The weather of the dream.

Most mood trackers give you happy-to-sad on a slider, which is useful for exactly zero dreams. Epona's moods are words. Each one is a specific shade of feeling that a dream left you with. You do not rate the intensity. You just name it. Weightless is not the same as tender, and vast is not the same as distant, and the library of moods exists because those shadings are the thing you actually remember when you wake up.

You write the dream first. The mood picker waits on the side for when you are ready, and it is a single tap per mood. You can pick more than one. You can skip it entirely. The product is stubborn about not making mood a required field, because a required field at 6 a.m. is the thing that stops people from writing the dream in the first place. Mood is a thing you add when you have the energy.

The moods view reads your history as an emotional timeline. You see which moods run through your year and which show up only in specific seasons. Anxious weeks cluster around specific life events. Tender dreams show up in a stretch you had not noticed was tender. A year of moods is often a more honest summary of a year of your sleeping life than a year of the narratives themselves. This is where the feature quietly earns its keep.

Each mood also has its own public page that lists dreams from all users who published with that mood. If you wake up uneasy and want to read other people's uneasy dreams, you can. It turns out that reading ten uneasy dreams in a row is the fastest way to stop feeling alone with your own uneasy dream. The public mood pages are one of the small places where the plaza does something a regular social network simply cannot do.

A staircase dream that felt weightless is a different dream from a staircase dream that felt ominous, even if the content looks the same on paper. Running a dream against both axes at once, the symbol library and the mood library, produces readings that no single-axis tracker can get to. This is the part of the product that you only notice around dream thirty, when you realize Epona is cross-referencing two things you did not think were related.

Moods are stored alongside the dream text and follow the same rules. Private dreams keep their moods private. Published dreams show the mood on the public page only if you chose to include it in the publish. You can leave moods off a published dream and keep them to yourself, and you can tag private dreams with moods that never appear anywhere but your own codex. The axis is yours. You decide how much of it anybody else sees.