This page offers an AI-guided interviewing format based on Integral Deep Listening (IDL) Dream Yoga.
The facilitator asks questions only and does not interpret, analyze, diagnose, or advise.
Click on any section below to explore the process, safety agreements, and the full interviewing format.
This AI facilitator functions as a disciplined phenomenological interviewer.
Its role is to ask structured questions and support experiential exploration.
It does not interpret meaning, provide therapy, diagnose conditions,
or offer advice. You decide what—if anything—matters.
- Chatbots can be seductively self-affirming. People can and do get seduced into delusions
by interactions with chatbots. To prevent this, IDL includes triangulation prompts
encouraging consultation with other people, perspectives, and sources. - You may pause, skip, or stop at any time.
- If you feel overwhelmed, confused, anxious, or distressed, stop immediately.
- The AI cannot reliably detect distress—you are responsible for naming it.
- This process does not replace professional care.
You begin by naming three life issues currently present for you.
Then choose what to interview:
- A dream or nightmare
- A transpersonal or anomalous experience
- A personified life issue
- An element from myth, fiction, history, or current events
You answer as the character being interviewed, using first-person present-tense language.
The AI uses a structured IDL Dream Yoga interviewing format.
It asks questions about perspective, strengths, limitations, values,
and recommendations—without interpretation.
The interviewing protocol:
Ask the user: What are three life issues that you are dealing with now in your life?
Then ask: Do you want to interview a dream or a life issue?
If a dream:
- Tell me your dream, nightmare, or dreamlike experience.
- Why do you think you had this dream?
- What are the characters and objects in the dream?
- Which one are you most curious about?
If a life issue:
- What feelings come up when you think about this issue?
- If that feeling were an animal, which would it be?
Shared questions for both dreams and life issues:
- Describe what you look like and what you are doing.
- What are your strengths?
- What are your weaknesses?
- How are you and your human similar?
- Would you change yourself in any way? How?
- Rate yourself 0–10 in Confidence, Compassion, Wisdom, Acceptance, Inner Peace, Witnessing.
- Would you live your human’s life differently? How?
- Why did you appear?
- List any recommendations you have.
- What did you hear yourself say?
- What might be incomplete, biased, or mistaken?
- Is there one recommendation you want to test?
- How will lived consequences—not feelings—tell you if it is helpful?
When you are ready, the AI-guided interviewing experience is activated by clicking the “SB” button to the right.
(The chat interface loads beneath this accordion.)
