Custom JournalDream Journal
A morning dream diary: write the dream before it fades, tag the people and places, note the feeling, and track recall and lucidity over time.
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About this template
Dreams are gone within minutes of waking unless they are written down, and people who keep a dream journal remember more dreams within a week or two simply because they are paying attention. This template opens with a free-write box for the dream itself, before anything else, then asks for the feeling, the people and places, and anything that keeps coming back. The recall and vividness ratings are there for anyone practicing lucid dreaming, where tracking is half the technique.
It is for the curious, for writers who mine dreams for material, for people working through recurring dreams with a therapist, and for lucid dreamers. The habit checklist is for the things that improve recall: no alarm, a reality check before bed, writing before moving. Keep the phone by the bed and write before you sit up.
How to use it
- Write before getting up, in the present tense, in fragments. Do not try to make sense of it yet.
- If you remember nothing, log that too. Recall improves when you keep the habit.
- Tag recurring people and places with the same words each time, so patterns are searchable.
- For lucid dreaming, note whether you realized you were dreaming and what triggered it.
What’s inside
1 free write · 3 prompts · 1 multiple choice · 2 ratings · 1 habit list. Every prompt is editable once it is in the app.
- The dream
- Everything I remember, before it fades free write
- Details
- How it felt
- People and places
- Anything recurring or strange
- Was I lucid? multiple choice
- How much I remember rating
- Vividness rating
- Recall habits habit list