A voice-first dream journal
Wake up, tap once, speak. Unsomnia keeps the room dark, writes down every word, and over the weeks shows you what your dreams keep coming back to.
Built for 3 AM
So there’s nothing to type and nothing to decide. The recorder is the first thing you see, and it stays dim whatever the time.
The microphone is the only bright thing on the screen. The controls fade after a few seconds, and a sleepy tap only brings them back. It can’t stop or delete anything.
A slow waveform shows it’s listening. Half a sentence is fine. A single image is fine. Fragments count.
Stop saves it. No buttons to confirm, no screen that lights up the room. The rest can wait for the morning.
The morning after
When you open the app in daylight, the night sky gives way to a dawn, and the dream is there: written down word for word, with a title, a short summary, and the people, places and things that were in it.
The transcript is yours, kept exactly as you spoke it. Mumbled at 3 AM and remembered more at breakfast? Add details to the same dream.
Each dream gets a detail from a public-domain museum painting, chosen for its colour and mood. Swipe for another.
Search every dream by a word, a person or a place. Bring your old journal in from Day One, Notion, Obsidian, Apple Notes or plain text.
Five lenses
Underneath, a frontier AI model reads the transcript. On top, it never just says what a dream “means”. Each observation is labelled with the research tradition it comes from, and you choose which ones you want.
“…the hallway kept getting longer, and I remembered that’s a dream sign for me, so I did a reality check… I walked straight to the red door and opened it this time. Behind it was the ocean at sunrise. Sam was there and said, see, you were allowed now.”
From a demo journal. Not a real person’s dream.
The red door appears for the third time in your journal. This is the first dream in which you open it.
This is your second lucid dream, and again the trigger was a dream sign you’d noticed before: the hallway that keeps getting longer.
Counting, not interpreting. From the Hall–Van de Castle tradition of dream content analysis.
Red door. You’ve said: “The thing I was never allowed to open as a kid.” Until now it stayed shut in your dreams. Here you open it, and what’s behind it is wide and bright.
Only ever your own words. Unsomnia asks what something means to you; it never makes up a meaning.
Boundary score 0.66: the thinner side. Settings shift without breaks and feelings run high. Over four weeks your dreams have been getting more fluid.
Descriptive, never diagnostic. Ernest Hartmann’s Boundaries in the Mind (1991).
Waiting for you. Jung asked for the dreamer’s own associations first and offered archetypes last, so this lens stays quiet until you’ve told Unsomnia what a few of your recurring figures mean to you.
Sam keeps appearing at thresholds and tells you what you’re allowed to do. You’ve said Sam is “the one who always knew the way”. Jung would call a figure like this a mentor or wise figure. Does that fit?
Offered as a possibility, never as a verdict. You can turn the lens off.
In this week’s check-in you said you were waiting on a decision. The calm, permission-giving tone of this dream is a change from last week’s anxious ones.
These often turn up together. We can’t tell which way it runs, or whether one causes the other.
Over weeks and months
Insights grows with your journal: who and what keeps returning, how the emotional tone moves, your personal dream signs, and plain counts from fifty years of dream research. Only ever compared with yourself, never with anyone else.
For lucid dreamers: Unsomnia ranks the things that recur in your dreams but rarely in waking life, and notes which ones came just before you became lucid.
Four languages
Speak in English, Persian, Arabic or Hebrew. Unsomnia recognises the language, writes the transcript and the whole analysis in it, and sets the text the right way round.
English فارسی العربية עברית
I was back in my grandmother’s house, but the whole ground floor was flooded, maybe knee deep, and the water was really calm and clear. There was a red door at the end of the hallway that I’ve never seen in the real house. My brother Sam was standing next to it holding a brass key…
خواببین در خانه مادربزرگش کنار دریا بود که زیر آب قرار داشت و راهروهایش هی درازتر میشدند. برادرش آرش یک کلید برنجی به او داد و گربه خاکستری دنبالش میآمد. پس از باز کردن دری که به کتابخانهای پر از پرنده میرسید، خواببین متوجه شد دارد خواب میبیند…
وجد الحالم نفسه في بيت جده القريب من البحر، غير أن البيت كان مغموراً بالماء وممراته تمتد وتطول. أعطاه أخوه يوسف مفتاحاً نحاسياً وتبعتهما قطة رمادية من غرفة إلى أخرى، حتى فتحا باباً يؤدي إلى مكتب مليء بالطيور…
החולמת הייתה בבית סבתתה הנמצא מתחת למים, עם מסדרונות שהלכו והתעקלו. אחיה יונתן נתן לה מפתח מפליז, וחתול אפור ליווה אותם מחדר לחדר. כשפתחו דלת לספרייה מלאה ציפורים, החולמת הבינה שהיא חולמת…
The same dream, recorded four times in four languages, from our demo journal. Each analysis was written in the dream’s own language.
The art
Not an AI picture of your nightmare. A quiet detail from a real painting, from the open collections of the world’s museums: skies, water, gardens, weather. Chosen for colour and mood, never to explain your dream.
Privacy
Your recording is sent to be transcribed and analysed, and that’s all it’s used for. We say who does it and what they may not do.
We surface patterns. You decide what they mean.
Unsomnia isn’t a dream dictionary and it isn’t a horoscope. It counts what’s countable, asks what things mean to you, and labels every interpretation with whose idea it is.
Pricing
Recording, transcripts, search and your journal are free, for good. Your first six dreams get the full analysis, so you can see what it does.
Unsomnia+ adds unlimited analysis, every lens and Insights. Planned at US$47.99 a year, with a lower price for early supporters.
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