Every morning, something slips away.

Understory catches your dream before it fades, then tracks the symbols, roles and archetypes that return across weeks and months. Not just one dream at a time.

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Capturing dreams is free. Private by design.

What it does

One dream tells you very little. The one that keeps coming back tells you a lot.

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Pattern detection

What recurs across 14 days, what shifts week to week, and what your subconscious keeps returning to.

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Identity Arc

Your dream-self role and the archetypes that show up, tracked across 30, 60 and 90 days.

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Many lenses, no verdicts

Jungian and Talmudic readings, plus The Other Dreamers: Mesopotamian, Tibetan, Norse and other traditions, offered as company, not answers.

A sample reading

Here's what a reading looks like.

An example dream

I'm back in my old primary school, but the corridors keep getting longer. I'm carrying a cake I'm meant to deliver to someone and I can't remember who. A man in a grey coat keeps holding the doors open for me. I never see his face.

The reading

What stands out

A corridor that never ends, a gift with no name on it, and a helper whose face you can't see.

A possible archetype

The Threshold Guardian: a figure at the edge of a change. In Jungian terms, it can show up when you're about to cross into something new.

What Understory watches for

One dream like this tells you very little. If the doorway figure or the long corridor comes back across the next few weeks, that's when it starts to mean something, and Understory will point it out.

This is a made-up dream with a general reading, as an example. Readings in the app are based on your own dreams and what keeps returning in them. Reflective, not diagnostic.

Private by design

Your dreams are not ad inventory.

Nothing is sold

Dream content is never used for advertising or sold as data.

Yours to take

Export or delete everything, any time.

Reflective, not clinical

Understory is a tool for noticing patterns. It does not diagnose or replace professional care.

Pricing

Capturing dreams is free. Seeing the pattern is the subscription.

Free

Record by voice or type your dreams, as many as you like.

$7.99 a month

Your identity arc, archetypes, weekly reports and reflection prompts.

$49.99 a year

The same, for about $4.17 a month. That is 48% less than paying monthly.

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