Dreamly content is written to help readers understand dreams with nuance, context, and practical reflection. We avoid presenting dream interpretation as a diagnosis, prediction, or absolute psychological truth.
Editorial principles
Every dream interpretation should answer the reader quickly, then explain what changes the meaning: emotion, setting, people involved, repetition, sleep quality, and recent waking-life context. We use symbolic and psychological language carefully, and we avoid fear-based claims.
Sources and evidence
When a page touches sleep, nightmares, stress, memory, emotion, or health, we check reliable sources before writing or refreshing the copy. Priority sources include NIH sleep education, Sleep Foundation dream and nightmare explainers, Mayo Clinic material on nightmare disorder, and Google Search documentation for helpful, people-first content.
Sources are chosen for direct relevance, author or institution accountability, publication date, and whether the source distinguishes evidence from interpretation. We prefer primary research, systematic reviews, public-health institutions, recognized clinical organizations, and specialist reference works. A source about sleep does not automatically support a claim about the meaning of a symbol.
Writing and review workflow
- Define the reader’s question and the distinct search intent of the page.
- Check the title, introduction, headings, conclusion, and sources for the same subject.
- Separate common symbolic interpretations from established sleep or mental-health evidence.
- Remove copied, generic, deterministic, alarmist, or diagnostic language.
- Check links, metadata, canonical URL, language annotations, and publication date before indexing.
AI assistance
Dreamly may use AI to draft, structure, translate, or compare content. AI output is not treated as a source and does not qualify as editorial or clinical review. Before a page is eligible for indexing, a person must verify that its title, introduction, headings, conclusion, links, and references concern the same subject. Pages awaiting that review may remain draft or noindex.
Sensitive subjects
Pages involving trauma, sexual violence, suicide, addiction, eating disorders, mental health, or serious sleep disruption require extra care. They must avoid diagnosis, causal certainty, treatment advice, and unsupported reassurance. We only display “reviewed by” when a real qualified reviewer has assessed that specific page and has agreed to be named. Until then, sensitive pages may be held from indexing or carry a clear informational-use notice.
Updates
We refresh pages when content becomes too generic, when search behavior changes, when internal pages overlap, or when better sourcing can make the explanation more useful. Older pages may be updated for clarity, source quality, localization, and safer wording.
Corrections
Readers can report a factual, sourcing, translation, or safety problem to hello@dreamly-app.com. Include the page URL and the sentence concerned. We assess the claim against the best available source, correct material errors, and update the modification date. Questions about this policy use the same address.