Glossary

Every DreamLayer term of art, one line each. Chapter links go deeper.

• Anchor — a memory pinned to a place (subject + place); the source of "your bike is here" and the Ghost Layer's world echoes.
• Answer-ahead — the silent copilot that pre-fetches the answer when someone else asks a real question. Truth
• Anticipation — the engine tying place, time, and person into proactive cues (event / person / place). Perception and memory
• Atmosphere — the ambient layer under all lenses: Inner Weather, Prism, Palette Cycling.
• Brain (the) — the Mac mini knowledge node: index, panel, API. Brain app
• BrainRouter — the tiered router: device, then Mac mini, then opt-in cloud. AI Brain
• Candor — the on-device self-consistency check; Veritas reuses its contradiction predicate.
• Confluence — two wearers, one sky: bonds, TinCan pings, weather gifts. Lenses
• Commitment Drift — promises as physics: blooming, healthy, drifting, cracking, shattered.
• Discernment — the fusion of Veritas content, Truth Lens delivery, and speaker history into one stance (trust / note / caution / flag). Truth
• Dossier — what the ledger knows about a person: last seen, shared topics, last line.
• Dream Mode — the double-tap world: Ghost Layer echoes and Synesthesia. Lenses
• Earcon — a short identity sound (wake, hark, hark_urgent, look, chime). Earcons
• Figment — a signed, budget-verified little program the Reality Compiler runs on the glass stage.
• Focus — do-not-disturb: interruptions held, capture keeps running. Attention and focus
• Ghost Layer — Dream Mode's world-anchored memory echoes.
• Halo — Brilliant Labs' glasses; DreamLayer's launch device.
• Hark — the spoken tap on the shoulder: "Listen!" or the urgent "Watch out!". Attention and focus
• Horizon — the resting-state day ring; the display's home. Glasses experience
• Hub — the phone-side orchestrator process; the mind of the product.
• Incognito — capture paused, cloud forced off, for a session. Privacy
• Inner Weather — your own climate rendered as dream-sky weather.
• Lens — a product-level capability family; six of them, in code. Lenses
• Lucid Recall — ask-and-receive: the query router over memory, people, and (via the Brain) your files.
• Lumen — the motion half of Meridian: springs, palette light, particles, parallax. Meridian
• Meridian — the HUD design language; "the display is a place, not a stage."
• Oracle — the voice: wake, commands, persona, and the user model. Oracle
• Privacy Veil — one gesture, fully deaf and blind; the spine every lens respects. Privacy
• Premonition — recurring-pattern ghosts of the near future on the Horizon.
• Prism — the kaleidoscope lens (Atmosphere).
• Puente — the ear: live speech translation to caption cards.
• Reality Compiler — Rehearsal to Figment: describe a procedure, get a runnable on-glass skill.
• REM — the nightly consolidation cycle; its retrieval bias tunes the next day's Horizon.
• Rosetta — the eye: translate text you look at.
• Saga — progression: XP, levels, seven ranks, achievements. Progression
• Seam — a named point where tested software meets physical hardware. Hardware and seams
• Social Lens — recognizing your own people, consent-first; never strangers.
• Solid — the material half of Meridian: real type scale, glass panes, gradient ramps, blooms. Meridian
• Synesthesia — Dream Mode's six-word poetic sense read.
• Testimony thread — the Truth Lens gauge: nine stages around the ring, torn where deceptive.
• Three switches — Mac mini, Cloud, Incognito; independent, never a mode dial. Privacy
• Timbre — audio texture for known voices (People lens).
• TinCan — a single tap sent down the Confluence wire.
• Truth Lens — the nine-stage delivery read against a per-person baseline. Truth
• User model — the Oracle's small private profile of you; mirrored, never authored, by the Brain. Oracle
• Veritas — the live fact-checker: offline self-contradiction plus the tiered world check. Truth
• Waypath — point-me-to-my-things: a bearing card to a remembered object.
• Yesterlight — yesterday's light folded into today's ring.