Frequently Asked Questions
Everything you need to know about participating in I Dream of AI.
Any dream in which artificial intelligence, a chatbot, an intelligent machine, a robot, or anything you associate with AI appears — in any form, any role, any way. It doesn’t matter how central or peripheral AI was to the dream. If it was there, we’re interested.
No. Fragments, impressions, and partial memories are all valuable. Write whatever you remember, however much or little that is.
Any language. The form interface is available in English, Italian, Spanish, and French (with more languages coming), but you can describe your dream in whatever language feels most natural to you.
Yes, as many as you like. If you dream about AI again, come back and share it. Each submission is independent.
A few minutes. The only required field is the dream itself. Everything else is optional.
Yes, completely. We do not collect your name, email address, or IP address. There is no login, no account, and no way to trace a dream back to the person who shared it.
It enters an anonymized research corpus. Researchers analyze it alongside thousands of other dreams to identify patterns in how humanity dreams about AI. Your dream may also appear, anonymously, in the Atlas of AI Dreams.
Because submissions are fully anonymous — we store no identifying information — we cannot locate or remove a specific submission after it has been received. By submitting, you consent to your dream becoming part of the research corpus.
I Dream of AI is a citizen science project created by the PAD International Research Group at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, in collaboration with the Res Viva Interuniversity Research Center. The project brings together researchers in the history of science, cognitive science, computational linguistics, and digital humanities.
No. We do not interpret individual dreams. We study the patterns that emerge when thousands of dreams are brought together — the emotions, symbols, and themes that recur across a large, diverse, international collection.
The anonymized dream corpus will be analyzed through historical-cultural, psychological-phenomenological, and computational-linguistic methods. Results will be published in academic papers, presented at conferences, and visualized in the Atlas of AI Dreams. The anonymized corpus will eventually be released as open data for independent research.
When the open data release is available, yes. We are committed to making the anonymized corpus accessible to the research community under an appropriate open-access license. Details will be announced on this site.