A little pie graph shows how often (100%) I’m the main hero in my nightly adventures, and possible themes and weirdness scale, both as of now not available. On the other hand, a nifty plot at the top left charts the degree of pleasantness (or unpleasantness) of my dreams over time, and their frequency, while a visual “dreaming tree” also me to quickly and visually grasp the number of recorded dreams thus far. And while it’s neat that you are immediately see averages and results (like July and Tuesday was my dreamist month, day) it doesn’t really speak much to me when I’ve only entered in three dreams. Here I’d add that it would be nice to include some themes, or maybe make use of dream architypes to add more personalizable categories. And my dreams are mostly yellow, and veering on the orange side: With three dreams currently in stock, it appears that I’ve lately dreamt of dogs and chairs twice, while file cabinets only once. The more dreams I record on this thing, the more potential patterns I see. Perhaps the post-beta version can tackle this. DB could add a feature that enables you to place emphasis on richer memories, adding a new dimension to dream recording. While it’s cool to track colors and see if you tend to dream more “yellow” or “blue,” what about those dreams where colors are lost to us and only a feeling remains? How do you graph sensations? Also, some parts of our dreams are more vivid than others. On the other hand, it is hard to convey dreams in a graphical interface (particularly the ordering of such abstract events), and the moods could be oversimplified. The features are open-ended and require minimal information and all the questions (colors, moods, etc.) are optional. Dreams are quickly forgotten, and with this app I found it fairly pain-free to quickly ‘capture’ the vital information as soon as I got up. I found the ‘adding a dream’ feature to be quite easy to use, simple, and a quick way to record the gist of my dreams. Give it a title and story, and bam, there’s my first recording: I can then add, if I want, tags to people, places, and things. It also lets me optionally include what colors the dream evokes and whether I’m the main character.
The ‘add a dream’ feature allows me to record the dream’s date and mood (pleasant, neutral, unpleasant), emotions (surprise, fear, disgust, anger, sadness, or joy). Logging in brings you to the home screen, equipped with a chart tracking your previously recorded late-night musings (degree of pleasantness versus time). I set out to see if I could ditch my dream journal for this app, and was pleasantly surprised.
Operating from San Francisco, Italy, and Switzerland, the startup aims to take traditional dream journaling to the next level by giving users a virtual platform to record and chart their dreams. “Dreams take us on a journey of self-discovery and reveal our true self,” says DB founder Umberto Prunotto, and he hopes the mobile app, currently in a beta version, will help people better collect this often-lost information.
Remember that weird dream? You know, the one involving natives, an abandoned IKEA store, and infinite columns of used file cabinets? OK, maybe not, but if you used Dreamboard you would not only keep track of those weird (and not so weird) dreams but also see patterns in your late-night subconscious musings.
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