I've been keeping a dream journal for the past several months. I've written about my dreams before here on Facebook and in my regular journals, but decided to make a dedicated dream journal because I wanted to see when I dream, what time I dream, and what phase of the moon I'm dreaming in. The one thing I've noticed is that many of my dreams, especially the more emotional ones, happen when the moon is 70-99% waxing/waning and almost full.
To quickly explain moon phases, in case you don't know, you have the new moon, which you can't see. Then you have the waxing moon, which is the crescent and then gibbous as it builds to the full. Then after the full moon it's called waning, which is gibbous going back to crescent until you reach the new moon again.
I've written down 22 dream journal entries so far. There have been zero entries for new moon, 2 for full moon, 8 for waning, and 12 for waxing. Gibbous was 12 and crescent was 8. But in those 8 crescents, only 3 were lower than 22%. So that means the bulk of my dreams take place closer to the moon being full.
You see, the moon is a lot more powerful than we humans give it credit for. It not only controls the tides, but our emotions as well. Ask any ER nurse, EMT, or a trucker and they will all tell you that the day before, the day after, but especially the day of a full moon is the craziest. Some refuse to even work on the day of a full moon. Personally, I won't even leave the house on a full moon if I can't help it. People just go crazy.
So my intent of the dream journal was to find that correlation between the moon and my dreams. It's still a work in progress and I'm constantly collating data, but I find it fascinating. I also would love to do a comparison chart on when my emotions are extreme to what the tides are at that point in time. Because the moon controls the tides and the tides are full of energy that contract and expand and I wonder if that has an effect on humans, or at least myself, because the ocean is my true home.
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