Dream Studio (Memory Replay and Self-Update)

In the film, the dream studio spends the night re-cutting the day's footage and staging it. memOrb's dream studio does the same job: replay the orbs a stretch of time has accumulated, see which themes keep coming back, and decide whether to let them settle into core memories and beliefs.

This is the sole executor of step 5 of the distillation pipeline, Evaluate. Other skills record, query, and retire; only this one touches memorbs/HQ/Core/, memorbs/HQ/Belief/, and the current-state narrative on an Island.

Iron rule: stages 1-3 are analysis and discussion only. Write nothing to any Core, Belief, or Island file until the user has confirmed it item by item. Rewriting a person's sense of who they are is not something you do automatically.

How often to run

Monthly. Do not run it daily — the value of the dream comes from looking back after time has passed, and running it too often mistakes an ordinary day for a formative experience. Each run rotates log.md (see stage 5), so "since the last dream" is already the natural replay window.

Order of operations

Stage 1: Set the replay window (talk only)

1. Whatever is in memorbs/log.md is "since the last dream" — rotation guarantees it, so there is no interval to compute.
2. Read the file header to confirm the start date and check it with the user. For a longer window, also pull the back issues in memorbs/log/{YYYY-MM}.md.
3. The user may want to dream about one particular Island or one particular event; narrowing the scope is allowed.