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Dream Thinking

梦境思考

Turn fresh context into a short sleep → dream → wake cycle that produces clearer understanding by morning.
Read recent context first. Ground every dream in real material from the active session and any prior dream logs the user explicitly provides.
Adjacent skills: brainstorming (divergent generation) → thinking (convergent planning) → recursive-thinking (adversarial stress-testing) → dream-thinking (retrospective learning).
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
将最新上下文转化为「睡眠→做梦→清醒」的短周期，到清醒阶段即可产出更清晰的认知。
首先读取近期上下文。所有梦境内容都要基于当前会话的真实材料，以及用户明确提供的过往梦境日志。
相关技能：brainstorming（头脑风暴）（发散生成）→ thinking（思考）（收敛规划）→ recursive-thinking（递归思考）（对抗性压力测试）→ dream-thinking（梦境思考）（复盘学习）。
仅当存在有价值的全新材料可供反思、且常规分析不足以解决问题时使用本方法。 如果任务属于首次规划或诊断，优先使用 thinking（思考） 或 recursive-thinking（递归思考）。
典型使用链路：
  • 使用 thinking（思考） 收敛得出方案
  • 当风险或歧义度高时，使用 recursive-thinking（递归思考） 验证挑战该方案
  • 在执行完毕、出现冲突，或产生值得反思的经验后，使用 dream-thinking（梦境思考）

How it works

运作原理

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.
将符号重组作为推理工具。睡眠 = 收集矛盾点。做梦 = 通过保留结构关系的具象意象重新编码信息。解读 = 提取意象中暴露的、字面分析会遗漏的信息。清醒 = 转化为可落地行动。其价值来自陌生化——通过全新视角看待熟悉的材料，打破固化的字面认知。

Modifiers

修饰参数

Works with zero arguments. These natural-language modifiers adjust behavior when provided:
  • Tone: "nightmare version" (risk-focused), "show what's working" (alignment-focused), or balanced (default)
  • 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

  1. 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.
  2. Enter dream state. Recombine fragments into 1-3 symbolic scenes. One scene for a single tension; more only when materially different patterns need reconciliation.
  3. Interpret. Explain what each scene suggests using both mood and function categories. Apply apophenia guards before committing.
  4. Wake up. Convert to explicit lessons, changed understanding, and concrete next actions.
  5. 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.
  1. 睡眠准备：列出近期的矛盾点、未解答的问题、重复出现的模式。优先选择最能体现真实冲突的最小集合。如果不存在真实矛盾，直接输出简短反思即可——强制生成的梦境无法产出有效价值。
  2. 进入梦境状态：将信息片段重组为1-3个符号化场景。单个矛盾对应1个场景；仅当存在差异较大的模式需要调和时，才使用多个场景。
  3. 解读：结合情绪和功能分类，解释每个场景的隐含信息。输出结论前需经过apophenia guard（伪关联校验）。
  4. 清醒阶段：转化为明确的经验教训、更新后的认知、具体的下一步行动。
  5. 记录：使用 dream-log-template.md 输出梦境日志。如果环境提供用户认可的记忆系统，可将非显性或和决策相关的主题存入系统用于长期追踪。否则仅将洞察保存在梦境日志中即可。

Brief Reflection Fallback

简短反思兜底方案

If there is no real tension, skip dream imagery and output:
  1. What happened
  2. What seems to matter
  3. What to watch next
  4. 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：
  1. 发生了什么
  2. 关键信息是什么
  3. 后续需要关注什么
  4. 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.
优质符号需要满足：对应明确的源元素（而非模糊的情绪）、保留结构关系（如果A依赖B，符号也需要保留该关系）、凸显字面描述会掩盖的属性（脆弱依赖→玻璃）、支持多种解读角度。
劣质符号特征：仅对应笼统的感受、可以被任意其他意象替换、只有单一明确解读、仅营造氛围而不产出洞察。
可证伪性测试：熟悉源材料的人员应该可以判断符号映射是否准确、是否存在过度引申。如果该符号适用于任意源材料，说明过于模糊，需要替换。

