Diary is a very common writing style: everyone can take a diary talking about events, emotions, pains; but dream diary is something more; it is an open door on the subconscious and it is a valid help to understand if something in our life needs more attention.

Have you never considered the idea to write a diary and, in particular, a dream journal?

If you are asking yourself why you would to have one, well, maybe you don’t know that most parts of historical figures and celebrities take one and that a lot of innovations were inspired by Dream's intuitions.Write a diary is, in fact, a way to leave a sign of our experience, our pain and, why not, our dreams.To write a dream diary is not only this but it is even a very important way to improve our creativity; it’s a valid aid for the memory and a way to preserve the details of the things.

So, how we can create our dream journal?

First of all, we need to know something more about the dreams: usually, each person has 5 sleep cycles each night and, at the end of each; there is a moment of REM sleep. The most part of the people dream 100 minutes each night and it is easier to remember the dreams done early in the morning, so, close to the awakening.

The main steps to keep a dream journal are the following:

• Find a diary to use specifically to record the dreams.

• Write the dreams as soon as possible because they remain in mind for a very short period.

• Write everything you can remember and use the present tense and the first person (I am walking or I am talking, for example) without thinking about the grammar or pronunciation.

• Identify the main themes of the dream underlining locations, characters, objects, and emotions.

• Try to sketch some images of the dreams

• Give a title to the dreams: something simple, only to remember them easier.

• Try to give to the dreams your interpretation.

As we can understand, to keep a dream journal requires some self-discipline, but it is very important to help in recognizing recurrent patterns and important aspects needing of interpretation.At the beginning, it would be difficult to remember each particular of the dream but, step by step, the focus on the subconscious world will become deeper and it will be easier to remember more and more elements.So, if in the first pages of our diary we will be able to write only a few lines for each dream, with time, we can see that their descriptions became more detailed and complete.Talking instead, about dream’s interpretation, we have to say that, sometimes, it won’t be possible to interpret the dreams until we discover a recurrent pattern.

To recognize a pattern can help us to understand if, in our life, there is something need more attention and interpretation; if there is something that is creating us trouble!

The last but not less important thing is to remember that we have to keep the dream diary always with us, even when we are out for work or for a holiday because these particular situations can influence a lot our dreams or can help us on interpreting them.