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About this tool
Privately tag dreams and review recurring themes over time.
Dream Pattern Journal is a private dream log: you record a dream title and a free-text notes-and-tags field, and every entry is saved in this browser's local storage rather than to an account. Because the search box matches across the whole entry, tagging dreams with your own words — falling, teeth, that house, a person's name — turns the journal into a way to pull up every occurrence of a recurring theme later. It is for anyone tracking recurring dreams over months who does not want that material sitting on someone else's server.
Open Dream Pattern Journal on AltFTool — it loads instantly in your browser.
Type the dream into the Dream title and Dream notes and tags boxes, using one consistent word for each recurring theme.
Press Add record to write the entry to this browser's local storage, then type that theme word into the Search records box.
The Saved records heading shows how many entries matched; press Export JSON to download dream-pattern-journal.json.
There is no fixed tag list to maintain — the search matches anything in the title or notes, so a theme you only notice after fifty entries is still findable.
Entries are written to this browser's local storage as you add them, so a dream journal never becomes an account someone else can read.
Export the whole journal as a JSON file and import it back on another browser or device, so the log outlives any single machine.
In this browser's local storage, under a single key for this tool. They are not uploaded, but that also means clearing site data, using private browsing, or switching browser or device will leave them behind — export the JSON file if you want a copy that survives.
Type a consistent word into the notes field each time a theme appears — one word per theme works best — then search that word to pull up every matching entry. The count of results is shown next to the saved-records heading.
As soon as you wake, before getting up if you can, because dream recall fades quickly once you start moving and thinking about the day. A title plus a few fragments beats a polished account written hours later.
Dream content is not a diagnostic tool, and this journal makes no interpretation of what you write. If recurring dreams or nightmares are disturbing your sleep or distressing you during the day, a doctor or a qualified therapist is the right place to take the pattern — the exported journal can be useful material for that conversation.