"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!
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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.