Dr. Alok Kanojia (Dr. K)

So a dream journal can be like a notebook.

I like pen and paper, strongly recommend it.

I don't know why.

It seems like it accesses the dream better, but you can use like a notes app on your phone.

Leave it by your bed at night.

If you wake up in the middle of the night with a dream, write down as many details as you can.

When you wake up in the morning, just write down as many details as you can.

Some people that I've worked with who do a lot more dream work will sort of say that like it can be useful to literally talk to your brain before you go to bed.

So you can have some like weird, I know this is woo-woo, but like people who work with dreams say that this works pretty well, right?

So you can tell your brain like, hey, bro, whatever you want to tell me tonight, like I'm open to it.

So like open yourself up to receiving the dream.

Just cognitively like tell yourself whatever dream comes, I'm going to be ready for it.

Grab your pen, grab your notebook.

you know, set it by the side of your bed, go to sleep.

So if you wake up in the middle of the night, jot down the dream.

When you wake up the next morning, jot down the dream.

This is important.

Write down as many details as you can.

So that's the first step to working with your dreams.

Now we get to like the more scientifically valid part and the less scientifically valid part.