Overview
In his groundbreaking 1900 study, The Interpretation of Dreams, Sigmund Freud wrote, 'The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.' According to the rather unyielding Austrian psychiatrist, we can only come to a complete understanding of an individual via the unconscious, as revealed through a study of dreams.
Freud would have had a field day with the 'Sleep Talk Recorder' app. Launched in 2011 by Mad in Sweden, it has the capacity to record what we say when we are fast asleep, deep inside the realm of our inner psychological recesses and unguarded by inhibitions.
The prospect of having it planted in your room on the sly isn't too appealing. However, thousands of individuals, all too happy to have their midnight ramblings go public, have uploaded their recordings to the Mad in Sweden site. With many expressing their elation that the app has 'changed their lives', a crew from the company jetted to the US to find out more.
They met a lady who'd discovered she was an inveterate sleepwalker, and a man who'd revealed a talent for singing in Yiddish. A documentary, featuring these and a wealth of other stories, is in the making.
The Sleep Talk Recorder, which has seen more than one-and-a-half-million downloads, is available online for $0.99.
[Via Lost at E Minor]