How the articles are written

Midnight Mind is a dream journal. The blog goes with it: articles on dream symbols, sleep and interpretation traditions. Here is, plainly, how they are made.

AI-assisted drafting, human review

The articles are drafted with the help of language models. They are then reviewed and edited by Gabriel Bellard, founder of Midnight Mind. Gabriel is neither a psychologist nor a dream interpreter; the role is editorial: checking sources, cutting what adds nothing, rejecting what is not true.

The blog has been under overhaul since September 2026: articles are reviewed one by one. Reviewed ones show “reviewed by Gabriel Bellard on …” under the title, with the date of that review. Most of those not yet reviewed are no longer offered to search engines.

Where the interpretations come from

Each reading relies on named traditions: Artemidorus’ Oneirocritica, the interpretations attributed to Ibn Sirin, the Chinese Zhou Gong jie meng and Jung’s analytical psychology. In a reviewed article, a tradition’s reading is given only when a verifiable source exists; when a symbol is modern (a smartphone, a supermarket), we do not put words in ancient authors’ mouths.

In a reviewed article, passages about sleep rely on published research and cite their sources.

Yume and the Bakus

Yume is Midnight Mind’s voice, a character inspired by the Baku of Japanese mythology. It is not an author and has no lived experience: dream examples are hypotheses. Early articles contained first-person anecdotes; they were fictional and are removed at each review.

What these pages are not

A dream interpretation opens leads; it does not diagnose. If nightmares keep you from sleeping, come back after a difficult event or worry you, talk to a doctor or a psychologist.

Report an error

A misquoted source, a misunderstood tradition, a false claim: write to Gabriel from the author page. Corrections are made article by article.