Nobody really knows what dreams are.
We know that they arise while we sleep, but there is still no single explanation that accounts for everything we experience in them.
Science can describe some of what happens in the sleeping brain when we dream. Psychology offers different ways of thinking about dreams in relation to memory, emotion and experience. Across time and cultures, people have built whole worlds of myths, symbols and interpretations around them.
But the dream world is a strange world. We don't usually know what to make of it right away — if at all.
What's more, when we try to share our dreams with others, we soon realise they seldom resonate with anyone quite as they do with us. But dreams rarely need an audience.
In dreams, we see worlds that transform before our eyes. People, places and objects change. It can feel like an abstract painting that, without being immediately obvious, stirs all sorts of emotions in us.
And then we wake. An entire world quietly disappears — so vivid that it feels impossible to forget, until somehow we do. But some fragments remain.
DreamMirror was created as a place for those fragments. With DreamMirror, you can interpret them from different perspectives, observe them over time, or use them as creative inspiration.
Your archive becomes more than a collection of individual dreams. It becomes a collection of puzzles that might reveal something about the mysterious, fantastical world that wakes when you go to sleep — a world that would otherwise be remarkably easy to lose.
Perhaps dreams give a voice to things we cannot quite say while awake — or to parts of ourselves we are not entirely aware of.