Well, there it is… I didn’t vomit.

I have always had a lot of dreams. Every night I dream. All sorts of dreams. And I have always written down the ones I remember clearly enough. So, since this AI thing broke I have been toying around, trying to find something fun/ interesting/ valuable to do with these dreams.

I was never looking for any kind of therapy or outside interpretation. I have no interest in what other people think about what is truly our own individual language. Just thinking about the tone people take when trying to explain such a thing makes me ill. Perhaps getting more out of the process for myself would be nice, but in the end I have been simply playing around.

There was a dream that had a notably dark and tense emotion with it, so I put my simple description of the dream into Google Gemini and told it to “Write a scene to a noir mystery in the style of Elmore Leonard using the following dream: …” First, the output was certainly fun, but then I noticed that it was seemingly “insightful.”

The AI did not offer me any insight or wisdom. It simply did what I told it to. However, the story it created enabled me to see two aspects of the dream that I didn’t see otherwise. I stumbled upon a way to look at dreams from different angles that doesn’t make me want to vomit.