DV Member Dreams Hacked

**IAmCoder** · 07-20-2011 03:21 AM

And searched for dream signs:

Code:

PercyLucid: wife, night, room, store, car, guy, game, bed, friends, work
WakingNomad: Raven, energy, moon, portal, body, angel, eyes, face, God, MoSh
Raven Knight: MoSh, energy, Asuka, portal, dark/light, Tigress, healing, door, Nomad, room
Man of Shred: Asuka, walking, woman, weird/strange, door, hand, brother, head, face, street
matte87: walk, Monica, morning, head, girl, water, hand, work, door, run
Sekhmet: water, young/old, building, room, outside, woman, dark, door, forest, floor
zebrah: brother, dad, building, kill, walking, outside, water, run, fall, girl
Samael: library, sword, creature, hand, Dean, head, dark, floor, woman, eyes
Auron: ship, girl, head, outside, walked, face, ground, door, random, scene
Puffin: feet, door, light/dark/pale, wall, building, hand, outside, sitting, school, ground
maboroshi: woman / girl, sat, stood, family, mom, floor, walking, boy, hair, door
ineverwakeup97: school, run, fly, water, hand, friends, outside, werewolf, signs, girls
Mzzkc: blade, hand, head, face, ground, arm, body, game, fight, zombies
KristaNicole07: mom, Ryan, work, outside, brother, water, school, sitting, door, walking
allensig3654: giant, Kara, Leo, dad, water, walking, Michael, Lindsey, downstairs, school
Atras: Anais, Alex, JJ, home, school, playing, door, work, shirt, driving
Nighthog: road, walking, door, ground, water, hand, girls, head, building, path
LiveInTheDream: work, building, body, head, hands, eyes, fall, wall, floor, air
sisyphus: game, office, father, window, street, phone, sister, mother, Lance, TV
ReachingForTheDream: room, school, playing, old, game, class, bus, mother, horse, giant
ALL: room, door, girl, outside, guy, walk, night, water, hand, car, building, dark, bed, old

∴ If you walked through a door and are walking outside at night with a girl or guy you are probably dreaming!

All in all over 4000 dreams from the top 20 dream journals where processed. Let me know if you feel left out (you were not on this list) and I will run your dreams through the latest dream sign building algorithms in Liquid Dream III.

**dakotahnok** · 07-20-2011 11:56 AM

Too bad I don't have an online dream journal

**Mzzkc** · 07-21-2011 01:19 AM

Neat.

Reminds me of a school project I did a few semesters ago. Your algorithm probably parses through DV's code better than mine did, though. XP

I notice the more descriptive DJs have a lot of top words that would be related to action or sight (like hand, face, or ground for instance). It might be interesting to see what happens if those kinds of words are given less of a tfidf weighting (assuming that's what you used to do this), as they seem to be more commonly used in DJs, but are probably largely unimportant.

**IAmCoder** · 07-21-2011 04:30 AM

Thanks. I actually don't use any weighting - just a long list of words to ignore (e.g.: I, a, and, the). A dream sign can be added to a category or the ignore list and is then skipped on future runs.

E.g.: I removed 7 signs from your first list and built it again.

Code:

Mzzkc: blade, fight, zombies, air, dragon, room, run, energy, night, hands

**ty4TheAdventure** · 07-21-2011 04:41 AM

Awesome! Feel free to have your algorithm parse through my dream journal. I'd love to see what comes up.

**IAmCoder** · 07-21-2011 04:59 AM

Sure.

Code:

PhantomLegend: walked, building, outside, brother, girl, door, campus, dad, car, hall

**Puffin** · 07-21-2011 05:24 AM

This is cool!

Most of the ones that came up for me aren't really dream signs, though.

I mean, walls, hands, and the ground appears in most of my dreams but don't really let me know that I'm dreaming.

**AURON** · 07-21-2011 05:55 AM

Interesting...I know I dream about girls a lot...they tend to stand out the most. But I can't figure out the ship thing. Never knew I mentioned them a lot. How about resorting that top twenty and using "comment's" instead of "entries". IMO the people who get tons of comments probably have the "top 20 dream journals".

**IAmCoder** · 07-21-2011 06:16 AM

Originally Posted by Puffin

This is cool!

Most of the ones that came up for me aren't really dream signs, though.

I mean, walls, hands, and the ground appears in most of my dreams but don't really let me know that I'm dreaming.

Ah, not easily impressed. Let me see what else I can pull out of my bag of tricks.

Code:

Puffin: door, pale, school, window, table, glass, webs, wood/wooden, eyes, sky

Originally Posted by Auron

Interesting...I know I dream about girls a lot...they tend to stand out the most. But I can't figure out the ship thing. Never knew I mentioned them a lot. How about resorting that top twenty and using "comment's" instead of "entries". IMO the people who get tons of comments probably have the "top 20 dream journals".

