The six lenses and the wider set

Everything DreamLayer does groups into six lenses — the product's mental model, kept in code as a registry (host-python/src/dreamlayer/lenses.py, with all_features, find_feature, and lens_of so the taxonomy is queryable). Two things run underneath all of them: the Privacy Veil (the spine) and Atmosphere (the ambient light: Inner Weather, the Prism Lens, Palette Cycling).

The core lenses have their own chapters (Oracle, Perception and memory, Truth, Saga, Privacy). This chapter covers the rest of the set — each fully wired into the orchestrator, each with a design spec under docs/.

Dream Mode and the night

Dream Mode (dream_mode/, spec docs/DREAM_MODE.md) is the double-tap world: the display steps through a starfield door and becomes an instrument rather than an assistant. While dreaming, camera and IMU frames feed the engine (on_scene_frame), the microphone FFT feeds it (on_audio_frame), and two card families render through the dedicated dream path on the device:

• Ghost Layer — world-anchored memory echoes. Stand where a memory lives and a pale WorldAnchorCard wakes, character by character.
• Synesthesia — a poetic six-word read of what the senses feel like, with a dominant color and a gestural sprite.

REM (rem/, spec docs/REM.md) is the sleep cycle: maybe_dream_tonight(charging) runs consolidation when the glasses charge at night, gated by NightWatch. It dreams over the day's memories, consolidates, produces a morning reel, and — the durable part — writes a RetrievalBias the Horizon reads: what the night decided matters is slightly brighter the next day.

Yesterlight (docs/YESTERLIGHT.md) folds yesterday's light back into today's ring; Premonition (docs/PREMONITION.md) is the forward twin — a RecurrenceModel sweeps for events that usually happen about now and ghosts them onto the Horizon as breathing-dim dots (never brighter than the real), hardening the model when a predicted event lands.

Atmosphere

• Inner Weather (docs/INNER_WEATHER.md) — your own climate, made visible: dream-sky weather driven by your day's texture, rendered through the dynamic palette slots.

A quiet dream sky (device Lua)	An anchor echo in weather (device Lua)

• Prism Lens (docs/PRISM_LENS.md) — the kaleidoscope, rebuilt in Lumen with spring bloom, breathing rotation, and counter-rotating halo rings, inside strict photosensitivity caps.
• Palette Cycle (docs/PALETTE_CYCLE.md) — slow ambient color flows through the leased slots (display/palette_cycle.lua).

World — look at anything

• Object Lens / Oracle-look (object_lens/, specs docs/OBJECT_LENS.md) — look_at_object(frame, facet=None|"own"|"ai"|"shop") builds a contextual panel for the thing in view. Providers plug in per domain (an AI provider backed by the tiered brain, a label provider, Rosetta for text); integration seams exist for a laptop, a car, a plant. The lens never identifies people — PERSON_LABELS enforcement keeps humans in the Social Lens's consented domain.
• Rosetta (rosetta.py) is the eye: text you look at — a menu, a sign — OCR'd and translated (translate_seen(text, target)). Puente (orchestrator/puente_bridge.py) is the ear: real-time speech translation into LiveCaptionCards. Complementary by design; they share card styling, not pipelines. Seams: OCR, the translation model, and the microphone.
• Waypath (find_way(subject, heading_deg)) — point-me-to-my-things: a bearing card from your heading to where the remembered object lives.

Truth's siblings

• Candor (check_consistency(claim), spec docs/COMMITMENT_DRIFT.md neighborhood) — the on-device self-consistency check: does this claim contradict what you have said and kept? Emits a ConsistencyCard; never touches the network. Veritas reuses its contradicts predicate for the speaker-against-themselves pass.
• Provenance Lens (trace_provenance(claim), docs/PROVENANCE_LENS.md) — where did this belief come from? Traces a claim to its origins and standing in your own record; pairs with the Answer.sources attribution that every brain answer carries.

Life — building and keeping

• Commitment Drift (docs/COMMITMENT_DRIFT.md) — promises as physics: states run blooming, healthy, drifting, cracking, shattered; nudge_commitment / keep_commitment / break_commitment move them; tick_drift raises the drift card as decay grows. The Horizon draws the arc; a broken promise shatters exactly once.

• Reality Compiler v2 (reality_compiler/, specs docs/rc_v2/) — the build-a-skill path: Rehearsal compiles a described procedure ("three rounds of two minutes, bell between") into a signed Figment — a budget-verified little program that runs on the glass stage with the button driving it. build_skill(name, text) is the orchestrator surface; the wire protocol has first-class figment put/swap/revoke/ack messages, and the phone's Rehearsal screen mirrors the score-and-repertoire model. The five recorded sessions under out/rc_v2/ (round timer, rolling rounds, spar night, a refused strobe — the safety path — and hot-swap revoke) are its executable spec, alongside docs/rc_v2/echo.md, loom.md, and rehearsal.md.

Together — Confluence

Confluence (confluence/, spec docs/CONFLUENCE.md) is two wearers, one sky: a consented bond entangles two Horizons; togetherness drifts and settles as you move through the day apart or together. TinCan sends a single tap down the wire as a gentle ping; weather gifts let one wearer send the other a sky. The orchestrator surface is attach_confluence(bonds, sky) / receive_confluence(wire) / outgoing_weather(), with a tap collector feeding single-clicks while dreaming. Timbre (docs/TIMBRE.md, People lens) gives known voices their own audio texture. The phone's Confluence screen presents the bond lifecycle; live two-device streaming is the pre-hardware seam.

Lucid Recall — the query router

lucid_recall/router.py is the ask-and-receive front door: it classifies a query (face keywords route to the Social Lens; fact keywords to the memory index and the tiered brain) and returns one HUD card. The AI knowledge tier folds into it — "ask about your own stuff" is Lucid Recall extended from memory to your files and mail.