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I'm trying to keep a dream journal, but when I wake up I keep having this cognitive block preventing me from writing my dreams down It will do anything necessary to prevent me from writing my dreams down. I regret this later every single time. Does anyone know how to prevent this? I don't think I can do it at that time, so it probably has to be something done beforehand, as I go to bed.
Can you speak about your dreams into a tape recorder, and transcribe them later?
I kept a dream journal for about 5 years. I think it (temporarily) increased recall of dreams. The most interesting thing I observed was that the recorded dreams were seasonally concentrated.
What kind of cognitive block? Do you not know what to write? Do you not think about recording your dream at the appropiate time? Do you feel like writing about your dream would be a bad thing?
The last one, sort of. It usually takes the form of, "You don't want THAT to be in your dream log, do you? You'd better skip it just this once. It's okay, you'll write down the next one. That dream sucked anyway, and you're already forgetting it besides. Also don't you have better things to do?"
All, of course, with the low-level realization that I know all of this is bullshit but I obey it anyway.