"I crossed a river of burgers" – funny new site Photoshops your dreams
Step aside Freud with your tedious dream analysis and your dirty mind, Photoshop Your Dreams is here with an altogether more entertaining alternative. 26 year-old Margaux Espinasse is web project manager based in Berlin, and she’s just set up the site, which asks readers to submit their dreams in order for her to recreate them in Photoshop.
It’s a simple offering but a surprisingly entertaining one, created along very similar lines to cult site Jim’ll Paint It, except with dreams instead of fantasies, and Photoshop instead of MS Paint. “It actually all started with one of my dreams,” Margaux explains to us. “I woke up three weeks ago after an amazing dream where I was chased by flying octopuses (probably because I watch a few too many Nat Geo and BBC documentaries). I tried to tell a friend about this dream and then I realised that the best way to communicate it was to make a montage of it.
“A few friends were quite excited by the idea and sent me their dreams. I put them online on Tumblr and very quickly I saw that people liked the idea.” Dreams are famously the single dullest topic of conversation, so Photoshop Your Dreams is full of promise as a way to inject some interest into them. “I have a real pleasure in trying to represent something that another brain imagined.” And when that something is jumping joyfully across the rooftops of Paris with a 90s Brad Pitt, so do we!
Photoshop My Dreams: “I was swimming in really blue, tropical water in Tahiti when I suddenly realised that there were sharks all around me. So I swam as fast as I could to a tiny sand island just above the water. I stood up but the sharks swam through the island and chased me so I ran around in a circle to avoid them.” – Alice
Photoshop My Dreams: “I was in squalid toilet, I didn’t know where to sit… I was bleeding but I didn’t have my period. Someone told me “Your DNA is mixed with the killer’s one”. And then I received a call on my phone from “Cyril serial killer." – Anne-So
Photoshop My Dreams: “I was in a backpackers’ hostel where there was a two kilometre soil desert separating my room from the reception. I left my room and suddenly faced a group of militaries with tanks shooting towards the reception. After a few seconds, a man holding a kalashnikov turned around and shot me. I was dead. I got out of my body then and headed hastily to the reception.” – Caroline
Photoshop My Dreams: “I was at the police station, with my mum and a cop. The cop left for a moment, so my mum gave me some cocaine and weed and told me, ‘protect your brother.’ I left the police station, but I had to cross a river full of burgers. I went inside very slowly even if I tried to be fast.” – Clémence
Photoshop My Dreams: “I was in a city with traditional European architecture. I was parkour jumping from rooftop to rooftop and balcony to balcony and I was accompanied by Brad Pitt (the long-haired 90s version of Brad Pitt). He looked beautiful as he parkoured along with me with his blonde hair flowing in the wind. It wasn’t even awkward too because we were like really good friends and I cracked jokes with him. He would laugh along to my jokes and we just had a really good time parkouring.” – Daniel
Photoshop My Dreams: “My friend and I were on our way to investigate a haunted house in a city but we had to stop at the Hot Dog Shoppe in Warren, Ohio, for hot dogs and chili fries.”- Deena
Photoshop My Dreams: “I dreamt I passed my driving license on a tricycle.” – Gabrielle
Photoshop My Dreams: “I was in a church in the USA, to sing in a gospel choir composed of white people and the public was only composed of black people. But I was naked. I forgot to print the lyrics, and I didn’t know them." – Lucie
Photoshop My Dreams: “I was running in a field of flames, chased by flying octopuses. I was really scared and my only weapons were fireworks.” – Margaux
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Maisie joined It’s Nice That fresh out of university in the summer of 2013 as an intern before joining full time as an Assistant Editor. Maisie left It’s Nice That in July 2015.