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Sit down with your journal every day and keep your hand moving, and before you think about it you’ll find you have become a writer. Whether the world knows that, or whether you choose to share your writing with the world, is secondary. You are writing for your Self, and without fear of the consequences. You are giving your writing muscles a workout, and you’ll find it tones up your whole system.

Writer and creativity coach Robin O’Neal Kissel shares this account of what keeping a dream journal has meant for her:

I have found the practice of journaling my dreams has significantly impacted the way in which I write about waking reality. As I write a night dream as a story, it calls on me to take my waking writer’s mind back into the world of the dream on a quest to capture the imagery, the emotion, the sequence… the very texture of the dream experience. In writing a dream narrative, I strive to honor fully the depth of the experience of my dream, owning it and making it real with words.

I have gained much as a dreamer via this process, because that which is honored and owned multiplies and expands, blooming in the nurturing, thriving with attention. I have also gained much as a writer. I approach the act of journaling my daily events as if they, too, are a dream — the dream that happens on this side of my consciousness. I explore the events of my waking life with an eye to capturing the imagery, emotion, sequence, and texture, telling it as a story, seeking to comprehend symbolism and synchronicity, just as I would a dream. In both instances, I take myself back into the scene unfolding and narrate in the present tense — the act of writing in present tense requires that I be fully present to the story unfolding. Often, recounting the experience this way is tantamount to “reentry,” and I’m astounded by the new comprehension or creative stirrings of forward momentum that transpire within, and because of, the process itself.