Dreams — User Journey

First 5 seconds

Black screen fades up. A single line of serif text breathes: "What did you see last night?"
One tap target, dead center: a soft indigo orb pulsing at 2.5s intervals like slow breath.
No logo, no nav, no onboarding. The feeling is temple, not app.

Tap the orb. A 60-second mic ring appears (or "type instead" tucked below).
User mumbles: "I was on a mountain holding a key but there was no door."
Ring closes. Screen goes dark for ~2s — the wait is theatrical, not technical.
A panel resolves: indigo sky, a small figure, a key glyph floating, bone-white ribbon.
Caption: "You are carrying an answer that hasn't yet found its question."
Footer: "Symbol seen: KEY · 1st time". User screenshots it. They didn't expect to.

Evening curiosity pull: user reopens just to look at this morning's panel again.
Sees an empty Tomorrow slot at the top of the feed. The empty slot is the hook.

Feed has 7 panels. A new line appears in the footer: "Recurring this week: KEY (3), DOOR (2), WATER (2)."
The pattern is uncomfortable. Not in a bad way. The user is now reading their own mind back to themselves.
They start mumbling longer dreams. The art gets richer.

30-panel scroll = personal Sandman comic. They've shown one friend, exactly one, and only the panel — never the words.
The app has become the first thing touched in the morning, displacing the doomscroll for ~90 seconds. That displacement is the product.
Recurring symbols have become private vocabulary: "I had a river one again." Dreams is now load-bearing in their inner life.