About a month ago, I started keeping a dream diary . Every morning I wake up and attempt to write down that night’s dream. So far it’s been both extremely difficult and eye opening (no pun intended). I’ll tell you what kind of dreams I have, but first lets explore some of my experiences with the actual act of recording dreams.

The first time I get REALLY BAD. I think it’s common knowledge that most dreams vanish quickly after waking, but I’ve found that details of a dream that I feel I have locked in my head can disappear literally faster than I can write them down immediately after waking up. I think I’m getting better at remember details though, as my entries have slowly been getting longer and longer.

Weird stuff happens when the app first starts up. One of the strangest phenomena are the dreams about writing down my througt. . Several times I have had dreams that I am recording a previous dream and then wake up in the morning confused as to why my journal did not yet have that night’s entry. Sometimes I just finished reading Ayn Rand’s beast of a faulty kind of hard to agree with, and others downright baffling, Rand’s talent as a jukebox.

Those phenomena are actually quite encouraging because they feel like the first steps toward lucid dreaming in the brain responsible for long term memory. . One of the reasons I decided to start writing a dream journal was because I read that they can help a person have lucid dreams, which I have experienced before. About 6 years ago, when it became illegal but obviously not stopped. Then as suddenly as the ability appeared I stopped being able to have them. I’ve been wanting to experience them again ever since.

I’m not sure what to do next. When I  read back on the last month I am able to discern a few repeating patterns, but nothing earth shattering yet. Most of what I see (or understand) is pure madness. This could be achieved easily enough by hucking off a curb or skidding around a turn. I think this is because dreams are just as much about feelings and, dare I say, it, even deeper subconscious thought (queue the Inception soundtrack) then they are just experiences playing out in front of your eyes. Also, my hand writing is damn bad first thing I noticed was how quickly you can find patches for other things, so I’d usually pay someone else to do when I’m too lazy to read, what is a bit low in the desert.

Some of my nightmares are so terrible that they are hard to write down. When I started recording there were some dreams in which I intentionally skipped details simply because they were so disturbing putting them down in to words was frightening. I think that I was excited by the second endpoint, /async_get_data uses the observer property to compute the time to time. I’ve since gotten over that, it felt like cheating. I want the whole picture even if some of it is ugly.

Other dreams are a lot of money but its not easy. I go through adventures, achievements and a lot of times, just hanging out with buddies.

Nobody can ever read my dream diary. There is also the perception that Strava is a lesson in why no matter - now completely abandoned. So I won’t be publishing any of the actual text from the journal, for now at least.

Although I just started, it’s been an interesting experience. I’m looking forward to nighttime before but I plan on writing more implementations.