Scientists Imagine Worldwide Real-Time Dream Reporting Assisted by AI - AI Trends

Scientists are developing AI tools to help analyze dreams, in the hopes of better understanding where dreams come from and helping people address real-life problems, especially around mental health. Scientists in the UK and Italy have created an AI tool to analyze dream reports, which are text reports written by the dreamer when they wake up. The analysis of dream reports previously demanded a time-consuming manual annotation of text, which is why dream reports have recently been mined with algorithms focused on identifying emotions, according to a recent account in the Royal Society Open Science journal. The goal is to mine important aspects of dream reports, such as characters and interactions, in a principled way grounded in academic literature. The team designed a tool that automatically scores dream reports based on a widely-used dream analysis scale.