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REMCloud Lets You Share Your Creepy Dreams With Everyone Else

by Amar Toor on October 20, 2010 at 11:05 AM

bieber dreams on remcloudWe share virtually every part of our lives online, so why not share our dreams, too? That seems to be the rationale behind a new site called REMCloud -- a social network built entirely upon dreams.

Created by Kim Muhota, REMCloud, at first glance, looks a lot like Twitter. Instead of sharing what they do and think in the real world, though, the new site's users are encouraged to share what they experience in their dreams. The platform also features a mechanism that can generate automated interpretations of shared dreams, by searching for keywords used in the descriptions. Users can even comment on each others' shared dreams, rate them [Ed. Note: A+++ WILL DREAM AGAIN!], and offer their own interpretations. It's like crowdsourced Freudian psychoanalysis.

Perhaps the most intriguing part of the network, according to Muhota, is its ability to unearth the similarities in dreams from across the world. REMCloud, much like Twitter, will automatically display trending dream topics, giving some insight into what the rest of the world sees when they close their eyes at night. As the Wall Street Journal explains, Muhota hopes to use this data to create what he calls 'Dream Mosaics' -- graphs that show what users are dreaming, in real-time. "It's almost like tapping into the collective consciousness of the globe," the founder says.

That certainly sounds mind-blowing, but for the site to work, of course, its users must resist the temptation to fabricate completely outlandish tales. (And, as we all know, there are always some dreams we'd rather not want people to know about.) But if users actually latch on to the idea, and employ it honestly, REMCloud could offer an ethereal alternative to people fed up with the oppressive "reality" of Facebook.

Tags: dreams, kim muhota, KimMuhota, remcloud, SocialNetworking, top, web

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