For years now I’ve been having really incredible dreams, the kind you want to tell people about the next day. In fact, I do tell people about them and everyone agrees my dreams are more intense and more vivid than most people’s.
I have been keeping notebooks with my dreams in them for a while. Lately I’ve felt like I should publish these on the interwebs — maybe because the act of sharing them more widely would feel like analysis, maybe because paper seems kind of dead in this day and age. In any case, I finally set up a blog.
I have a few guidelines I’m going to try and follow:
- The post itself is going to be as accurate a description of the dream as I can recall. I’m going to try and force myself to be completely accurate, without editing out any of the really embarrassing parts (though I’ll be tempted and I can’t promise I won’t ever give in.)
- Any commentary I have I will put in a comment on the post. I’ll often provide my own analysis, I think.
- I’ll try to write the post as soon as I can, but it sometimes takes me until mid-day to smooth out all the strands of the dream.
- I’ll also be going back in time through my old notebooks to document previous dreams. This will take some time, and will also mean that the blog grows in reverse more that it grows forward.
- I’m going to tag the posts with common themes. This is another key reason I want to do this, so I can cross-reference between dreams more easily than on paper.
- All people will be noted just by first name, so as not to be too obvious about who I’m referencing. But everyone knows who they are.
