The importance of dreams has sparked debates from numerous scientists, psychologists, and spiritual pundits.  But David Goodman, chief scientist and founder of the Newport Neuroscience Center, feels he’s onto something by interpreting dreams.

The Irvine, Calif. scientist believes that by studying our dreams we can pin-point an exact mood pattern. He has coined this new dream/mood theory Mental Chromatics, which could potentially lead to a “moody computer” and other sorts of artificial intelligence that play on moods.

“Tens of millions are being spent to digitally simulate human emotion,” said Goodman. “By the mere expedience of translating dream records into an electronic format, along with interpretive software, then you have a human consciousness that can be cloned in a computing system.”

Goodman is sort of a modern day “mad scientist,” conducting most of his experiments himself. After finding discontent with the way the pharmaceutical industry worked, he diverged on his own to start the Neurotics Center, and thus began a long process to track what was going on inside his head at night. Goodman taught himself to wake up and record at least four dreams per night.

Through 27 years and the analysis of 23,000 dreams, Goodman determined a clear pattern for what was happening during sleep. Those patterns, he would claim, related to mood and could be hinged to a particular pattern.

“These algorithms as software can be manufactured and purchased for insertion into desktop computers, PDAs to advise the individual on what can be their "good" and "bad" days based on previous determination and analysis of their personal rhythms,” said Goodman.

Taking the brain and dreams of Leonardi Di Vinci, said Goodman, these patterns are broken down into four mood categories with corresponding colors or natural elements: imaginative (green), confident (yellow), melancholic (blue) and contentious (red).

Goodman demonstrates this cycle with a multi-colored tetrahedron.

“It’s sort of a low technology thing,” said Goodman referring to the tetrahedrons. “The high technology is the algorithms and software for analyzing moods and dreams.”

Goodman feels that by having software to analyze dreams/moods, we can “solve problems that have been hair-raisingly difficult until now.”

Adjusting people’s “internal rhythms” is possible with dream analysis; technology will make it easier to adjust these rhythms.