My Dreams and Using Artificial Intelligence to Better Understand What the Dreams Mean and Say About Me
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Richard Torian
December 2025
A. Introduction
My sleep pattern has been in recent years of sleeping about 90 minutes and then waking up. It occurred to me that when I woke up that I had just had a dream that I could remember and characterized in some detail. This led me to thinking how interesting and useful it might be for me to record on a pad on my bedside table what I was experiencing in the dream such as emotions and feelings, activities, locations, other people, and objects.
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So, from September 2025 to December 2025, at the time of waking up, I wrote down what I could remember from the dream I just had.
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My goals in doing this is to use my dreams to obtain a better understanding of what I was dreaming and why and how this understanding might be helpful to me. Also, I wanted to obtain a sense of what dreaming is all about and why we do it.
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In Section B. Data, I provide a table providing what I recorded on the pad next to my bed upon waking up and remembering a dream. The table includes: the emotions and feelings that I recorded about the dream, activity in the dream, location of the dream, others in the dream, and objects in the dream. For many dreams I was not able to identify emotions/feelings, locations, others, and objects in the dreams. All dreams did have an activity that I was able to record.
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In Section C. Artificial Intelligence Analysis, I ask questions of the ChatGPT Artificial Intelligence tool to help me reach my goals identified above. I turned to the ChatGPT tool hoping that it would assist me in my analysis and reaching my goals. The ChatGPT responses to my questions are indented.
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And in the final Section D. Conclusions, I provide conclusions related to my goals (provided above) and to the usefulness of the ChatGPT tool in helping me to reach my goals.
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