Hey, I also did a lot of work on dreams - I have also journaled my dreams for years and had therapy at the same time. I got super into them, read a bunch about them, even did a psychology masters to spend time researching them. I couldn't find theory that matched with my experience so I wrote this paper on them:

"A Suggestion for a New Interpretation of Dreams: Dreaming Is the Inverse of Anxious Mind-Wandering."

https://psyarxiv.com/k6trz

Also your project is awesome!

Hey Joshua, thanks for your kind comment! Very interesting thesis in your paper.

Do you think that besides as a framework for anxiety diagnosis, this could suggest lucid dreaming as part of the therapeutic treatment? Consciously inducing lucidity and choosing confrontation of the dream scenario rather than defaulting to avoidant behavior?

Wow this is amazing. I've experienced myself lucid dreaming only once, and it was amazing.

Keep it going. If I had an iPad or something better to write on after waking up I'd definitely use it.

Thanks! Definitely, making lucid dream induction a little bit easier for me was one of the main drivers to work on the application

So relatable. I have notes of most of my dreams from last 2-3 months(mainly) and some from last few years. I might sign up. Does it only work with browser or any offline thing?

Browser, desktop, mobile, ... I'm supporting all of them because of my typical process starts with taking sloppy notes on my mobile phone and then editing & annotating them on my desktop...

Is there a proven way to remember your dreams? I’ve read that we dream every night but I usually can’t remember nothing.

1. Set your intention as you are falling asleep by repeating “tonight I’m going to remember my dreams”.

2. When you wake up, don’t move! Stay in bed for 5-10 minutes and try to remember. Once you remember one thing try to ask yourself what happened before or after.

3. Dream journal.

I practiced the above back i. High school. Went from occasionally remembering a dream to remembering about 4-5 a night. Some small snippets and others longer. Was really incredible and I plan to try it again.

Dedicate 30-40 days and see what happens!

In addition to the tips of the other commenters:

- The #1 way to remember more dreams is to be interested in them! The only personality trait correlated with high dream recall is "openness to experience" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openness_to_experience#Dream_r...). If you want to remember dreams, first consider WHY you want to remember them. Hone into that curiosity and strengthen it.

- Second best tip I can think of is: more sleep! REM periods get longer in the later cycles of your sleep, meaning a higher chance of dreams.

- Also, if you really really want to recall dreams (and perhaps induce lucid ones) and you don't mind being tired the day after, try interrupting your sleep at ~90 min intervals (the average length of a sleep cycle) with a (silent) alarm clock - or raise a baby :)

- Finally, quit smoking weed if applicable, as it suppresses REM sleep ;-)

meditation.

do a 10-day retreat or some other intensive period of learning with a teacher

and then from place of proficiency, continue the practice on your own.

you’re likely to begin having wild/intense/vivid dreams on days in which you meditate.

(1-2+ hours per day)