Recording dreams in middle of the night

Here’s an easy way to record your dreams in the middle of the night, in the dark.

Barbara, who hosted a dream group with me by Skype last week, shared this tip during the session when we were talking about how much more insight you can get into the meaning of a dream when you tell it aloud. We tend to use different words when we talk about a dream compared to when we write it down. The spoken version is raw, energised emotionally, and closer to the dream experience. When we tell a dream aloud, our unconscious mind tends to leap in and spill some helpful beans in the way we express ourselves too.

I invited Barbara to contribute her tip for today’s blog. Here it is:

“Because I have a lot of dreams, I sometimes don’t have the energy to turn on the light and write them all down throughout the night, so recently, I decided to record them and transcribe them in the morning when I am less grumpy and more alert.  A friend of mine set up my phone (an ordinary Nokia) with the microphone icon as the 1st option, so all I have to do in the middle of the night is:

1. unlock phone

2. click microphone icon and

3. click record.

I have found that it’s much quicker, easier and less disruptive to my sleeping patterns (and I don’t need to turn on the light).  Also, talking the dream whilst still drowsy makes the relaying of the information much more accurate and closer to the original dream.”  – Barbara.

Thanks Barbara!

Try this tonight and post your comments on how you go.

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