/guide · a field manual

How to use Dream Wiki.

You record. The wiki grows. You ask questions. This page walks through the whole loop — from the first half-remembered dream to a wiki that knows your shadowy figure better than you do. Read it in the dark, the morning after.

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§ 01The core loop

Three small acts, repeated nightly.

The whole app is this loop. You record a dream as soon as you wake; the wiki ingests it; over time the same pages return — richer, stranger, more your own.

read these in order.
01/dreams/new
~ 90 seconds

Record a dream.

Open /dreams/new, tap the mic, or just type. No editor, no template — say what you remember in any order. Save when you're done.

voice · text · or both·title optional
02auto · on save
~ 3 seconds

The candle reads it.

An LLM parses the entry, finds the symbols, characters, places, emotions and themes, and either creates new wiki pages or appends to existing ones. You don't tag anything.

 Synced · 2 pages
03/wiki
over weeks

Your wiki compounds.

The same shadowy-figure page grows richer with every encounter. Versions accumulate. The constellation thickens. Old dreams stay anchored, but the reading changes.

v.1 · v.2 · v.3 …·nothing is lost
§ 02The five categories

Every dream-element lands in one of five.

The LLM sorts what it finds into five elemental kinds. One category per wiki page — never mixed. Colors are stable: a violet thing is always a theme, a teal thing is always a place.

Symbolmercury

Objects, substances, forces that carry meaning. Things that stand for something else, even when you can't say what.

waterfirea locked door
Charactercopper

People, figures, presences. Named or nameless, familiar or strange — anything in the dream that acts.

your mothera strangerthe pursuer
Placeverdigris

Locations, spaces, settings. Rooms that recur, landscapes that don't quite match anywhere on earth.

childhood homeendless corridorflooded basement
Emotiongarnet

Felt states. The body in the dream. Name the feeling specifically — vague labels make for vague pages.

dreadeuphoriabeing watched
Themeamethyst

Recurring narratives and structures — the shape underneath the plot. What happens, again and again.

pursuittransformationunprepared
§ 03How a wiki page is built

A page is one element, compounded over time.

Each wiki page belongs to one category and grows with every dream that touches it. The LLM writes the body; you can read, link, and remember. You don't author these by hand.

Character· slug:shadowy-figure· v.2· 2 dreams
The Shadowy Figure
05·01first seen05·15last seenpursuer → observerrole shift

Appearances

Tall, featureless dark humanoid. Moves silently. First encountered as a pursuer in a wooded setting; in a later dream the same figure was seated in the back row of an exam room, watching. The figure does not speak.

Associations

Pursuit, paralysis, terror in the first appearance; observation, unpreparedness, judgment in the second. Co-occurs with dark-forest, pursuit, and exam.

Dreams

  • 2026·05·15Exam room, shadowy observer
  • 2026·05·01Dark forest, heavy legs
§ 04Asking questions

The wiki answers, grounded in your dreams.

On /chat, ask anything about your dream world. The agent loads the relevant wiki pages — not the whole journal — and replies with what's actually written there. If an answer is good, you can save it; it becomes a new page and compounds with the rest.

you · 2026·05·15 · 09·44Water keeps appearing. What patterns do you see?
candle · ds-haiku · 5 pages loadedWater shows up in three of the last five dreams, always rising slowly — never flowing, never still. In two cases the dreamer's mother is also present, ignoring them. The legs-heavy / running-through-water metaphor recurs once outside any literal flood; that's the only "dry" appearance.
waterchildhood-homemotherparalysisflooding
youSave this as a page.
candle · saved as new pageThemewater-as-slow-risingv.1 · 0 dreams · derived
ask the wiki about anything you've recorded…
§ 05Wiki Lint

The candle tidies the book between dreams.

As the wiki grows, edges fray. Lint runs nightly and on-write — it catches near-duplicate pages, missing cross-references, lonely orphans, and pages whose category has drifted. Most fixes are one-tap.

orphans
Pages with no parent dream.

Wiki pages that no source dream references anymore — usually merge residue or a deleted entry. Delete, archive, or seed.

near-duplicates
Two slugs, one shadow.

When dark-corridor and dark-forest are really one place. Merge keeps the earlier slug.

missing edges
Pages that should hold hands.

Two pages co-occur in the same dream but don't link to each other. Lint suggests the cross-reference both ways.

category drift
A symbol that became an emotion.

When a page's content no longer fits its category — e.g. drowning reads as a state, not a thing. Reclassify in one tap.

cadence · nightly + on-writeRun lint now
§ 06Tips for good entries

Short and specific beats long and tidy.

Four small habits that make the wiki much richer over time. The morning hand is rough — that's fine. The candle reads roughness as detail.

015 a.m. rule
Record immediately after waking.

Details fade in under three minutes. Roll over, mumble it into the mic before you check the time, the news, anything.

don't open your eyes wide.
02name the body
Name the feeling, not just the plot.

"I was being chased" is half a dream. "I was being chased and could not scream and my mouth was full of glass" is a wiki page.

03recurrence
Recurring elements matter most.

A two-sentence dream that brings back the shadowy figure for the fifth time enriches the wiki more than a long, beautiful one-off. Don't skip the small ones.

the third visit is the one.
04the transcript
Edit the transcription before you save.

Whisper-quiet recordings get garbled. A 15-second cleanup catches the names, the proper nouns, the only word in the dream that mattered.

§ 07Where to go next

Begin now, while the dream is still warm.

Pick one. The wiki only starts compounding once there's a first entry. Even one rough dream is enough to seed three or four pages.