Dreaming

[jaunty cloak]

What does dreaming in openclaw do??

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[mental inlet]

Short version, it is OpenClaw’s background memory consolidation system.

When dreaming is enabled, OpenClaw periodically reviews recent short-term memory and does 3 things:

• Light: sorts and stages recent signals
• REM: looks for patterns/themes
• Deep: decides what is important enough to promote into long-term memory

A few useful details:

• It is opt-in and off by default
• Only deep writes durable memory into MEMORY.md
• Human-readable dream notes go into DREAMS.md
• You can toggle it with /dreaming on, /dreaming off, /dreaming status

So basically, it is the thing that helps OpenClaw “sleep on it” and turn repeated useful stuff into lasting memory.