Play It Again, For the Next Time: Iteratively Reinterpreting Dreams with Generative AI
Adjunct Proceedings of the 2025 International Conference on Human-Engaged Computing November 21, 2025 Yifan Zhao, Bowen Liu, Zhi-Peng Jia et al.
Our dreams are so fleeting that every time we try to recall them, we reinterpret them anew. To explore how human psyche can iterative reconstruct dreams to re-imagine dream content in novel contexts, we created a workflow whereby one dream recorder wrote down eight distinct dreams, and three dream interpreters use these narrative fragments to visually recreate these subconscious experiences...