Editorial standards

This page says how the site works, so you can judge it. It is a description of the rules the site is held to, and of how those rules are enforced.

How an article is made

The Dream Guidebook is an independent project with one editorial voice, published under the name Nora Vance. Articles are drafted with AI writing tools. The drafts are then revised under a written specification covering structure, sourcing, tone and what may not be claimed, and corrected when they fall short. The editorial name is a pen name. There is no clinician, psychologist or theologian behind it, and no article is presented as professional advice.

What every article must do

• Name its sources. Researchers are named, works are listed at the end of the article, and a statistic always names the survey it comes from. We currently use one: the 2003 typical-dreams survey by Nielsen and colleagues, with 1,181 respondents.
• Quote Scripture exactly. Biblical articles quote the King James Version with the reference given. Where the Bible says nothing about a symbol, the article says so.
• Separate fact from tradition. What research found, what a tradition teaches and what we think are labeled as three different things.
• Answer early. Each reading opens with a short answer, then explains.
• End with questions, not verdicts. You know your own life. We do not.

What is checked before each release

Automated checks run over the whole site before every release and block publication when they fail. They look for invented personal stories or reader mail, statistics that do not come from the named survey, link wording that stands in for a real reason, broken internal links, pages that nothing links to, typographic damage, long dashes, and articles that are too thin or too long. The checks catch rule breaks, not every mistake, which is why the corrections page exists.

What we will not do

• Say a dream predicts the future, warns of a coming event or foretells a death.
• Diagnose, treat or advise on health, mental health or relationships.
• Invent experiences, testimonials, readers, studies or quotations.
• Present a tradition as established fact, or a religious reading as a ruling.
• Hide that a link is an affiliate link.

Money and independence

The site shows a short reading list with Amazon affiliate links and may display Google advertising. As an Amazon Associate the site earns from qualifying purchases. Advertisers and retailers never see articles before publication and have no say in what they contain. Affiliate links carry the sponsored attribute and a disclosure.

Corrections

If you find an error, write to us. Material corrections are logged with the date on the corrections page. Each article shows the date it was last reviewed.

Privacy of the tools

The dream interpreter and the dream journal run entirely in your browser. What you type is not sent to us or to any third party. See the privacy policy.