kirennia
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Okay so I've never bothered with anything like a diary before, I'm 21 and have quite a busy timetable but have had a potentially nice thought of what to do in terms of a diary! If I'm honest, the idea of a straight up diary bores the hell out of me so I thought of this instead:
I'm a bit of an insomniac and seem to have problems in the transition period between dreaming and waking up back into reality when I often act very strangely have been known to do everything from shout at my friends and storm out after telling them I was going to kill them, to telling people how much I love the shade of green on the wall. This I thought would make an interesting read to see how I reacted and would help me be able to look in depth at my own head, mainly just for a laugh but also to try and overcome my sleeping problems if possible.
My idea involves having 2 pages set out for each day of the year and one for the end of each month. The left hand page will be blank and the right page would be lined. During each day I would when I wake up, on the left hand page draw the first thing that comes into my head, whether it be something related to what I had just dreamt or not. On the right hand page I would write down in as much detail as possible what had happened in my dream. At the end of each month I could create a collage made of all of the pictures I had drawn throughout that month.
I played with the idea previously and had some bizarre results despite only doing it for a few days. If anyonelse has ever tried something similar to this, I'm sure you'd have noticed some very strange things when you read back over what you've wrote to do with your dream. The first time I did it, 3 weeks later I could still remember the dream as if it were a real life event which had taken place yet when I read back to myself what I had wrote, I remembered more and more strange little details which were in the text and made so much sense looking back.
Dreams are stored in a temporary part of your mind and are created from a jumble of your memories from parts which maybe you had from when you were a child, or something which happened the day before. Not only this but every face you will ever see in a dream, you have seen before in real life! This is why we forget dreams no matter how much we can try to remember them, unless we write them down to read back at a later date. Then it can jiggle up your head and make you remember previously discarded information about a particular nights sleep.
And ideas on how to improve this or how to go about it? I'm definitely going to try something like this when the new year comes around but I'm just not so sure about how to tackle it. Blank pages could be a little annoying but I guess that's just something everyone who has ever written a diary has had to deal with.
Have added a couple of paragraphs all over which may not add to the flow of the post but am sure you get what I'm talking about anyways. Off to bed now though, cya tomoro, same time
I'm a bit of an insomniac and seem to have problems in the transition period between dreaming and waking up back into reality when I often act very strangely have been known to do everything from shout at my friends and storm out after telling them I was going to kill them, to telling people how much I love the shade of green on the wall. This I thought would make an interesting read to see how I reacted and would help me be able to look in depth at my own head, mainly just for a laugh but also to try and overcome my sleeping problems if possible.
My idea involves having 2 pages set out for each day of the year and one for the end of each month. The left hand page will be blank and the right page would be lined. During each day I would when I wake up, on the left hand page draw the first thing that comes into my head, whether it be something related to what I had just dreamt or not. On the right hand page I would write down in as much detail as possible what had happened in my dream. At the end of each month I could create a collage made of all of the pictures I had drawn throughout that month.
I played with the idea previously and had some bizarre results despite only doing it for a few days. If anyonelse has ever tried something similar to this, I'm sure you'd have noticed some very strange things when you read back over what you've wrote to do with your dream. The first time I did it, 3 weeks later I could still remember the dream as if it were a real life event which had taken place yet when I read back to myself what I had wrote, I remembered more and more strange little details which were in the text and made so much sense looking back.
Dreams are stored in a temporary part of your mind and are created from a jumble of your memories from parts which maybe you had from when you were a child, or something which happened the day before. Not only this but every face you will ever see in a dream, you have seen before in real life! This is why we forget dreams no matter how much we can try to remember them, unless we write them down to read back at a later date. Then it can jiggle up your head and make you remember previously discarded information about a particular nights sleep.
And ideas on how to improve this or how to go about it? I'm definitely going to try something like this when the new year comes around but I'm just not so sure about how to tackle it. Blank pages could be a little annoying but I guess that's just something everyone who has ever written a diary has had to deal with.
Have added a couple of paragraphs all over which may not add to the flow of the post but am sure you get what I'm talking about anyways. Off to bed now though, cya tomoro, same time
