Crowdsourcing App to Log Your Dreams
Like most people you’ve probably had an entertaining dream and then forgotten it almost as soon as the alarm clock has woken you up. Researchers believe that we forget about 95% of our dreams before we’ve even thrown off the duvet. Well, that could be all about to change with the invention of a new dream-catching app.
The BBC has featured an interview with Hunter Soik, a Korean-American living in New York who has developed a smartphone app that will allow people to record and share their dreams.
The SHADOW app provides escalating alarms that will gradually stir you from your slumber. When you are awake you immediately dictate your dream and the app will transcribe it.
If you can’t remember your dream SHADOW will ask a series of questions to prompt you.
One of the aims of this project is to create the largest dream database in the world. Of course dreams are inherently private things, but users can decide how far and wide they want to share their dreams. When dreams are shared with the crowd all personal data is removed.
SHADOW app
With all the information pouring into the app, Soik hopes it will help us collectively to understand more about the dream state. For individuals, the app will provide a searchable database of their own dreams. For example, after using the app for a while someone could type in “show me all the dreams about the beach I had in the last year”.
The benefits of this according to SHADOW are: “By combining daily tracking with scientific and psychological research, SHADOW can visualize and contextualize dreams and help users progress from simply recalling their dreams to understanding them.”
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