Dreams are unusually personal data
A dream entry may mention relationships, fears, health, sexuality, work or memories that make little sense outside the dream. Even a short fragment can reveal more than an ordinary note. Worrying about where that content goes makes honest recording harder and adds friction at the moment recall is already fragile.
Privacy supports the practice itself. When the journal feels like a record you control, it is easier to capture the awkward detail, keep incomplete fragments and return later to patterns that may become useful dream signs.
Your dream entries stay under your control
Oneirism requires no account. Dream entries are stored on your iPhone. If iCloud is enabled, SwiftData can sync them through the private CloudKit database attached to your Apple ID, so the record can remain available across your devices.
Oneirism does not operate a backend server that receives your dream text. The developer cannot open, retrieve or recover your journal because there is no separate Oneirism copy of it.
Speak the dream without creating an audio archive
Voice can preserve more detail when typing feels too slow after waking. Oneirism asks Apple’s speech recogniser to transcribe on the device, then saves the resulting dream text. The app does not keep an audio recording.
This makes voice a practical recall method rather than a second collection of sensitive files to manage. You can continue in text, correct unclear words later and keep the original uncertainty where the memory is incomplete.
What privacy by design covers
Oneirism has no login, does not show ads and does not track you across other apps or websites. Anonymous product events and crash diagnostics may be sent to the analytics services named in the full privacy policy, but those events do not contain dream text, transcripts or audio.
The boundary matters: private dream content stays on your device and in your own iCloud when sync is enabled, while limited operational data helps identify whether the app works. The privacy policy describes both sides rather than treating privacy as a vague promise.
Keep the private record useful for lucid dreaming
Privacy is valuable because it lets the journal remain specific. Record what you remember on waking, review recurring places or contradictions, and use one personal dream sign in MILD rehearsal or as a trigger for an attentive reality check.
Start with the guides to remembering more dreams, keeping a lucid dream journal and practising MILD with a remembered scene.
Practical privacy questions
- Does Oneirism require an account?
- No. You can keep the journal and use the lucid dreaming practice without creating a Oneirism account.
- Do dreams go to Oneirism servers?
- No. Oneirism has no backend server that receives dream content. Entries remain on the device and can sync through the private iCloud account attached to your Apple ID.
- Is voice transcription performed on the device?
- Yes. Oneirism requires Apple’s on-device speech recognition and saves the resulting text rather than an audio recording.