Things that help me remember dreams!
This is probably the biggest one for me -not looking at your phone or checking emails or texts as soon as you wake up from a dream and going from the bed to the shower. -it was hard for me to unlearn this but it has helped me in so many ways. When I was doing dream journaling, having a pen and paper on my nightstand helped and I often would wake up and immediately start record myself speaking in the voice recorder app on my iPhone. I found that I could just slur and get keywords out that I could work with after. What’s great about the iPhone is the voice recorder auto transcribes your speech, so you can copy and paste the keywords into a search engine, chat gpt or write them down by hand later. A prompt that I would use when plugging dream journals into ChatGPT (this was before ChatGPT 5, which has a lil’ bit of a bias so you have to be smart with wording): “Knowing what you know about me, Analyze the key words and symbols from my dream through the lens of jungian psychology, hermeticism, and help me identify patterns in this dream that speak to possible situations in my personal journey so I can better understand the higher guidance and wisdom I am receiving through dreams. or something like that! you may want to follow it up with, “now analyze through the same lens from an unbiased and objective perspective”; to compare! I also keep notes pinned in my notes app for reoccurring dreams so I have kind of a master list of symbols. excited to try out some of the things I learned from today’s class! - Carl Jung’s Red Book is also really fascinating, it is pretty weird and neat on the topic of dream journaling.