I encourage people to bring their own notepads and cameras. Take photos of things that inspire you. Jot down things that you want to do. Sketch here and there. I started keeping a notebook beside my bed when I was in highschool. I read somewhere that if you're bothered by your dreams each night, jot down your thoughts when you wake up. I never had the chance to have them interpreted but I knew that my dreams always meant something. I've always been in situations which I have already dreamt before. I have met people in real life which I have also met in my dreams. I don't know how do you explain those things.
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As I got older, the habit stuck bcos I couldn't be separated from my pen and paper. I wrote daily since 2000. I stopped having my dream notebook since I had to stick with one - my daily journal. I always had racing thoughts so it was best that I wrote them down. I do all sorts of bashing there. I call it my bitch book. I write there things I could not say out loud. When I was growing up, I had no one to talk to so I just wrote and wrote. My best friend insists that I give her my journals if I die. She wants to read all of them! Haha. I know someone who paints after each entry in her journal. I don't really have the time to do that. I've seen some of her mini-paintings. They weren't fantastic but they were meaningful.
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My journal is my core. It contains all my deepest & darkest secrets, my racing thoughts, everything. I encourage people to keep their little notebooks even if they blog. In the middle of the night, it helps when you have something there to keep you grounded.
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The point is we archive bcos we fear we might forget something.
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