Perhaps Mzzkc was on to something with the tfidf weighting: you only had 3 dreams with ship in them, but this one was literally swimming with them:
Shipeater Fish - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views.

**Wildman** · 07-22-2011 09:45 AM

That's pretty cool, I'd be pretty happy to see results for my DJ (grandfathered) as well if you're interested

. I imagine dark/night, game, girl will probably be there.

**IAmCoder** · 07-22-2011 03:06 PM

Hmm, I will have to write some new code for the grandfathered DJs one day. 'Til then and in honor of your 1000 dreams I have run the 76 dreams in your new DJ. Twice:

**Wildman** · 07-23-2011 08:45 AM

Originally Posted by IAmCoder

Hmm, I will have to write some new code for the grandfathered DJs one day. 'Til then and in honor of your 1000 dreams I have run the 76 dreams in your new DJ. Twice:

Awesome, thanks! Sorry I didn't realize you couldn't run it on a grandfathered journal. Also, lol zombies.

**zebrah** · 07-23-2011 09:08 AM

This is really interesting. It's neat to see what your program came up with.

I never realized how much I dream about my brother and my dad.

**StaySharp** · 08-03-2011 05:05 PM

Hm that's some interesting stuff, just that I currently have no DJ...

However I might have a few ideas:
1. About the way the program chooses dream signs: Instead of going for a total count of specific words (assuming this is still what you do), would it be possible to assign an array of possible dream signs to each dream and see if one of them comes up in an significant amount of dreams? That way one dream swimming with one word (like in the case with Auron above) wouldn't promote that thing immediatly to be recognized as dream sign.
2: What about certain actions that can only be described through more than one word, going through walls for example?

**IAmCoder** · 08-04-2011 11:49 PM

Thanks!

Yeah, it would probably be better to do something like this or as Mzzkc suggested, using tfidf weighting, but... if it works, don't fix it.
You would have to invent a word for that, like "portalled", or use a consistent phrase with underscores, like "through_a_wall" for now. I have made a note to allow phrases as category items.

**angie746** · 08-05-2011 12:41 AM

Hey Iamcoder, any chance you could run mine through for me

**IAmCoder** · 08-05-2011 01:31 AM

Sure.

Code:

angie746: room, hubby, door, woman, hand, fly, bed, outside, dad, lol

**StaySharp** · 08-05-2011 02:46 AM

Originally Posted by IAmCoder

Thanks!

Yeah, it would probably be better to do something like this or as Mzzkc suggested, using tfidf weighting, but... if it works, don't fix it.
You would have to invent a word for that, like "portalled", or use a consistent phrase with underscores, like "through_a_wall" for now. I have made a note to allow phrases as category items.

I thought as well about letting the program check for specific phrases, given you go through the stuff word for word.
For example the sentence: "Suddenly I turned left and went through the wall"
The check for this specific thing could be
1. Checking for words like going/went/walking/etc. and upon finding on triggering step 2
2. Checking for through (can't come up with anything else) if found as well, go to step 3
3. Checking for words like wall/door/etc. if found as well that'd make a positive on going through solid objects

also the check should include the ignore list, so that "went right through the wall" wouldn't corrupt the result.

**Loaf** · 08-06-2011 01:30 AM

Eh, this is fun but not reliable. Its all relative on how often someone uses words. If I wrote a sentence:

I stood by the window. It was white, just your average window frame and glass. I had to run up to this particular window earlier, but didn't look out of it.

I stood by a window. It was white, nothing special. I was here earlier, but didn't look out of it.

Stuff like door, window, old, eyes, walk are all not dream signs since they happen in both the real world and dreams all the time. I can see what you did here but I hope you are just doing it for fun.

**Shadow27** · 08-06-2011 02:05 AM

I haven't updated my dream journal recently, but feel free to go through mine as well.
I'd be interested in seeing what mine are

**Atras** · 08-08-2011 12:29 AM

hahah wow nice !

**dacher2** · 08-08-2011 12:39 AM

I would like to have my dj run through, I haven't written in it in a while though

**IAmCoder** · 08-08-2011 01:23 AM

@StaySharp: That would definitely be fun to program one day, and a challenge to keep it fast. Perhaps I will create a second function - Dream Phrases.

Code:

shadow27: dad, building, college, car, school, mom, game, high, store, run

@Loaf: Well, these are also just the top 10 most common words. Dream signs are very personal and I imagine better results if words are filtered out by the individual. But I did not do it just for fun; I was hoping that it would help someone reach lucidity. And there is nothing wrong with using doors as a dream sign, seeing that they are the most common word and easily used as a RC.

Thanks Atras!

Code:

dacher2: school, guy, party, home, girl, night, game, room, bus, kid

**Loaf** · 08-08-2011 01:38 AM

Am I wrong in saying a dream sign is suppose to be an exclusive indicator in ones dream that triggers lucidity? An RC and a dream sign are quite different. But I can see where you are coming from.