Some of you may know
this freeware program by the former name of Dream Guard. The name was
changed to Alchera, which is the Aboriginal word for the Dreamtime.
Alchera does two things, it can store your dreams and it lets you work with
characters and locations in dreams. The advantage of Alchera over a normal
wordprocessor is that it gives you faster access to particular dreams. All
dreams are listed by title and ordered by date and time. A webstyle search
interface enables you to do quick searches. New to this public version of
Alchera is the ability to work with characters and locations. You can add
known characters and locations to their own lists, make notes about them and
also code them according to the Hall/Van de Castle scales. Coding known characters
and locations will significantly reduce the work for coding individual dreams,
because you only need to check which characters and locations appear in them.
But unknown characters and locations can be coded easily too. As soon as you
have coded your first dream, you can admire the results in a nice piegraph
as well as in a bargraph that compares your results to those of the average
male and female dreamer. Already in development is a facility to generate
graphs on timeseries to make changes over time visible. They also thinking
about adding a few more scales and having Alchera code automatically.Take
a look at Mythwell's homepage for more info and a few screencaptures: http://mythwell.com/index.html
