Keeping a dream journal can help you understand your subconscious.

Here, learn tips for how to keep a dream journal, according to pros.

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Obviously, those potential meanings are wide-ranging.

To help you sort all of this, you might consider using a dream journal.

What is a dream journal?

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Los Angeles–based psychotherapist and writer

When you record dreams, they can serve as markers of growth and change.

When you record dreams, they can serve as markers of growth and change.

6 tips for how to best use a dream journal

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Even if you dont remember your dream, I always encourage people to still document, says Gailing.

You want to [do this] because that is keeping the practice going.

Its still this attestation that [you]dodream.

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Dating and titling your entries might also be helpful as you review the entries youve input over time.

One way to frame the dream, she adds, is to ask, What is it calling for?

What needs tending to or expression?

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Los Angeles–based psychotherapist and writer

These patterns go beyond the dreams themselves, sometimes extending to how youre feeling during your waking hours.

If youre looking to do that, consider these three physical dream journals.

Each page also features a built-in dateline so you easily reference when you had each dream.

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and Where did your dream take place?

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