Everyone dreams at night. You may not always remember your dreams, but you do have them. Dreams are your brain’s way of processing and sorting away information, memories, thoughts, and things we took in the previous day. Think of a massive filing cabinet of information, everything you’ve ever seen, heard or even smelled. Dreams are the way our brain files and stores that information.

We have both short and long-term memory that our brain needs to sort through and organize. When you first fall asleep or take a short name, your brain deals with the immediate, short-term memory type of stuff. This is why you feel refreshed when you wake up from a nap: your brain has cleared up some space for you to take in even more data.

When we go to bed at night and fall into a deep sleep, our brain does all the heavy lifting and starts to sort through the big picture stuff. This is when you have those crazy dreams that you wake up and start to freak out about, like snakes or falling from an airplane.

These are symbolic representations of things in our life. We aren’t really dreaming about a snake; we are really dreaming about hidden fears. Our brain is an insanely powerful computer, and it uses symbolism to handle the vast amounts of data it takes in. This is why dream dictionaries are great, because they allow you to look up certain things and figure out what they are symbolic of.  For example, the dream dictionary tells us that airplane dreams are about a deep-seated desire for freedom and independence.

But sometimes, just knowing the symbolic representations of something doesn’t quite explain the dream. Sometimes, we need a little help, and that’s where our AI dream doctor can help. Our AI has been trained on thousands and thousands of real dreams and can give you deep insight into the meaning of your dream. It can give you personalized, relevant insight that you won’t get from a dream dictionary.