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Topic: Do you keep a journal?
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Faith
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posted January 03, 2015 08:32 PM
  
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MoonWitch
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posted January 03, 2015 09:12 PM
I do sometimes but I've been writing a novel so other writing tends to be pushed aside.I do keep a dream journal, tho.
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PixieJane
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posted January 03, 2015 09:40 PM
It helped me in small ways but generally speaking a day planner would've helped even more. Also, mine got lost or stolen which was upsetting to me and I've never started a new one...and glad I accounted for that possibility and was careful not to put anything that might serve as a signed confession in it.  However, one use only a journal was good for was help in "rewriting" my dreams. I'd journal the dreams, analyze them and then rewrite them (and try to add in some symbolism) to change the shape of the nightmares. And though it took a long while and I also used other methods it did work, including some of what I wrote in my journals of "how the next dream will be" showing up.  IP: Logged |
Barbiegirl19
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posted January 03, 2015 09:42 PM
I do. Tend to go there to vent if I need to. Used to write lyrics. Write about my goals for the year. I've written a few short stories. IP: Logged |
Faith
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posted January 03, 2015 10:03 PM
I had a dream I was Billy Ray Cyrus' best friend the other night. WTF, I never think about him. I thought of putting this in my journal and going all Jung on it, but.... Nahhhh  Thanks for your replies  IP: Logged |
Faith
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posted January 03, 2015 10:05 PM
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Originally posted by MoonWitch:
I do sometimes but I've been writing a novel so other writing tends to be pushed aside.
Good luck! I make movies in my mind and wonder if I could write them out while preserving the emotional charge I develop in them...that's something I might put in a journal. IP: Logged |
PixieJane
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posted January 03, 2015 10:28 PM
Last night I dreamed I was shirking my responsibilities to smoke a cigarette. While it's conceivable I might shirk a responsibility, I never smoked a cigarette in my life! (I did try one when I was 4, plus a cigar when I was about 21, and both times I about puked after one drag.) That and other elements make me wonder if some astral riptide pulled me into someone else's dreamscape again.  IP: Logged |
BellaFenice
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posted January 03, 2015 11:34 PM
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Originally posted by Faith:
I had a dream I was Billy Ray Cyrus' best friend the other night. WTF, I never think about him. I thought of putting this in my journal and going all Jung on it, but.... Nahhhh Thanks for your replies
Nah, Jung is overrated. Fromm is where its at. Once in a while I journal. Need to do it more often. I find writing to be very therapeutic and it helps me to pick out themes and trends that are evident in my writing. Problem is- I write 24/7 for school-there is no time to write anything else!
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Swanlake
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posted January 04, 2015 05:37 PM
I used to keep one, and it spanned a period of 3 years.
BUT I experienced a terrible betrayal a few years back. I was moving house and the father of my 2 kids "helped" with packing. Later I could not find it again. He had stolen it, even though he denied it. But I knew, because he said things during some big rows we had that he could only have known by reading it.
I was absolutely mortified.
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Valentine
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posted January 05, 2015 11:07 AM
No not a journal, but I have a daily planner that I write
in every day. I keep track of everything.IP: Logged |
Ceridwen
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posted January 05, 2015 01:58 PM
I used to write journals when I was youngr. Now in the internet days my emails to you, Faith (and to another friend), are my journal. 
Mostly. There is an odd exception though.
For a few years now I have scribbled now and then impressions after seeing Mr Sag, spread all over several journals I started and never finished. Last year though, just before the open air concert in june, I had stumbled across a small (really tiny) notebook, which actually has the Taj Mahal on its cover. It did not register with me then, but it was just so beautiful, I had to have that notebook.
And this one has stayed with me (though do not ask me where it is at the moment). I do always always always scribble down my impressions, events, things that stood out to me right when coming back to the hotel, so not more than an hour at most after the concert or musical or whatever I was attending. I do that so my imagination or even insecurities will not colour and modify what REALLY happened. But that is pretty much all. Oh and dreams, I tend to scribble down some more improtant dreams. Problem is my entries are all spread out over several journals and even files in my computer. lol Though trying to get last night`s dream off my mind.  IP: Logged |
Lei_Kuei
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posted January 06, 2015 02:39 PM
Yea I used to buy a day planner / journal almost ever year and fill it with both recorded dreams and random thoughts until every page was filled in However in the last few years I've been less interested in doing so, but I still have piles of note books around my desk that are filled with lists upon lists of computer programming bugs, completed tasks & hacks for my game hehe. I don't know how Id manage my work load without keeping track of such things in these hand written notes, there is just something aesthetically pleasing about it that works so much better than any kind of a note system I've tried to make on my computer. Its funny too, reading note books of mine from years ago, even just a half recorded dreams makes the full dream in its entirety return to me as if I had just woken up with it fresh in my mind... I guess everyone is different, but I'm pretty sure keeping note books is something Ill continue to do until the end of time
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Faith
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From: Bella's Hair Salon
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posted January 07, 2015 09:13 PM
I guess I am uncomfortable with my dreams when they get too warped, and there's a lot of that, so I don't want a dream journal. Though I would love to be able to do what Lei_Keui described.The privacy issue concerns me as well, which is a shame, since I've gone through phases of doing morning pages, and they are quite therapeutic and help me keep my mental landscape organized and well-lit. I also dabbled with the directives in the book Write It Down, Make It Happen. And another book called Getting Things Done...both of these highlight the importance of writing just to keep up with and refine one's goals. For practical matters I think these approaches are great...but that's not really journaling. For now I am just depositing whatever feels right in my book...it's a happy hodge-podge...the eclecticism isn't the most driven approach as far as worldly goals go, but I'm in a kinda of...quescient time of life..and I'm still just figuring out what's to be done, and how it's to be done. IP: Logged |
Faith
Knowflake Posts: 21731
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posted January 07, 2015 09:19 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Ceridwen:
I used to write journals when I was youngr. Now in the internet days my emails to you, Faith (and to another friend), are my journal.
Mostly.
Oh no! I thought you had everything in hard copy form, even more elaborate! I got attached to the thought of them existing. Oh well...I can cope.
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