We often write off dreams unless they’re extremely detailed and long, but dreams should never be ignored! According to this book, the overall theme, mood, and content of a dream is more important than its length. Same as with everything else, dream quality outweighs quantity.
Don’t discredit a dream just because you remember one thing. Instead, ask yourself if that one thing is meaningful in some way. Every dream carries information with it that can reveal insight into your mindset and thought process.
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The Importance of Tracking Dreams
The best way to discover what meanings your short dream snippets have is to keep track of them. When you keep track of these little one-offs they add up to show a larger pattern that can have a big impact on your life!
The way I think about it is like this: Bringing mindfulness into your day leads to building healthy patterns and increased self-awareness. Similarly, tracking your dreams is how you can bring mindfulness to your nighttime routine.
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Increase your awareness of what you do at night and what you dream, and it will assist you in uncovering patterns and meanings in your actions and dreamscape. The takeaways you receive from interpreting your dreams can lead to improved self-awareness and better understanding of problems you’re facing during the day.
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Dream Journaling for Mindfulness
Keeping a dream journal is how you can not only bring mindfulness into your nighttime routine, but also provide many positive results in your daily routine!
If you’re curious how you can track your dreams, it doesn’t take much at all. It’s as simple as keeping a pad of paper and a pen by your bedside. This way, when you wake up you can immediately record what you remember from your dream.
If you’re interested in investing in a better system, I recommend investing in an actual dream journal. This one from our shop incorporates monthly spreads for tracking sleep quality along with a dream log to have a wholesome approach on how your dreams are impacted by your current lifestyle. Plus, this journal provides space for writing down your dreams along with prompts for dream interpretation!
This dream journal includes:
- Monthly Sleep Quality Tracker
- Dream Interpretation Spread, with space to log your dream info and questions to assist with interpreting your dream’s meanings
- Journal prompts to help you improve your nighttime routine, sleep quality and dream retention
- & More!
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Mindfulness is all about being aware and in the present. Even when we sleep, we can practice mindfulness at night through our dreams. So why not build awareness of what you dream about? Only then can you take advantage and uncover the meanings your dreams hold.
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