Dreamcatcher: An A.I. That Can Analyze and Interpret Dreams

Google search queries and social media posts provide a means of peering into the ideas, concerns, and expectations of millions of people around the world. Using the right web-scraping bots and big data analytics, everyone from marketers to social scientists can analyze this information and use it to draw conclusions about what's on the mind of massive populations of users. Could A.I. analysis of our dreams help do the same thing? That's a bold, albeit intriguing, concept -- and it's one that researchers from Nokia Bell Labs in Cambridge, U.K., have been busy exploring. They've created a tool called "Dreamcatcher" that can, so they claim, use the latest Natural Language Processing (NLP) algorithms to identify themes from thousands of written dream reports.