Dreams are sources of inspiration for artists tapping into their subconscious states, but the uncertainty of fragmented elements and difficulty of recall make it challenging to harness dream-based inspiration for creative work. Generative AI shares a similar ambiguity with dreams, producing unexpected outputs that offer reinterpretation in the creative process. It suggests GenAI may help engage...
April 13, 2026Yifan Zhao, Yuxin Fang, Yihuan Chen et al.1 citation
People who experienced near-death events often turn to personal expression as a way of processing trauma and articulating beliefs. While scholars have examined how individuals share near-death experiences (NDEs), limited research has explored how these narratives are communicated collaboratively on today’s social media platforms. We analyzed 200 randomly sampled TikTok videos tagged with #nde...
People who experienced near-death events often turn to personal expression as a way of processing trauma and articulating beliefs. While scholars have examined how individuals share near-death experiences (NDEs), limited research has explored how these narratives are communicated collaboratively on today's social media platforms. We analyzed 200 randomly sampled TikTok videos tagged with #nde...
Our dreams are so fleeting that every time we try to recall them, we reinterpret them anew. To explore how human psyche can iterative reconstruct dreams to re-imagine dream content in novel contexts, we created a workflow whereby one dream recorder wrote down eight distinct dreams, and three dream interpreters use these narrative fragments to visually recreate these subconscious experiences...