What Is The Dreamometer?
A living archive of what humanity dreams
We dream — and have always dreamed — of the same patterns.
Falling. Flying. Teeth. Strangers. Houses. Doors. Water rising. What if you could see all of it at once?
The Dreamometer is a free, anonymous, public archive of what the world is dreaming about — right now, tonight, in real time. It is the first instrument of its kind.
How It Works
When someone interprets a dream at In Your Dreams, the symbols are extracted — falling, teeth, water, mother, library, stranger — and added to a public count. No names. No identifying information. Just the symbols themselves, joining a living archive that anyone can watch.
The brass dials you see overhead are not decoration. They tally what humanity is dreaming, the dominant emotional weather, the rising and falling of symbols across the world's sleeping minds, and The Thread — the single theme tying this week's dreams together, drawn from the symbols and moods themselves. The Schumann Resonance and the KP index — environmental rhythms that surround human consciousness as we sleep — are read here too.
What It's For
The Dreamometer is for the curious. For anyone who has ever lay awake wondering whether their nightmare is theirs alone, or whether the world dreamed it too.
It is also a research foundation. Researchers, journalists, and clinicians may use the methodology page to understand how the data is collected, classified, and presented.
Always Free
You can watch the Dreamometer forever without paying anything. Logging a dream is also free and anonymous — go to In Your Dreams to leave one in the archive.
Every December 31st, we publish The Year in Dreams — an annual record of the most-dreamed symbols, the rarest moments, and the patterns that shaped a year of human dreaming.
The library remembers what we, together, dreamed.