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Ach. Three days past my self-assigned due date. Two of them weren't my fault I promise 
I'll start with what I DO think is useful in this book (at least what I think benefited me personally) but I will say up front that dreaming is one of the most private areas of our lives and interpretation is something we need pray about (God gives the interpretation) so reading books about it that go beyond general structure/discipline are most likely in error and one should be quite cautious.
What helped me and what I think could be useful to most is to be more attentive to detail and what God "may" be saying (I don't think every dream is a God dream).
So for example. What was the dream about? Who was in it? What were you doing? Did you specifically hear anything? What point of view was it in? First person, third, etc.?
In the book he gave a general format along those lines for recording which I followed for years until I developed my own just by maturation (not intentionally, it just happened lol).
I'll get more detailed into his formatting later perhaps but "theme" "title" (if any) "focus" "sub focus" "positive or negative" "color Y/N" "date" "recurring?" "category" are how the pages are structured.
Most of which are mildly useful. Not every dream really even has a "title" and it may be that there is only one main focus and the sub focus is just fluff/general subconscious feedback.
I'm disinterested in putting anyone's dreaming into a box or hindering them in any way so I don't want to be too specific on how things work for me but writing is an excellent way to aid with recall.
Sometimes just one word written down can trigger the entire dream (that you only vaguely remember but want to) for me at least. That's also something he mentioned in the book that I agree with practically.
It's baffling how it works tbh. Sometimes an event during the day or a stray memory will trigger recall and then writing can bring out details or put them into more focus. It's interesting.
Last aspect of the book that was neutral and I would put forward is different ways of recording dreams. He didn't mention audio recording of dreams but he did do "linear" and "non-linear"
So for example: Drawing a picture in the form of a storyboard may be one person's method (I've done this a few times) or some sort of bubble idea chart. I could illustrate or photocopy them if you'd like. I think it's neat because everyone's brains work differently with this.
Working from this as a base was helpful for me starting out if nothing else. I'd like to share about my own process and methods but I get more and more leery of doing that as time passes for some reason. Maybe that'll change at some point though.
I'll start with what I DO think is useful in this book (at least what I think benefited me personally) but I will say up front that dreaming is one of the most private areas of our lives and interpretation is something we need pray about (God gives the interpretation) so reading books about it that go beyond general structure/discipline are most likely in error and one should be quite cautious.
What helped me and what I think could be useful to most is to be more attentive to detail and what God "may" be saying (I don't think every dream is a God dream).
So for example. What was the dream about? Who was in it? What were you doing? Did you specifically hear anything? What point of view was it in? First person, third, etc.?
In the book he gave a general format along those lines for recording which I followed for years until I developed my own just by maturation (not intentionally, it just happened lol).
I'll get more detailed into his formatting later perhaps but "theme" "title" (if any) "focus" "sub focus" "positive or negative" "color Y/N" "date" "recurring?" "category" are how the pages are structured.
Most of which are mildly useful. Not every dream really even has a "title" and it may be that there is only one main focus and the sub focus is just fluff/general subconscious feedback.
I'm disinterested in putting anyone's dreaming into a box or hindering them in any way so I don't want to be too specific on how things work for me but writing is an excellent way to aid with recall.
Sometimes just one word written down can trigger the entire dream (that you only vaguely remember but want to) for me at least. That's also something he mentioned in the book that I agree with practically.
It's baffling how it works tbh. Sometimes an event during the day or a stray memory will trigger recall and then writing can bring out details or put them into more focus. It's interesting.
Last aspect of the book that was neutral and I would put forward is different ways of recording dreams. He didn't mention audio recording of dreams but he did do "linear" and "non-linear"
So for example: Drawing a picture in the form of a storyboard may be one person's method (I've done this a few times) or some sort of bubble idea chart. I could illustrate or photocopy them if you'd like. I think it's neat because everyone's brains work differently with this.
Working from this as a base was helpful for me starting out if nothing else. I'd like to share about my own process and methods but I get more and more leery of doing that as time passes for some reason. Maybe that'll change at some point though.
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