[dartos]

Of course, due to the very nature of dreams, your awareness of diffusion models and their output flavors how you perceive even past dreams.

Our brains love retroactively altering fuzzy memories.

[hombre_fatal]

On the other hand, psychedelics give you perceptions similar to even early deepdream genai images.

On LSD, I was swimming in my friend’s pool (for six hours…) amazed at all the patterns on his pool tiles underwater. I couldn’t get enough. Every tile had a different sophisticated pattern.

The next day I went back to his place (sober) and commented on how cool his pool tiles were. He had nfi what I was talking about.

I walk out to the pool and sure enough it’s just a grid of small featureless white tiles. Upon closer inspection they have a slight grain to them. I guess my brain was connecting the dots on the grain and creating patterns.

It was quite a trip to be so wrong about reality.

Not really related to your claim I guess but I haven’t thought of this story in 10 years and don’t want to delete it.

[Jackson__]

This may be a joke, but counting your fingers to lucid dream has been a thing for a lot longer than diffusion models.

That being said, your reality will influence your dreams if you're exposed to some things enough. I used to play minecraft on a really bad PC back in the day, and in my lucid dreams I used to encounter the same slow chunk loading as I saw in the game.

[timschmidt]

Playing Population One in VR did this to me. Whenever I hopped into a new game, I'd ask the other participants if they'd had particularly vivid dreams since getting VR, and more than half of folks said they had.