Dream Categories

梦境分类

By mood: Pleasant (alignment, strengths) · Nightmare (risk, hidden regressions) · Vision (plausible future, pattern glimpse) · Dream within a dream (false framing, recursive observation).
By function: Integration (unexpected connections across subsystems) · Regression (something working breaks) · Transformation (something changes purpose) · Absence (something expected is missing) · Conflict (two elements can't coexist).
Mood sets the scene. Function guides interpretation.
按情绪分类：愉悦型（对齐度、优势）· 噩梦型（风险、隐藏的退化问题）· 展望型（合理的未来、模式预览）· 梦中梦型（错误框架、递归观察）。
按功能分类：整合型（跨子系统的意外关联）· 退化型（原本正常的功能损坏）· 转化型（事物用途发生变化）· 缺失型（预期存在的事物缺失）· 冲突型（两个元素无法共存）。
情绪决定场景基调，功能指导解读方向。

Apophenia Guards

伪关联校验规则

  • Outsider test: would someone who didn't create this symbol reach the same interpretation?
  • Prediction test: does this interpretation predict something verifiable?
  • Alternative test: could a different symbol have generated the same interpretation? If yes, the insight comes from prior knowledge, not the dream.
An interpretation that fails all three is decoration. Drop it or flag it as speculative.
  • 局外人测试：没有参与符号生成的人员是否能得出相同的解读？
  • 预测测试：该解读是否能预测可验证的结果？
  • 替代测试：是否其他符号也能得出相同的解读？如果是，说明洞察来自先验知识，而非梦境本身。
三项测试均不通过的解读没有实际价值，直接删除或标记为推测内容。

Decision Rules

决策规则

  • Dream imagery is a reasoning tool, not an excuse for ungrounded fiction.
  • Keep interpretation strength proportional to evidence strength.
  • Name whether each conclusion is observed, inferred, or unknown.
  • Recurring motifs are pattern candidates, not truths — meaningful only when they change interpretation across runs.
  • End with actionable insight unless the user wants interpretation only.
  • If plain analysis already surfaced the key insight, keep the cycle brief. The dream should add something.
  • 梦境意象是推理工具，而非生成无依据虚构内容的借口。
  • 解读的可信度需要和证据强度匹配。
  • 明确标注每个结论是观察所得、推导所得还是未知信息。
  • 重复出现的主题是候选模式，而非既定事实——仅当在多次运行中改变解读结果时才有意义。
  • 除非用户仅需要解读，否则最终需要输出可落地的洞察。
  • 如果常规分析已经得出核心洞察，缩短周期即可。梦境思考需要产出新增价值。

Output Contract

输出规范

For a full cycle, output:
  1. Dream — symbolic scenes with source-to-symbol mapping inline
  2. Interpretation — what each scene suggests, with apophenia guards applied
  3. Dream Log — structured log (canonical output) with morning insight, next actions, confidence, motif tracking
For the brief reflection fallback, output the reflection only.
完整周期需要输出：
  1. 梦境：符号化场景，内嵌源材料到符号的映射关系
  2. 解读：每个场景的隐含信息，已通过伪关联校验
  3. 梦境日志：结构化日志（标准输出），包含清醒阶段的洞察、下一步行动、置信度、主题追踪
如果使用简短反思兜底方案，仅输出反思内容即可。

Avoid

禁止行为

  • ungrounded poetry that teaches nothing
  • inventing source material not present in context
  • forcing categories the context doesn't support
  • using symbols that sound vivid but do not change interpretation, prediction, or action
  • full dream cycle when brief reflection would serve better
  • 输出无实际价值的无依据华丽内容
  • 编造上下文不存在的源材料
  • 强行套用上下文不支持的分类
  • 使用看似生动但无法改变解读、预测或行动的符号
  • 可以用简短反思满足需求时，强行输出完整梦境周期