Recording Your First Dream
Capture a dream by typing or voice, give it a title, and save it to your journal.
Recording Your First Dream 📝
A great interpretation starts with a great description. This page shows you how to capture a dream in your own words - the more detail you give, the richer your reading will be.
Start a new dream
From the Dream Lab, click the New Dream button (or just start typing in the central input). You'll see a large text area - this is where your dream goes.
There's no right or wrong length. A few sentences is enough for a Direct Reading; a few paragraphs give the Full DreamNav Experience style more to work with.
Write it in your own voice
Describe the dream the way you'd describe it to a trusted friend:
- •What happened - the events, in the order you remember them.
- •What you saw - places, people, animals, colors, objects.
- •What you felt - emotions during the dream and on waking.
- •What stood out - the one image or moment that felt most charged.
- •Any waking-life context - what's been on your mind lately.
You don't need perfect grammar or a linear story. Dreams rarely are. Write what you remember, in whatever order it comes.
Tip: Write it down as soon as you wake up. Dream memory fades fast - within minutes, most of the detail is gone. Keep your phone or a notebook by your bed.
Use voice input
Prefer to speak your dream? Click the microphone icon next to the text area and describe your dream out loud. DreamNav transcribes your speech into text, which you can edit before saving.
Voice input is especially useful first thing in the morning, when typing feels like too much effort and the dream is still fresh.
Give it a title
Add a short, meaningful title - something that will help you recognize this dream later in your journal. Good titles capture the feeling or the key image:
- •✅ "The flooded house"
- •✅ "Lost in a city I didn't recognize"
- •✅ "My grandmother handed me a key"
You can rename a dream at any time from the sidebar's action menu, so don't overthink it.
Save and continue
When you're happy with the description, click Continue or Interpret. DreamNav saves your dream as a draft and takes you to the interpretation picker, where you'll choose how you want it read.
Drafts are safe. If you close the window before interpreting, your dream is saved as a draft in the sidebar. You can come back to it any time.
What makes a good dream entry
| Do | Avoid |
|---|---|
| Include emotions and sensations | "I had a weird dream" |
| Name specific people and places | Vague "someone" and "somewhere" |
| Note colors, numbers, textures | Skipping the striking details |
| Mention how you felt on waking | Only describing the plot |
What's next
- •Choose how to interpret it → Choosing Your Interpretation Style
- •See what happens next → The Interpretation Journey