#545 Amy Perez: Can Dreams Improve Your Decisions?

Amy Perez, CEO at myDream & Mindful Software, Inc. - is a former government technology leader, Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, and responsible AI consultant, and we spoke about using dreams as another source of information for decisions, self-awareness, and major life changes. After years managing high-stakes programs - including a digital system that distributed more than $10 billion in pandemic aid - Amy was outwardly successful but exhausted: “I was slowly dying on the inside.” A violent dream centered on her work phone became the turning point. She quit, immediately felt “20 pounds lighter,” and she and her husband left their careers to travel the world for a year. That experience led Amy into systematic dream interpretation and eventually to building an AI-assisted approach that combines emotions, common symbolism, personal meanings, recurring patterns, and input from experts with more than 180 years of combined clinical experience. What previously took Amy more than an hour can now be explored in seconds, but she stresses that interpretations should offer possibilities rather than dictate decisions. Her philosophy is equally clear about AI: “Technology should serve the person, not turn the person into the product.” Privacy, anonymization, expert review, and keeping human judgment in the loop are therefore central to the approach.For listeners, the practical starting point is simple: set an intention before sleep, record whatever you remember - even one word - and begin looking for recurring emotional and symbolic patterns over time. Amy created myDream to make that process easier: the app lets users capture dreams quickly, add their own personal meanings to symbols, explore expert-informed interpretations, and identify recurring trends that may connect to waking life. Her larger argument is especially relevant to entrepreneurs: “you will never have all of the data you need to make a decision,” so dreams and intuition can become an additional source of information- not a replacement for judgment, but another signal worth learning how to hear.Set an intention before sleep to strengthen dream recall. Record dreams immediately, even if you remember only one word.  Track recurring symbols alongside your personal emotional context.  Treat dream interpretations as possibilities, not instructions.  Use subconscious insights as additional data for difficult decisions.  Design personal AI around privacy, reflection, and human judgment.Learn more about Amy’s work and explore myDream: https://www.mydream.io/