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Dr. Ferrous 🧁<p>Oh wow, more yucky dreams. I guess I’ll have more to talk to my therapist about tonight? Still, I don’t like the residual shadow. </p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/dreams" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dreams</span></a></p>
Knitronomicon<p>Weird dream: I was at a busy/large port, seeing some people off on a cruise (I think?), with someone who felt like Agent Coulson, from the MCU. The passengers had all gone through to the ship, &amp; we were given some envelopes of stuff that they needed to have. I was going to take it to them; I had to go through a gate where I was scanned, &amp; went up a moving walkway &amp; through a wide passage, then down a sort of sloping but stepped travelator to get to the dockside. I got down, and saw a large boat just pulling away from the dock, thought 'Rats! I've missed them!' ... and realised that it wasn't the cruise ship, which was bottom up a bit further out. Well, there was nothing I could do, so I went back up the travelator, but at the top the passage had become a maze, so it took me ages to get back to 'Coulson', &amp; I was just explaining what had happened when I woke up. <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/dreams" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dreams</span></a></p>
#Spider #Totem, 2014

I have been on #deviantart for 15 years and found great enjoyment in the community there. However, things have changed over the years - the latest being the implementation of AI. #AIhasDestroyedArtPlatforms. I have been reluctant to share new art there. I can no longer find enjoyment in finding new artists there because the majority of new submissions are AI-generated and flooding the system. It has absolutely destroyed the community for me. Anyhoo, I am grateful for discovering #Pixelfed. I decided to transfer my art over before I finally decide to #deleteDeviantArt. I'd also like to give a home to my older work before posting my new and more recent stuff, so bare with me.

This is both a #photomanipulation and #digitalpainting I made back in 2014. Its meant to symbolize the magic of spiders and their divine craftsmanship.

I love the quote: "Weave your creative threads in the dark, and then when the sun hits them, they will glisten with intricate beauty." (Ted Andrews)

This creation was originally inspired by recurring #dreams of spiders which I interpreted as a reminder to restore balance in my hectic lifestyle, to take control and weave my fate, and reacquaint myself with my #creativity once more. Because even in the most stagnant and darkest times, there is room for inspiration and creativity.

#GoodbyeDeviantArt #helloPixelfed #fediart #art #moonlightart #moonlight #magical #inthetrees #mastoart #creativetoots #noaiart #noai
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CREDITS:
Spider - https://www.deviantart.com/candycoatedbullets/art/spider-stock-98182880
#Spiderweb - https://www.deviantart.com/cathleentarawhiti/art/Spiderweb-303985882
#Moth - https://www.deviantart.com/hatestock/art/moths-and-butterflies-stock-5-73251039
#Leaves - https://www.textures.com/download/trees-0046/53493
#Moon - https://www.deviantart.com/tala-stock/art/Full-Moon-80726496

Anyone remember pressing their nose to a CRT television and seeing the RGB grille?

Had a dream I was looking at my cellphone. I eventually scrolled to an image that had sort of a CRT grille effect filter, except...

It looked odd, so I instinctively pressed my nose against the cellphone screen.

Whomever had made the image had hidden extra visual information within the image. It felt like one of those magic eye images but on steroids.

In addition to photography, I use my skills in photo-manip/digital art to tell a story. Created 2014 NOT AI! See Vid below.

Children are given the benediction of "Sweet Dreams" at bedtime. Here I present a child's imagination turning a toy boat into a dreamship to sail celestial seas. Imagination & dreams can take you anywhere you choose to set sail.

A Star to Steer By -- chrystyne-novack.pixels.com/fe

Are you having more dreams and/or nightmares lately? I feel the nightmarish state of the world has infiltrated into my dreams #poll #dreams #nightmare

I slept in and had so many dreams. I’m invited by colleagues to a fancy dinner honoring a scientist guest speaker. I know everyone, arrive a bit late and there are no seats. I introduce myself to the speaker and be shrinks into his seat exhausted. The female faculty are chatting forever. I wish I had wine.

Walking the Fish

My dreams can be really vivid and detailed, but this latest one sets a new record for surrealism.

It started off "normally" enough. I was helping someone pack up to move that day. The movers were there, but they hadn't finished getting everything in boxes. I was up in the attic picking individual beads up off the floor and putting them in boxes, and getting very frustrated.

Then things shifted. I was on the front steps of the house, and it was inside a huge mall. The street was busy with people walking to their houses or stopping at shops. And the friend I was with had a collection of sea animals with them on the porch. There was a mallard, a number of ducklings, several types of fish (yes, hanging out on the porch steps), some black, plastic-looking, flying fish, and some crab-like animals. My friend decided that we needed to take them to the shore, so off they went, followed by ducks, ducklings [I've actually done this with a duckling once at a music festival, got some really odd looks and a lot of "Excuse me, do you know there's a duck following you?" remarks], the fish, and the crustaceans.

I tailed along behind trying to get the stragglers to keep up. At one point I had to pick up one of the flying fish to get it back on track. It was like those 3D wood dinosaurs you see where it's almost like a slinky, with a series of hollow slices of wood making up the fish. Except it was like black plastic, and when I picked it up it kind of collapsed and hung there, much longer since all the components were hanging off of each other. I hurriedly put it back down.

We got to the shore. They all popped into the water for a bit, but soon my friend needed to get back to the house. But he was in a hurry, so I was way behind trying to make sure everyone got there. We got back to the house and I realized some were missing. So I ran back to the shore. There all I found was a crab. It didn't look familiar, I was sure it was new, but when I started back, it wanted to follow me. So back to the house I go, followed by the crab. At one point we passed a movie theatre and the crowd got really tight. To stay safe the crab jumped up onto my head and hung on to my hair until we got through. Finally we got home and it ran up onto the steps with the ducks, ducklings, fish and other crustaceans.

I have NO idea what that all means.