Keeping A Dream Journal Analysis

Dreams, everyone has them, but do they remember them? Many people claim to have amazing dreams, and others cannot recall a single detail. Many find that to be odd, while others do not mind. According to Sigmund Freud, all dreams are meaningful, even the crazy ones (Wade, 159). Keeping a dream journal is a great way to find out how often you dream and what you can learn about those dreams. Most people dream, even if they don’t recall it. While keeping a dream journal, you can learn a lot about yourself. For instance the first night I started keeping a dream journal, I was shocked I even had a dream. Previously before writing them down, I had no knowledge of such things happening. Most nights my routine did not change, I went to bed at my normal time of 10pm give or take an hour, I ate and drank normal for myself, minus wrestling tournament days, due to the fact that we are stuck in high school gym from morning til night. I always put Young Living Essential Oils in my diffuser next to my bed, every night. I awoke at a normal time on the weekdays of 630am, on wrestling tournament days we were out the door by 5-6am, so we could get drive to the tournaments. I did come to notice a pattern about my dreams. Whether it be not recalling dreams at all
She was in a purple glider with some guy (I couldn’t see his face), and they were out flying. Throughout the dream, the glider crashes and everyone runs off to find them. Thankfully they were found alive and well, the glider was damaged though. When I analysis this dream I had learned that I was experiencing day-residue effects, As Freud says “in every dream it is possible to find a point of contact with the experiences of the previous day” meaning that because I had talked about her the day before I had a dream about it. (Nielsen). We had done a dream forum for psychology class, and her and I talked for quite a long time, we don’t talk nearly enough as we used