Twelve Interpretive Traditions
Every tradition here is a complete world of insight on its own. A dream read through Jung is whole. A dream read through the Kabbalah is whole. A dream read through contemporary sleep science is whole. Choose the lenses that speak to you — one, several, or all twelve — and the engine will work entirely within them.
What changes when you layer them is both depth and resonance. One tradition can illuminate corners another tradition leaves shadowed — Jung sharpens what alchemy hints at, neuroscience grounds what Tibetan dream yoga frames, the Kabbalistic worlds give scaffolding to a Greek oracular reading. And the places where independent traditions converge on the same dream are the seams of the collective unconscious becoming visible — personal mythology meeting the shared mythology of the species. The synthesis of ancient practice with empirical science makes both legible at once.
Twelve doors into the same room. Open the ones that are yours.
How It Works
Capture
Record your dream the moment you wake. Write with light on a dark screen. Voice, typing, or handwriting — the bedside capture mode preserves recall using neuroscience principles.
Analyze
100 analysis operations extract symbols, emotional arcs, spatial structure, transformations, figure networks, and more — before any interpretation begins.
Interpret
Twelve traditions read your dream simultaneously. Each produces an independent interpretation. The synthesis engine identifies where they converge, diverge, and complement.
Evolve
Your personal dream language builds with every dream. The engine learns your symbols, tracks your journey across series, and deepens its understanding over time.
Under the hood
How the engine reads dreams
Every text Elucid interprets through is a real, traceable source — public-domain works from Project Gutenberg, the Internet Archive, Sacred-Texts, and the Oxford EEBO project. We download the actual files, log the origin, and keep the link so any citation can be traced back to its edition. Today: 235 editions across 13 traditions, from Artemidorus to the Bardo Thodol to Jung's Collected Papers to the great pre-Freudian French and German dream-treatises (Maury, Saint-Denys, Delage, Janet, Volkelt) — several of which we commissioned the first complete English translations of, and which simply did not exist in English before now.
Each text is parsed by the structure its author wrote. A Jung paragraph stays a Jung paragraph. An Artemidorus dream-symbol entry stays an entry. A Bardo Thodol recitation stays a recitation. We refuse to chop sacred or classical works into arbitrary 700-word blocks like every other AI corpus tool does — the author's own divisions are preserved as the smallest unit of interpretation.
When you submit a dream, twelve interpretive frameworks read it in parallel. Each draws on the passages most relevant to yourdream — found via Voyage AI's semantic fingerprinting combined with classical keyword search and a dedicated relevance re-ranker, restricted to English-content editions today (the multilingual corpus underneath is reserved for future polyglot expansion). On a paid subscription, Claude (Anthropic) writes each framework's synthesis on top of those passages; on the free tier you receive the matched passages directly without any LLM call —your dream content never leaves our servers in plaintext on the free tier. Either way, citations are verified against the retrieval set before reaching you. No fabricated sources. No “according to Jung” that Jung never said.
On top of the corpus we run a structural 13-lens extraction per passage — symbols, themes, figures, settings, affect, body, speech, movement, transformations, boundaries, spatial relations, outcomes, genre. So when your dream features a transformation or a threshold-crossing, we can match it not only by literal vocabulary but by the structural axes Jung, Janet, Artemidorus, Macrobius, and Volkelt actually wrote in. ~570 passages across the proof-of-model bundle (Synesius, Delage, Janet, Volkelt, Artemidorus, Macrobius, Saint-Denys) are extracted today; the rest of the English corpus is queued.
Built on Anthropic's Claude, Voyage AI, and Neo4j Aura. Claude provides the interpretive depth. Voyage provides retrieval that actually finds what you mean. Neo4j Aura — coming online in the next phase — will graph every connection between symbols, passages, and traditions for instant cross-referenceable insight. None of this would be possible at this depth or this price without their infrastructure. Sincere thanks to all three teams.
Corpus & Roadmap
Every interpretation cites primary sources. See what's in the engine — and what's next.
85 public-domain texts across 12 traditions
Jung, Freud, Maury, Saint-Denys, Artemidorus, Macrobius, Aurora Consurgens, Iamblichus, Plutarch, Josephus, Augustine, William James, the Upanishads, Rumi, the Bardo Thödol, 1 Enoch, and more — see the full inventory.
Three commissioned translations + calendar-tier landings
Ibn Sirin (Arabic), the Ramesside Dream Book (hieratic), and Zhougong Jiemeng (Classical Chinese). The Zohar enters US public domain in 2027.
Start free. Go deeper when ready.
No algorithmic pressure. No engagement loops. A simple tool for serious inner work — priced accordingly.
For the curious. Read the source material the engine pulls for your dream — no AI synthesis required.
- ✓Source passages from the 13-tradition corpus
- ✓All 12 framework lenses searchable
- ✓Hybrid retrieval (vector + keyword + rerank)
- ✓Dream journal + personal symbol dictionary
- ✓AES-256 encryption at rest
- –Claude AI synthesis of those passages
- –Dream series analysis
- –Interactive modes (Socratic, Active Imagination)
- –Voice narration
- –API access
For the dedicated explorer. Adds Claude AI synthesis on top of the same corpus retrieval.
- ✓Everything in Dreamer
- ✓Claude-synthesized interpretation per dream
- ✓Citations grounded in retrieved passages
- ✓Dream series analysis
- ✓Socratic dialogue & Active Imagination
- ✓Deep structural analysis
- ✓Voice narration (Kokoro TTS)
- ✓Data export
- ✓Graceful fallback to passages-only if AI is unavailable
- –API access
For researchers, therapists, and depth psychology practitioners.
- ✓Everything in Seeker
- ✓API access for batch analysis
- ✓Pre-registration research templates
- ✓Statistical analysis tools
- ✓Priority support
- ✓Collective Model participation
All plans include a 14-day free trial. No credit card required to start. Cancel anytime.
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