Welcome to Dream Journals!
Curated by Tyler and Nicolle, this is our collective place to read, share, and connect on the stories, images, and experiences that guide us through our nights. Subscribe to us for regular shares of our community’s musings on dreams.
What does Dream Journals mean to you?
Tyler: Dreams are a tool in navigating my feelings about my waking life and a vital source of my creativity. Creating Dream Journals is my way to share with you the colorful strokes of my mind while I attempt to tune into my inner self.
Nicolle: I’m a private person. Dream Journals is Tyler’s way of forcing me to open up and write more often. Let’s see if it works.
Dreams are strange. Manifestations of our subconscious mind or messages from above, they’re short hallucinations that most of us can't even remember having by the time we wake up. We come up with theories on what they mean, trying to assign specific meaning to every token found within a dream. They’re used as plot devices in storytelling or as ice-breakers in small talk.
There are stress dreams, wet dreams, and nightmares. Some dreams are so mundane that they leave you wondering if you really did go out to get ice cream after dinner yesterday.
Dream Journals is devoted to our musings on dreams. Sometimes, we’ll relate a dream as-is. Perhaps we’ll use our dreams as a starting point for short fiction. Or maybe we’ll even get meta with it and share our larger thoughts on dreams.
Submitting to Dream Journals
While curated by and born of Tyler and Nicolle’s minds, Dream Journals is intended as a collaborative project. We will share our dream with you and hope that our readers feel inspired to do the same. If you have a dream you want to tell us about, we’d love to feature you as a guest writer. Email us at tylerarmey@gmail.com with your submissions, or click the button below!
Our guidance for shares is that they are complete when it feels complete. Make it your own — narrative, analysis, short or long (although 500+ words are preferred).
We can’t wait to dig deep into our dreams with you. Sweet dreams!
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