The new DreamDiffusion, being a working ‘brainwaves to AI generated pictures’ headset.

Quantitative and qualitative results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method as a significant step towards portable and low-cost ‘thoughts-to-image’

Suddenly, Lovecraft’s early “Beyond the Wall of Sleep” (1919) seems rather prescient…

[I] place[d] upon his head and mine the two ends of my cosmic “radio”; hoping against hope for a first and last message from the dream-world in the brief time remaining. […] As I gazed, I perceived that my own brain held the key to these enchanting metamorphoses; for each vista which appeared to me, was the one my changing mind most wished to behold.

Though he never thought of hooking up a dreaming octopus. Oh, wait… actually he kind-of did do that, with Cthulhu’s worldwide emanation of dream-visions into the minds of men…

There lay great Cthulhu and his hordes, hidden in green slimy vaults and sending out at last, after cycles incalculable, the thoughts that spread fear to the dreams of the sensitive and called imperiously to the faithful to come on a pilgrimage of liberation and restoration.