TunTun Diary: Exploring AI-Generated Storytelling and Virtual Companionship for Nightmare Relief
SIGGRAPH Asia Posters December 14, 2025 Zi-Xin Wang, Shan Luo, Siyu Tian et al.
Nightmares disrupt sleep and heighten daytime anxiety, yet therapeutic support is often hard to access due to limited clinician availability, cost, and clinical framing. We propose TunTun Diary, a mobile game in which an alien puppy named TunTun “eats” players’ nightmares and returns gentle, comic-style retellings. The system uses generative AI to reinterpret users’ nightmare descriptions into...