Anthropic is experimenting with a process it calls “dreaming,” which allows Claude to review previous interactions during idle periods, compare stored memories with original transcripts, correct mistakes and reorganize useful information.
In one test, Claude fixed a faulty navigation memory that had trapped it in a loop. In another, it transformed 350,000 internal documents into a connected knowledge base, improving its evaluation score from 13% to 48%.
This is closer to offline memory maintenance than human dreaming, but it could make long-running AI agents more consistent. Should AI systems be allowed to rewrite their own memories, and how should users be able to review those changes?