The Dream Engine

Capture what you remember. Reflect on it. Choose one small action.

The Dream Engine is a private dream journal with a simple evening and morning practice. Record a fragment, a feeling, an image, or a question. You do not need to remember a whole dream to begin.

FREE TO USE

• Unlimited journal entries, kept on your device.

• Seed: hold a question, image, or unfinished thought near attention.

• Trace: write what remains on waking, before the day explains it away.

• Action: choose one ordinary step you can take while awake.

• Saved drafts, so an evening seed is still there in the morning.

• Seven mornings of starter prompts, at your own pace.

• Search, export, share, and delete your entries.

• Read the Introduction and Chapter 1 of The Imagined Life.

GO DEEPER WHEN YOU CHOOSE

Unlock the complete book, The Imagined Life: Living Inside a Dreaming Brain, with an optional one-time in-app purchase. Read all eleven chapters and the Coda offline, adjust text size, bookmark sections, and return to your reading position.

No subscription. Your journal remains free whether or not you buy the book.

PRIVATE BY DESIGN

No account, ads, social feed, or analytics. Journal entries stay on your device. Store purchases are handled by Apple or Google. Export entries before changing devices or uninstalling; the app does not provide cloud sync.

The Dream Engine does not decode dreams, promise lucidity, diagnose sleep, or provide medical or mental-health treatment.