#98: Dreamy

Daydreams, night dreams, and everything in between

AI allows me to dream up worlds of bright colors that I can temporarily escape to. I created a “wet watercolors” moodboard about a month ago and made the image below with it.

I often experience fragments of dreams as I’m falling asleep. One night, I saw a hippo dancing in one of them. I was greatly amused and tried to recreate what I’d seen.

Last week I had a dream fragment of a small boy with dark, sparkling eyes, throwing his arms up in delight. I tried to convince Midjourney to make what I’d seen but wasn’t successful. I did, however, create a number of images of a child with similar eyes who was delighted by the colorful butterflies around her.

I’m not sure exactly what I was trying to make when Midjourney coughed up the image below, but I liked it.

My favorite lighthouse on the Oregon coast is at the mouth of the Coquille River, and I tried to recreate it with AI. There is a lot of grass around the real lighthouse but I can’t honestly say it’s as pretty as my fantasy version.

In other news, I had to buy a new phone.¹ I created several lock screens for it using the “wet watercolors” moodboard, one of which is below.²

I can’t blame the next picture on any kind of dream, day, night, or otherwise. I all of a sudden began wanting to create roosters and couldn’t stop for a while. It was a bit like my fascination with owls a couple of years ago.

There may very well be more roosters in your future. Cock-a-doodle-doo!

1. The phone I replaced was a Google Pixel 8 that I’d had well under a year and a half. It was just past its warranty period when it bit the dust. Never again.

2. If you’d like to use this image for your phone’s lock screen, just reply to this email and let me know — I’ll send you a link to a larger version.