My Googled Dreams (In AI)

Billions and billions of human-generated images are flowing inside the internet’s arteries. I have a new project in the works, contributing to this clog - a part two of another project where I googled images from my dreams for a couple of years. Now I’m slinging a few of my dreams into an open AI program to see what comes out.

This particular dream involved a few yellow faeries, a sports car, and spring sun. I’m happy to report neither Google or the AI program can churn up the emotional responses from my dreams nor the people or critters or plants that make appearances in them.

The Knot

The knot took me outside, back to its rooted wood, with bark threads and moss and lichen. I climbed up its truck without ropes or spiked shoes and swung from its branches. I was all hair and ape with sticks in my fingers for boring bug holes. The knot lured me down from its canopy, onto wet dirt. I shed hair there, from my arms, then my legs, from my belly and breasts. Only the hair on my head remained, tangled in leaves and mud.

Sawdust

Some musings on wood - now up on Plant-Human Quarterly.