucid in the future. You won't be able to see What things help you become lucid? Okay, this is one of the little tricks I'm gonna get into in a later part of this series Because there are little things like for example Just writing down the technique you used next to the dream journal entry Means that you can over time you can see like, oh well that technique worked for me That one didn't so much this one gave me a couple of lucid dreams, but they weren't really that stable Do you see what I mean? You can kind of get a better understanding of what works for you So yeah, but anyway, that's a little that's in a later video. So for this one Just get yourself a little like something like this. I'm probably wondering what I've been looking at down there on the desk Just a simple notepad like this. Okay, or if you want to just go out you can get like a big More detailed one with even little tab sections for months, whatever you want to do Okay, the idea is just get something That you can keep by your bed and write your dreams down and you need to write them down every single morning Okay, so the first thing you do when you wake up Actually, there's a few things you should do but you know for this purposes of this video The first thing you do when you wake up should be to write down immediately everything you remember about that nice dreams Okay, so all the details try and start with what I like to do is Write like a framework. So if you remember like key locations and key dream scenes write those down as like subheadings almost and then So that why you won't forget the main important parts of it And then you can like fill in the details later on as you sort of go back through it If you try and like write all the details of one dream first, then, you know You might miss you might forget the other ones. Okay, you might forget the details of the other ones And it just becomes like a bit of a bit of a blur really so try and Try and have some sort of framework. So well, yeah, like like I just said write down subheadings write down the details later now This might be difficult when you first start. Okay, because as Most people find if you don't practice some, you know If you don't write your dreams down anyway, then when you start doing it It's gonna be a bit tricky like you're gonna have to practice it Okay, and what you'll probably find is during the first week or two You don't remember much about your dreams at all, especially if you're a beginner and if you're new If you've never done this before or if you've only done it a few times You will find it difficult to remember your dreams because it's not something that you've been practicing. Okay, this is this is perfectly normal You just need to just keep going just keep keep doing it And what's really important is to make sure that you always write in the diary Okay, even if you can't remember any dreams doesn't matter. Just write down like no dreams were called on no I couldn't remember any dreams. Okay, and the reason that's important is because you're training your mind to at least try and Remember the dreams. Okay And over time this will Eventually your mind will turn around and say hang on we're gonna have to write something in the diary in the morning Anyway, we should probably remember the dreams and like on our subconscious level you start paying more attention and Remembering parts of the dream. Okay, so write something down If it helps draw pictures draw little notes and yeah over the next few weeks I'm gonna be releasing like different parts of the series and we're gonna get into the advanced tips later When we talk about dream signs highlighting themes topic modeling and like different layers of lucidity Different techniques and like connecting them all and then I'm going to go into using like a digital dream diary And how you can use it to like cross-reference things and search and have themes and all of that cool stuff So if you would like to see that, please make sure you subscribe And I'll see you in the next video