My Dreams and Using Artificial Intelligence to Better Understand What the Dreams Mean and Say About Me
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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