AI And Dream Inerpretation

What is dream interpretation? It can be viewed as assigning meaning to the imagery and symbols within our dreams. Dreams can be a way for spirit to bring messages to us. They can be a portent of things to come and/or things to watch out for. They can be a way of addressing stress in our daily lives or addressing shadow issues that we do not feel comfortable dealing with. Dreams play an important part in our lives and need to be acknowledged and respected. 

The world of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has now found its way into dream interpretation. What AI does is gather intelligence (facts) and turn them into algorithms that help us analyze the patterns and symbols found in our dreams. In essence, we are looking into our own unconscious mind, the mind that created the dream in the first place. 

The app that came to my attention was dreaminterpreter.ai, an app that interprets dreams but also has what is called Dreamer Map, where users can share their dreams with the community and get feedback from other users.

I put into the app a dream that I had some time ago of my mother and I in a speeding convertible with the top down. She was driving. (In real life, we would not have been in a convertible with the top down, and we would not have been speeding.) We were coming up to a curve that I knew we were not going to be able to navigate. We flew off the curve, out into space, towards the ocean. We did not go nose down, we floated down horizontally in a peaceful manner. I woke up before we hit the water.

I had already interpreted this dream as it was very straightforward. The interpretation that the app gave me was spot on.

It is easily seen how this tool can help individuals in their daily lives, but how would we use this tool as writers? We can use it to present flashbacks, we can use it as warnings for the future, we can have our characters entering into conversations with those that have crossed over, and we can have the solution/resolution to an issue present itself in a dream. 

We can create a dream with one AI app (such as ChapGPT) and have it interpreted by another AI app (such as interpretation.ai).

AI is here to stay - we simply need to discover how to use it and what part we want it to play in our lives.

(c) March 2023 Bonnie Cehovet

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How Writers Can Make Best Use Of ChatGPT

 

ChatGPT (Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer) is a chat box launched by Open AI in November of 2022. It came to my attention pretty much at the same time from two sources: a LinkedIn gentleman that I follow (S. Vincent Shin) and the founder of a course that I was taking related to writing (Ty Cohen).

It is known for its detailed, articulate responses, but also has a significant drawback - it has uneven factual accuracy. I just started using it and found it easy and fun to use. I asked for a title for this specific blog and was given a very nice one that I adapted for use. It also provided me with an outline for this blog, which I did decide to use. (I can ramble on a bit on my own!)

I plan to continue using the program to give shape and focus to whatever I am writing. It will not write the article/story/book for you, but it will give you a solid outline that takes your own thoughts/ideas and brings them to life. This would be very helpful if you were in a place in your writing where you were either stuck or simply lost.

The bot mimics human conversation, which makes it easy to follow. It also has the ability to sort out what is factual and what is not factual about the questions it is being asked.

As the responses from the bot are known not to be 100% accurate, I would advise using it as a starting point and doing your due diligence to verify the information you are being given.

ChatGPT is free to users. I understand that there is also a paid version, which gives users priority during times of heavy usage, as well as access to new features. The app is not currently available for use on iPhone or IOS.

(c) February 2023 Bonnie Cehovet

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