Is anything wrong with keeping a dream journal?

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I want to try keeping a dream journal, just to pen down what I was dreaming about and maybe interpret it. Is anything wrong or new-age about that?
 
It’s fine to keep a dream journal for fun, but don’t try to interpret it.

My parish priest explained this to our Youth Group recently.

Dream interpretations are fake or otherwise Satanic. True, God has used dreams to grab someone’s attention but it’s rare. It happens maybe once or twice in your entire life, not every day. Your dreams don’t need to be interpreted, you would be bringing glory to Satan by spending too much focus on things extremely unrelated to God.
 
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I want to try keeping a dream journal, just to pen down what I was dreaming about and maybe interpret it. Is anything wrong or new-age about that?
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the journaling is fine, but not so sure about trying to interpret. I would not try anything too complex or use new age dream guides. What most people find helpful is to write down the details of the dream as soon as they wake. Later, when you simply read what you wrote, the meaning becomes clear especially as you look at the images for their literal meanings. The deep pscycho new age meanings some guides attribute are like trying to tell your future by reading the astrology page in your morning paper.

It is much simpler. Dreams are usually just the brain processing sensory (name removed by moderator)ut received during the day and the images, if you remember them, simply part of that process, and simply point to something relevant to those events. That can sometimes help clarify your thoughts on those events, but usually not much more than you could do on your own in conscious reflection.

If you are asking about spirituality, a much more beneficial process that makes much better use of that information is the daily examen, the Ignatian practice of reviewing the day, in prayer, before retiring.

example, I dream of being surrounded by dirty dishes and the more I wash, the higher the pile becomes.

I get to work, and my desk is piled high with problems, projects, things I have neglected or put off, mail, and I have to spend the day prioritizing and dealing with things. Nothing psycho or new age about that image, and nothing I could not have figured out without the dream.
 
I didn’t mean ‘interpret’ in the new age sense but rather get the gist of the dream, since my subconscious is a surrealist.
 
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