• It records and stores your dreams, DreamWork insights, Journal entries and Dream KnowledgeBase information.
• It DreamLinks each word in your dream narrative to categories you have created or selected.
• It is totally flexible and easy to edit. You can add, delete or edit any root word, definition or category.
• It answers questions about your dreams. Questions like "Who do I dream about most often?" "What problem solving techniques do I use in my dreams?" "Are they successful?" "What emotions are most frequent in my dreams?"
• Use Edit Composite Sets to create very complex specific groups of dreams or worklets to examine.
• The Near Query. Find words that are adjacent, several words apart but in the same sentence, or in the same area.
• It keeps track of your dream statistics for you. Each entry is automatically updated in the word frequency counts.
• It searches out content similarities you are not aware of. Use Find Related Dreams, DreamWork or Knowledge Base.
• It links dreams, worklets, dreamwork and poetry together so you can keep track of your continuing work on any particular concept.

Left Brain and Right Brain.

Most dream processes come with a bias towards a particular theory or style of dream work. Often, they are very left brain oriented, like quantitative analysis and content analysis, or they are very right brained, like poetry, dialoguing and other intuitive styles. DreamSpinner™ is a tool which makes any particular type of process available to you. It is our belief that it is all relevant, and is cyclic, feeding from each other. If you are in a content analysis mood, you use DreamSpinner™ to count occurrences, figure percentages and compare this with yourself and others. That information will trigger intuitive insights you wish to explore more thoroughly. Switching from one process to another is as easy as clicking the mouse.

Keywords

Every program has special terms. Here are DreamSpinner™ terms you may be unfamiliar with.

Worklets

A Worklet is literally a little piece of work. You collect information about any aspect of your dreams and link them to any word or category. Example: Create a Water Worklet. Hook dreams, insights, thoughts and intuitive processes to a Worklet called Water. All work stays together so you don't lose track.

Worklet Sets

Worklet Sets are one or more worklets put together in a set to examine different ideas together. You define the Worklet Set using the category structure.
An example of a Worklet set is the word "cat". First, you define what you want in the "cat" Worklet set. In the "cat" category, DreamSpinner™ has listed different words that name "cat". Kitty, cat, pussycat, kitten, panther, and personal names of pet cats. You may want to add more categories. Perhaps you want cat house, cat box, catty talk, to be included. Find the categories they are listed under and include them. That then is the Worklet Set "cat."

Dream Sets

Dream Sets are just sets of Dreams that can be examined as a group.
There are two ways to define Dream Sets: as all dreams related to a Worklet Set, or as all dreams related to a given dream. To examine the first type, simply change to the set "All Dreams", then to "All Dreams in Current Set with Worklets in Current Set" (after activating the correct worklet set). If you want to create a permanent set of this type, create a composite set containing the appropriate Worklet Sets; composite sets can be viewed as either Worklet Sets or Dream Sets. To examine the second type, activate a dream and then choose Left Brain|Find Related|Dreams menu item. To save the dream set, just use the button on the form that appears with it.

Informational Sets

Informational Sets allow you to ask questions using Worklet Sets and Dream Sets. For example, the Informational Set "Timeline" creates a timeline of the number of times that worklets in the set appear during each time period throughout time (you can select from a variety of time periods in order to ask a wide variety of different questions).

Basic Sets

A Basic Set is one of the two types of Worklet Sets. These are created from the Worklet Categories directly - they consist of one or more categories of Worklets.

Composite Sets

A composite set is a DreamWork idea made up of a combination of other Basic or Composite sets through Boolean Logic (and, or, not, near). Composite Sets are the other type of Worklet Set, and can also be viewed as Dream Sets.

Some other things that DreamSpinner™ does

In the English language, there are different word endings to the same root word. Verbs have -ed, -s, -es, -ing endings. Nouns have -s, -s's, -'s, -es. It would be tedious to search "run", then "running", then "ran". So we hooked the changed word forms to the one root word. Now when you search the word "run", you will also get incidences of "ran", and "running". These relationships are created in the DreamLinking Window.

The English language is a living changing thing. There are many different words that express similar meanings. DreamSpinner™ keeps these words together in a category structure. For example: You could just search the single word Water. But water can be found with other words too. Like the words lakes, oceans, tears, mud and steam. You choose how narrow or how wide you want the search. The category structure helps you keep like things together.

The categories are structured in a hierarchical form, like an outline. The up levels are the parents of what's under them. The lower levels or sub-categories are the children. DreamSpinner™ supports multiple parenting, which allows it to better approximate Natural Language. This makes the searches more subtle and useful for you.

What is multiple parenting? You link one root word with one definition to more than one category. Many words also carry several different kinds of meanings you might want to track. For example: The word Hit, meaning "To strike someone" can be linked to the category Social Interaction, sub-category Aggression. It is also a physical movement linked under the category Hit/Strike. You can link objects to its various characteristics. For example: Banana can be linked to fruit, and the color yellow, and to the category Linearity Negative (curved), or to the category Sexual Nuance. Whatever you feel relates to that image.

Doing the left brain work of counting and examining patterns always seems to create right brain intuitive insights and thoughts related to the work you are doing. DreamSpinner™ has a special window you can type all your insights and thoughts about the concept you are working with. This window allows you to link this DreamWork snippet to particular dreams and worklets you want it linked to. This way you keep all related things linked together and can keep building on the same concept learning more about yourself as you go.

Using DreamSpinner™: Step By Step