I started out on dream journalling for my introduction to divination. I was a right old codger about it too: I got right into the discipline, wrote something every morning regardless of whether I had recall or not. Sometimes I'd just write how I was feeling when I woke up, sometimes I'd have about three pages worth of size twelve font on Word.
I read everything I could on the subject, listened to every account of dreams I heard, poured over books of symbols, caned the fuck out of my local secondhand shops' supply of Jung. I managed a few lucid dreams, used sleep paralysis to do some stuff, had a few synchronised dream/journeying experiments with a shaman friend, and noticed the difference in quality of vivid prophetic dreams.
I heartily recommend it. It gives you tons of useful self-awareness, gets you into manipulating and interpreting symbols, gives an edge of daily routine and discipline, fosters a relationship to your unconscious, and acts as a really useful diagnostic about your life. If you can learn to lucid dream you'll have access to another huge set of possibilities.
All that plus you won't necessarily have to subscribe to someone else' system: you'll be working as your own boss. Master all that and throw in some regular exercise and you may never need anything else.
Of course, that's just my recommendation based on what worked for me to get me into things. My growing fascination with dreams was probably my first proper step into magic (whatever that is), and I followed the trail from there, learning about whatever I felt drawn to along the way. All sorts of things suggested themselves for study, and gradually the areas that would be really fruitful for me started to stand ahead of the pack.
My advice, in a one-liner: do more of what you're already doing that seems to be working, and see where that leads you. |
