ABOUT HYPNIC

Remembering your dreams can open a path to knowing yourself.

Hypnic is a personal dream journal app for recording dreams by voice or text. It makes emotions, themes, and recurring patterns visible over time.

Hypnic takes its name from the Ancient Greek root hypnos (ὕπνος) meaning “sleep.”

PERSONAL VALUE FIRST

A journal, not a dream dictionary that hands down definitive answers.

Hypnic separates observation from interpretation.

It does not claim that every dream has one meaning.

It does not provide medical or psychological diagnoses.

LONG-TERM VISION

From individual dreams to a collective memory.

With sufficient participation and explicit consent, Hypnic aims to study shared themes across periods and cities using anonymous dream data.

This research layer is separate from the personal journal. Raw dream entries and re-identifiable data are not made public. Hypnic is free for users. We plan to sustain it by making dreams from users who give permission available to research institutions once identifying details are removed.

WHY HYPNIC?

Why am I building Hypnic?

I have occasionally experienced hypnagogic hallucinations since I was three or four years old. Those experiences led me to think about how dreams form, how they relate to personal life, and where they meet the idea of a collective unconscious.

Advances in AI-assisted software development tools made it possible to turn that curiosity into a working product. I am building Hypnic first as a safe journal where people can record dreams regularly and see their own recurring patterns.

In the long term, I want to explore what anonymous dream data prepared under ethical conditions could contribute to research and a local LLM. This direction will not be pursued without privacy safeguards, explicit consent, sufficient data, and expert collaboration.

APP DEVELOPERFurkan MersinliThe person building Hypnic. My other projects and writing are on my personal site.furkanmersinli.com