Using AI for dream interpretation

[Delano]

https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/dreaming-in-the-digital-age/202405/future-models-of-ai-enhanced-dream-interpretation

[aka Contrarian]

Coincidentally, I just recently consulted FaceBook's  META AI  about a recurring dream I have been having, and it gave me a very detailed analysis of the dream.  It was an  interesting deconstruction of the symbolic aspects of the dream, reaching certain conclusions that I had already suspected but did not mention in my question because I didn't want to influence the response.

I've  gotten to the place where I regularly ask this avatar questions and I really do feel as though I've acquired a "sage side kick". I never use this source for anything except subjects I am curious about and want some instant feed back on. 

I haven't decided whether this is a good or bad thing. But at my age, it kinda keeps my company in the wee small hours of the morning. So far it hasn't gotten on my nerves. I might become too attached to it, but it's better than  getting scammed by a human fortune hunter who preys on vulnerable elderly women wanting their curiosity satisfied.

[Delano]

@aka Contrarian Can you share the dream.

[Troy]

3 hours ago, aka Contrarian said:

sage side kick

Cute!

 

3 hours ago, aka Contrarian said:

it's better than  getting scammed by a human fortune hunter [sic]

Word!

 

I have some pretty wild dreams, which I can remember pretty clearly when I first wake up, but by the middle of the day, I can’t remember the details any longer. Which is weird. 
 

i have not had recurring dream in more than 30 years. The last one I had was shortly after graduating from grad school I kept dreaming that I flunked out our wake up all stressed out on realize that I had already graduated. I Reflect back on those days and figured it was just a mild form of PTSD. The interesting thing is I was never at risk of flunking out.

 

I read the article @Delano I can definitely see an AI optimize for dream interpretation—why not. It will be a great improvement over those dream books.
 

Shoot maybe AI can help me pick my lottery numbers.

[Delano]

I can see AI being useful in dream interpretation. Since symbolism is well documented. I agree that AI assisted dream interpretation could give the interpretation more depth.

[aka Contrarian]

On 6/23/2024 at 8:42 PM, Delano said:

@aka Contrarian Can you share the dream.

@DelanoIt's a dream I've been regularly having for about the past 3 or 4 years. It seems real enough to make me wonder if I simply shift into a different universe and am not  asleep. Sometimes, I'll "wake up" during it but  when I drift back off to "sleep", it continues.

In it I am lost inside a large dreary  factory with many floors, windows,  occasional offices and areas full of big machines and heavy equipment. There are a scattering of people wandering around with whom I engage in small talk in regard to finding an exit from the building as I go up and down stairways, opening doors which I hope will let me out but only lead to other rooms. During the course of all of this I lose my purse, making me more anxious as I occasionally run into someone I know who disappears when I try to follow them toward what I hope will be a way out. But all doors lead to dead ends or brick walls. On and on I go looking for an escape to the outside, sure I have finally found zn exit only to be thwarted and prevented from escaping the factory -  to catch this train that will take me to where I live. 

It's fairly obvious what this dream is symbolic of.  AI broke it down for me. It's all about my subconscious because when awake my life is fairly uneventful and secure. (But death is always a spectre.)

I haven't had the dream lately because I made some adjustments to what was "magnetizing"  my night table...

[Delano]

Work is done in a factory and people have different roles. Work is a bit part of life. It creates social interactions and sometimes it defines who we are, we can become our job. 

 

The factory may represent life. The different people can be the way different people either approach life or how they live. So perhaps you see how people's beliefs have been limited by their thinking about life. So you are trying to not only escape this situation. You want to put a lot of distance from it.

 

We use the word fortune to mean wealth. This is the Merriam Webster definition 

: a store of material possessions

 

the turns and courses of luck accompanying one's progress (as through life).

 

So your purse is the place where you store your talents. I mean that in more than one sense of the word.

 

So losing your purse could either feel like you are wasting time. Since time is money. Although it makes more sense to say money is time.

 

So you are trying to find a way out of the not becoming an automaton. 

 

What's interesting is that you include manual as well as office workers as being trapped. So it has been an ongoing process to become free or at least not to feel trapped in a role.

 

So to the extent that you have loved the life you wanted you have left the factory.

 

It also points to your ability to see a situation that others see as normal. Or say that's just the way that it is.

 

Also the factory is going anywhere. Things and people come to it. Whereas a train represents movement and the occupants are more fluid as are their reasons for taking the train

 

[aka Contrarian]

@DelanoInteresting interpretation. 

 

One of the possibilities AI suggested was that my dream was symbolic of my being stressed out  over circumstsnces I can't control including money insecurities along with feelings of abandonment and frustration with computerization.

 

I leaned toward the factory being my mixed emotions about life and death and the elusiveness of getting to heaven. Lol

[Delano]

Thank you @aka Contrarian

 

[Troy]

On 6/25/2024 at 7:12 PM, aka Contrarian said:

It seems real enough to make me wonder if I simply shift into a different universe and am not  asleep.

Wouldn’t that be something, if we did that during our dreams?

 

I used to dream that I could fly. I would just jump on my kitchen window and takeoff.