Languages

Your dreams don’t switch to English. Neither should your journal.

Plenty of people keep their phone in English and dream in the language they grew up in. Unsomnia is built for that.

English فارسی العربية עברית

One dream, four languages

Flooded Grandmother’s House and the Red Door

5:40 AM · Voice

I was back in my grandmother’s house, but the whole ground floor was flooded, maybe knee deep, and the water was really calm and clear. There was a red door at the end of the hallway that I’ve never seen in the real house. My brother Sam was standing next to it holding a brass key…

Grandmother’s houseRed doorSamBrass key

The same dream, recorded four times in four languages, from our demo journal. Each analysis was written in the dream’s own language.

A Persian dream in Unsomnia, laid out right to left under a painting.
The journal with Persian, Arabic and English dreams side by side.

It hears which language you spoke

Whisper recognises the language of each recording. If you tell Unsomnia which languages you dream in, it uses that as a hint, which helps with short or quiet recordings.

The analysis speaks it too

Title, summary, scenes and every lens observation are written in the dream’s language and script. Names stay as you said them, never transliterated.

Right to left, the right way round

Persian, Arabic and Hebrew dreams are laid out right to left, with typefaces made for them, even inside an English interface.

Search that knows the letters

Search treats ي and ی, ك and ک, and Persian and Arabic digits as the same, so you find a dream however you type the word.

What to expect, honestly

  • Arabic is tested in Modern Standard Arabic. Dialects often work, but we don’t promise it.
  • Switching languages within one recording is hard for speech recognition. One language per dream works best.
  • The app’s menus and buttons are in English for now. Translated interfaces are planned.
  • Someone who dreams in two languages may see the same person twice, once in each language. You can merge them.