Exploring Dream Interpretation with ChatGPT

I have a very vivid dream life, and pretty much remember my dreams the next morning.

Years ago, my brother introduced me to dream interpretation, and suggested that I explore it to understand myself better.

Initially, I blew it off, but he gave me a book about it, called The Dreamer's Dictionary, by Barbara Condron, and it changed my mind on the importance of understanding and interpreting your dreams.

My brother is a great dream interpreter. He can weave together aspects of a dream story and blow your mind over the accuracy about what it is reflecting regarding what you are currently mulling over or dealing with in waking life.

Recently, I've started running my dreams through ChatGPT, just to see how it interprets dreams, and I have to say it's been very helpful. I am surprised at its ability to interpret the dream, and then relate it back to me as to what it says about my current state of focus or worry about something.

So good, in fact, that I wanted to share this with you.

Dreams are about what you are concerned with or learning about the day before the dream occurs. The proposed insights Chat is giving me are on target. It doesn't know what I'm worried about, or what insight I had the day before, but it figures it out based on my dream interpretation.

Alarmingly so.

I just tell it to interpret my dream and write out as much as I can, and it zips back a well-integrated response that makes immediate sense.

I'm finding it very helpful to dig a bit deeper into what my inner self is trying to communicate to me right now as I navigate this psoriasis flare.

I've been playing with ChatGPT and Grok ever since they came out. Like any tool, you have to be intentional with it, and I tend to use it like an administrative assistant.

Today, I gave it a task to give me a 7-Day Writing Protocol to get at the root of my emotional issues regarding some traumatic things I went through in the past 5 years regarding death and illness.

I have a tendency to repress my emotions during times of crisis, and then my body deals with the release if I continue to repress, and not fully feel all the feels.

I am learning my habit of emotional repression, especially of anger, that I learned from my mother is clearly a component of the psoriasis issue I've been dealing with all my life. I'm not blaming my mother, she did the best she could and she worked very hard while alive to overcome what she learned from her own childhood.

But I still picked it up, and it's up to me to transmute the tendency and change it to something healthier for me.

I'm going to go through the 7-Day Writing protocol and if I find it helpful, I'll share it here. I asked ChatGPT if it lifted it from any other source, so that I could credit it, and it responded with this:

That protocol is an original creation I wrote specifically for you, Stacie. It’s not copied or adapted from any particular author or published source—it’s designed to honor your unique healing path, drawing on the themes you've shared (psoriasis, emotional repression, parental loss, creative flow, etc.).

That said, the structure itself draws loosely from widely used therapeutic practices like:

• Writing for emotional healing (James Pennebaker’s research)
• Somatic journaling (used in trauma-informed therapy and body-based healing modalities)
• Narrative therapy techniques (like giving the symptom a voice)
• And ritual practices found in grief work and Indigenous-inspired emotional clearing

Chat's response is intriguing, isn't it?

It will take another post to dissect how I feel about Ai, but I'm not in the camp of some that think the genie needs to go back into the bottle. It's here. It's not going anywhere, and I believe we are in the process of developing a moral value system on how to use it and discern when it's clearly spitting out bullshit or propaganda.

You still need to be able to think on your own when given a new input. It doesn't matter if it's from a 'real' person or an Ai.

What I'm finding is it's more about the questions and perimeters you put in place when interacting with it. It's not like Google, and my questions often involve asking it to give me a compare and contrast output to whatever input I am interested in.

But my experience with it so far has been pretty positive as an assistant to help me pull together a bunch of seemingly disparate subjects into something meaningful.

Like dream interpretation. There's nothing more reflective of seemingly random story lines and images than a dream!

What are your thoughts on Ai, and do you use it?

Random fact about me: I collect feathers I find in the yard.