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I often type my journal reports directly into a computer to save the time required for transcription from a manuscript version and to get around the problem of finding it hard to decipher my own handwriting. When I write by hand, however, I find there’s an artist in me who wants to come bursting through. Suddenly the pages facing my text reports are filled with drawings that may then demand to be colored in or painted. Some of these drawings occupy successive panels like pages from a graphic novel. The famous movie director Federico Fellini, who started out as a cartoonist, kept dream journals that are primarily visual.

Many dream journalers find they have a poet inside. Or a songwriter. Sometimes a whole poem or song is delivered within a dream or in that fluid in-between zone of sleep-wake, dorveille. Some dream reports, with a little editing, effortlessly turn into poems. Every dream contains a story; some want to be stories in the fuller and finished sense, and journaling will get you there.