Sleep scientists have extensively validated the continuity hypothesis, according to which our dreams reflect what happens during our waking life. Yet, only a few attempts have been made to increase the general public’s awareness about the benefits of dream analysis in better understanding and improving our daily life. We designed “The Dreamcatcher,” an interactive visual tool that explores the link between dreams and waking life through a collection of dream reports. We conducted a user study with 154 participants and found a 25% increase in the number of people believing that dream analysis can improve our daily lives after interacting with our tool. The visualization informed people about the potential of the continuity hypothesis to a surprising extent, to the point that it increased their concerns about sharing their own dream reports, thus opening new questions on how to design privacy-aware tools for dream collection.

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捕梦网：梦想的互动故事

睡眠科学家已经广泛验证了连续性假设，根据该假设，我们的梦反映了我们清醒时发生的事情。然而，只有少数尝试来提高公众对梦境分析在更好地理解和改善我们的日常生活方面的好处的认识。我们设计了“The Dreamcatcher”，这是一种交互式视觉工具，通过一系列梦境报告探索梦境与清醒生活之间的联系。我们对 154 名参与者进行了一项用户研究，发现在与我们的工具交互后，相信梦境分析可以改善我们日常生活的人数增加了 25%。可视化以惊人的程度让人们了解了连续性假设的潜力，以至于增加了他们对分享自己的梦境报告的担忧，