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Welcome to my dream diary!

As an avid player of Yume Nikki, LSD Dream Emulator and the countless fangames based off of them, I've been interested in the surreal and absurd beauty of dream-like Internet aesthetics for a while. I love browsing Instagram to look at liminal space pictures and dreamcore collages, and I'm fascinated by Suzanne Treister's Fictional Videogame Stills.

I've read Hiroko Nishikawa's Lovely Sweet Dream (the catalyst for LSD Dream Emulator's creation) many times. I can never get enough of seeing her dreams illustrated by many different artists in such a beautiful collection. The idea of a surreal vision with no particular meaning materialising in the real world through art and collaborative work fascinates me.

My humble dream diary is here in the hopes of inspiring others to create something: Maybe a situation, a place or a person that doesn't exist but that I saw once in a dream will resonate with you. Please do not try psychoanalyse me or my dreams. They're figments of my subconscious, not here to be explained or dissected, but here to be enjoyed like a nice, surreal cup of tea.

"There's a difference between actual dreams and remembered dreams. Even the ones recorded in my dream diary are different from the real thing. The dreams reconstructed by the artists that read them are different as well... Don't try to analyze them or read too much into them; just enjoy this book as if walking through a dream."

- Hiroko Nishikawa, on Lovely Sweet Dream