So this is less of a serious "I need help" kind of question, and more just me wanting to open a little discussion. In some of my recent lucid dreams I have set out to investigate why, despite having practiced lucid dreaming for almost a decade and a half, (dipping in and out of various methods and intensities of practice), I have never been able to attain stable, consistent, and long-lasting periods of lucid dreams. In one such lucid dream, I was shown a large and sturdy building that existed as a dream archive. I knew the dream was telling me to compile all of the dreams I have ever recorded into a single secure and organized place.

I actually have three dream journals, and while there is some overlap, they don't all contain all of the same dreams. There is the dreamviews dream journal. Dreamviews plays host to most lucid dreams or non-lucid dreams I think are noteworthy or interesting. There is one on my old computer and a new one which I recently opened on my new computer. I did also at one point in the past have a pen-and-paper dream notebook, though it never functioned as a true journal and moreso a place to document practice and write notes on dreams which I could later describe in detail on the computer. I can type much faster than I can write by hand, and the ability to copy, paste, delete and add information is very helpful if I say, recall more details of a dream later on in the day.

Through the years I have noticed that there are different periods where my dreams focus on a particular theme or a particular dream sign or set of dream signs becomes relevant. So keeping these dreams organized feels like it would be kind of futile as dream signs that might have been solid lucid cues ten years ago no longer make appearances in my dreams. I also hate rereading old dreams, I find it incredibly boring. Doubly so when I am rereading non-lucid dreams or dreams which were not vivid, coherent, or were repetitive in nature. So I must ask for an outside perspective, do you think there is any value to organizing documentation of dreams from many years ago?

My second question is much easier to phrase. My original reason for splitting into multiple dream journals was that I felt uncomfortable with posting about some dreams online. Some dreams back then and now might have storylines or plot elements that reference personal details of my life that I would rather are not posted online. Even within the safe and open minded culture of a place like Dreamviews. I'm more so just wondering if I'm the only one, but does anyone else keep a second private dream journal off the site, or am I the only one?