About Psychology of Dreams
What this is
Psychology of Dreams is a place to sit with a dream and find out what it may be telling you. It works as a guided conversation with one of today's most advanced AI models, working from a detailed method of dream interpretation written for this service, grounded in the theory and practice of dream work in depth psychology, a tradition developed and refined for more than a century.
You describe the dream, and you're asked about it, and about what is happening in your life right now, until its meaning starts to come into view. As you go, you'll pick up some of the ideas behind this work. How deep the conversation goes, and how much is explained, follows your pace and what you're ready to take in at that moment.
What it is not
This is a way of reflecting on your own life while learning how dream interpretation works by seeing it applied to your own dreams. It is not therapy and doesn't replace it, and it is not medical care, diagnosis or treatment.
It isn't a dream dictionary either. You won't be told that water means emotion or that falling means anxiety. A dream image has no fixed meaning; it means what it means in your life.
And it isn't help in an emergency.
Getting started
All you need is an email address and a password. We don't ask for your name, your phone number or anything else that identifies you, so you can use the service without ever saying who you are. It is for adults 18 and over.
Choose an email address you'll still be using a year from now. You may want to come back months later, when a new dream turns up, and that inbox is your only way in. A forgotten password is easy to fix, because we send a link to the inbox. A lost inbox can't be fixed, because there is no name or identity behind the account for us to check.
Once you're signed in, open the page called Read this from the menu. It walks you through your first session.
Cost and payment
You pay only for what you use. You buy credit, each exchange in a conversation uses a little of it, and credit never expires.
The smallest top-up is $10, and it's a good place to start: enough to bring a few dreams and see whether this suits you. The minimum is set there because on smaller payments the card fee takes a larger share of what you'd get. Dream work also has its own pace. After a dream opens something up, it needs time to settle, so credit tends to last.
There's no subscription of any kind: nothing daily, weekly, monthly or yearly, and nothing that renews. We can't charge your card on our own: every payment is one you start, and your credit is never topped up automatically. If you stop coming, there's nothing to cancel.
Payments go through Stripe, a widely used payment processor. You enter your card details on Stripe's page, never on ours, so we never see or store them. Charges appear on your statement as Psychology of Dreams, and your credit is always shown under My Account.
Privacy
We keep what the service needs to work: your email address, what you write (your dream journal and About Me), your conversations, and a record of your payments.
None of it is sold, used for advertising or published. A few outside companies each do one job for us: the AI provider that writes the replies sees your conversation so it can answer; Stripe processes payments; an email service sends your account emails; and a hosting company runs the servers.
From time to time, the people who build and run this service could read a sample of stored conversations, chosen at random, to make sure it works as it should and to improve it.
You decide what stays. How deleting works is explained below.
The full legal text is on the Terms & Conditions and Privacy page.
Deleting your account
You can delete a single dream or conversation from your dream journal whenever you like, or your whole account at once.
Deleting your account is final. Your dreams, your journal, your conversations, About Me and everything kept about them are erased permanently. There is no undo, no waiting period in which you could change your mind, and no copy set aside for support or safekeeping. If you delete your account and want it back tomorrow, the answer will be that it does not exist.
Two things are kept. One is your email address, which stays with the closed account, so it can't be used to sign up again. The other is the record of payments and credit used, which holds amounts and dates only, never anything from your dreams, and is kept because financial records have to be.
To keep the service safe from failures, it is backed up, and the backups are encrypted and kept only for a short time. If one is ever restored, your deletion is applied again straight away, so nothing you erased comes back.