I was thinking of switching from writing my dreams at night to useing a voice recorder. This is because even after a few hours sleep I wake up to go bathroom and jot down notes from the dream I was having. As soon as I look at the screen, (and yes I already use a blue light filtered screen plus orange lenses) I think that my body kind of jolts awake again. Sometimes I fall back asleep alright but other times like tonight I think the light keeps me up or wakes me back up too much. I use it as dim as possible and like I said with layers of blue light filters. Even so I think it wakes me up. I am pretty sensitive to light and sound of and kind so that would make sense.

So I want to hook up a voice recorder by my bed and actually have it run all night. This way I don't even have to press a button to start it. My voice recorder can be plugged in and has over 24 hours of storage space.

The next day i would import that audio into audacity and then clip out the silent parts. Then transcribe it in more detial if needed.

One big fear is that I would lose details by not writing it since writing it seems to bring up other details. And another big fear is that I will wake up and some how the recorder mal functioned and none of my dreams are accessible.

However I am getting quite tired of insomnia and I think it is relate to the light, even the dim filtered light.

I actually think it also might be cool to be in total darkness all night instead of any interruption with light every few hours. Even if the light isnt the only problem, the complete darkness might provide some kind of deeper sleep and dreaming. Then all I have to do is reach for the recorder instead of getting up to write.

I wonder if anyone has any thoughts or experiences on this idea. If I try it I might use this thread as a place for me to post my comments on the practice (the following day of course, when its light out!)

It might also be interesting to make other voice notes to listen to the next day since at night is when a lot of major concerns can arise. So by making a voice note over night, I could listen the following day and address it hopefully eliminating insomnia


this journal will be for just my notes on the process of VR DJing and what it is like to make the switch, comments on if I sleep better, etc