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You'd be forgiven for thinking that dream journal apps and online dreamsharing were a recent phenomenon. Especially with the emergence of AI and large language models, new dream interpretation apps are popping up all over the place.
But check out these articles, and you'll see that for as long as dreams, computers and the internet have coexisted, there's been a dream to digitize the unconscious. Long before ChatGPT could interpret your dream, there were programs that allowed you to enter your own meaning for symbols and combined them, ways to share your dreams with others online, and much more.
Curtiss Hoffman breaks down the frequency of musical elements in his dreams, using his own database program.
Ann Kruglak discusses her concept of "Intentional Dreaming", how it differs from dream control and dream incubation, and introduces her dreaming software CD, "Interactive Dreaming".
An exchange which took place across DNJ issues about the possibility of replacing 3x5 index cards with a computer program for dream journaling, and the metaphoric significance of high technology in dreams.
