A turn for the worse

Dear Sheppey, do you ever have those dreams that suddenly take a turn for the worse? This recent dream by willowherb-pink-9400 has one of these dramatic emotional shifts. Our dreamer is preparing a family dinner and the atmosphere is light and joyful. But when the dreamer returns to the table after preparing dessert something has gone badly wrong and they find everyone slumped over the table.

What do these emotional changes signify? It’s as if the dream is saying to us, ‘You think you know what kind of situation you’re in, but don’t get too comfy!’ The AI visualisation does a good job of representing the different emotional states in this dream. We see intergenerational groups sat around a table with strings of lights and laughter. Then the visualisation starts to seed some worry: a distorted head wobbles about, a wide-eyed child looks shocked or afraid while fiddling with her hair. Then we cut to darkness and there are indiscernible shapes on a tabletop, a woman’s face in a darkened room, bereft-looking figures stood around a deserted table. I like these visualisations that don’t take the dream descriptions literally, but find ways to represent them emotionally.