The Dreamshare Seer

The Dreamshare Seer is a dream visualisation project initally developed with residents of the Isle of Sheppey, and open to everyone. Register to use the free digital tool and discover a generative AI that translates your sleeping dream descriptions into visual animations, creating a collective dream cloud.

Could we be dreaming of the same thing?

It’s strange; although most people dream every night, science still hasn’t figured out the purpose of dreaming! And because we don’t know what to do with our dreams, we mostly avoid sharing them with others. As a result, we don’t know if everyone around us might be dreaming the same thing? What if we started sharing our dreams and discovered, that, for example, a green fox is appearing in the background of multiple dreams from people all living in the same area?

Adam Chodzko’s The Dreamshare Seer, is a new extraordinary interactive public artwork using generative AI to transform descriptions of people’s sleeping dreams into visual animations. Created with the inhabitants of the Isle of Sheppey, Kent, The Dreamshare Seer tool then maps these shared dream visions through its Dream Cloud, automatically gathering around themes or motifs they have in common, whilst indicating where the dreams emerge from on the Island.

Discovering connections between dreaming and place

The Dreamshare Seer offers a new surreal way for us to connect with each other and to the landscapes we inhabit, informed by indigenous knowledge of dreamwork. Although the first Dream Cloud is being formed by dreams from the Isle of Sheppey’s residents, The Dreamshare Seer tool can be trialled by anyone, anywhere in the world, to visualise their dreams. The unique free tool at the centre of the project uses generative Artificial Intelligence to visualise and animate the imagination of an entire community. Over 150 dreams from Sheppey have been shared so far and the project is constantly evolving. The tool itself echoes the structure and strange logic of a dream.

It's a dream archive, a group artwork, an exhibition, a carnival, a pioneering community citizen science experiment, and a gathering of storytellers. We're trying to discover the connections between place and the act of dreaming. Do dreams dreamt by a community in a particular geographical location share any similarities between them?

Links to the culture of Malaysians' ancestors

The Dreamshare Seer project is remotely observed and guided by a Malaysia-based group, and assembled by the artist, Adam Chodzko. This loose collective of accomplished artists, anthropologists, researchers, educators, and leaders of NGOs, promotes the culture of Malaysia’s Orang Asli – the oldest inhabitants of Peninsular Malaysia, a heterogeneous indigenous population. The Orang Asli tribes believe that their shared dreams are healing communications from their ancestors and nature, guiding these communities’ quotidian and spiritual interactions and ecologies in deeply sustainable ways. By applying AI to dream-sharing, and accessing otherwise hidden knowledge, the project intends to echo and build from the ancient social role of collective dreamwork. Despite Jung and Freud, the Global North still dismisses dreams as boring and meaningless, while neuroscience is discovering dreaming’s essential role in drawing together the most unlikely combinations and distant connections in the mind. Dreaming is an inherently diverse and inclusive process, constantly generating new knowledge. Equally, AI’s dodgy ethics, its biases, hallucinations and aberrations, operate as a form of collective id, akin to the unique qualities of our sleeping dreams; AI’s ‘black box’ problem is echoed in our experience of the night and sleep.

Online Project. Register here: https://dreamshareseer.org/ 

Project photo: Adam Chodzko, The Dreamshare Seer, Sketch for The Dreamshare Seer, still from the collective dream bus on marshes, 2025.