Use this only when there is fresh, meaningful material to reflect on and plain analysis is not already enough.
If the task is first-pass planning or diagnosis, use thinking or recursive-thinking instead.
Typical chaining:
use thinking to converge on a plan
use recursive-thinking to challenge that plan when risk or ambiguity is high
use dream-thinking after execution, conflict, or reflection-worthy experience
Symbolic recombination as a reasoning tool. Sleep = gather tensions. Dream = re-encode through concrete imagery that preserves structural relationships. Interpret = extract what the imagery reveals that literal analysis missed. Wake = convert to action. The value comes from defamiliarization — breaking literal fixation by seeing familiar material through an unfamiliar lens.
Depth: "quick dream" (1 scene, brief) vs. full cycle (1-3 scenes, detailed — default)
Focus: "dream about X" (targeted) vs. general (everything recent — default)
本方法可无参数运行。如果用户提供以下自然语言修饰词，可调整运行逻辑：
风格：「噩梦版本」（侧重风险）、「展示有效内容」（侧重对齐度）、平衡模式（默认）
深度：「快速梦境」（1个场景，简短）vs 完整周期（1-3个场景，详细，默认）
焦点：「梦见X」（定向反思）vs 通用模式（反思近期所有内容，默认）
Workflow
工作流
Prepare for sleep. List recent tensions, unanswered questions, and repeated patterns. Prefer the smallest set that captures the real conflict. If no genuine tension exists, offer a brief reflection instead — a forced dream teaches nothing.
Enter dream state. Recombine fragments into 1-3 symbolic scenes. One scene for a single tension; more only when materially different patterns need reconciliation.
Interpret. Explain what each scene suggests using both mood and function categories. Apply apophenia guards before committing.
Wake up. Convert to explicit lessons, changed understanding, and concrete next actions.
Record. Emit a dream log using dream-log-template.md. If the environment provides a user-approved memory system, save non-obvious or decision-relevant motifs there for longitudinal tracking. Otherwise, keep the insight in the dream log only.
If there is no real tension, skip dream imagery and output:
What happened
What seems to matter
What to watch next
What action, if any, follows
如果不存在真实矛盾，跳过梦境意象，直接输出以下内容：
发生了什么
关键信息是什么
后续需要关注什么
后续需要采取的行动（如果有）
Symbol Quality
符号质量标准
A good symbol maps to a specific source element (not a vague mood), preserves structural relationships (if A depends on B, the symbol keeps that), highlights a property literal description obscures (brittle dependency → glass), and can be interpreted in more than one way.
A weak symbol maps to a general feeling, could be swapped for any other image, has one obvious interpretation, or adds atmosphere without insight.
Falsifiability test: someone familiar with the source material should be able to judge whether the mapping is accurate or stretched. If it works equally well for any source, it is too vague — replace it.