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The Uncanny Post

Methodology

We show how the answer was built.

Dream interpretation is not a laboratory diagnosis or a universal code. Our job is to make the evidence, reasoning, uncertainty, and alternatives inspectable.

Our Corpus publication standard

  1. 1Qualify the concept for distinct consumer value
  2. 2Retrieve primary and reputable published sources
  3. 3Separate supported claims from synthesis and exploration
  4. 4Test what dream details change the meaning
  5. 5Check contradictions, citations, duplication, and accessibility
  6. 6Publish a versioned page only after it scores 90 or higher

What has been checked?

Publication checks and source verification are different. An internal quality score is not proof of a meaning or a completed evidence audit. Entry-specific evidence review is still incomplete. Dictionary entries show whether unambiguous claim-to-source links are available, and whether passage locations have been recorded. Missing support stays visible; no entry earns a verified label merely by listing sources.

Editorial dream guides

Our separately labeled dream guides offer original, exploratory readings of everyday topics. They ask how the scene, feeling and personal association change the possibilities. Research about memory and dreaming informs this approach; it does not establish these proposed meanings. These guides are distinct from evidence packages admitted through the Corpus publication process, and ordinary word definitions remain an optional language reference.

Four claim classes

Directly supported

A source explicitly supports the nearby claim.

Supported synthesis

Multiple supported ideas are combined, with the reasoning bridge visible.

Reasoned extrapolation

A responsible inference is disclosed and confidence is lowered.

Exploratory interpretation

A plausible reading is offered as possibility, never fact.

How we will measure usefulness

We are preparing independent reviews of 100 held-out dreams, with product names hidden and the same information supplied to each service. Dictionary lookup and journaling are separate tasks. Our targets are at least 65% preference against each selected interpretation service, supported by statistical analysis, and 95% unassisted completion of core tasks. These are targets; we have not established those results. Private journal entries are used only when their owners separately choose to contribute them.

What we will not do

We do not fabricate authority, flatten religious traditions, turn feedback into factual truth, publish private dreams, or add generic sections merely because a template expects them.