DeepDreaming

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noun

The use of a convolutional neural network to find and enhance patterns in images via algorithmic pareidolia, thus creating a dream-like appearance reminiscent of a psychedelic experience in the deliberately overprocessed images.

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Meanings

nounDeepDreaming (uncountable)
  1. uncountableThe use of a convolutional neural network to find and enhance patterns in images via algorithmic pareidolia, thus creating a dream-like appearance reminiscent of a psychedelic experience in the deliberately overprocessed images.

    #DeepDreaming is already as easy as a "click to upload" online tool.

    2015 August 3, Emerson Rosenthal, “Google's Deep Dream for Dummies”, in Vice, archived from the original on 05 Aug 2021
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    Many websites allow you to play directly with DeepDreaming. […] After the initial results presented in 2015, many new additional papers and blog postings were presented about DeepDreaming: […]

    2017, Antonio Gulli, Amita Kapoor, TensorFlow 1.x Deep Learning Cookbook: Over 90 unique recipes to solve artificial-intelligence driven problems with Python, Packt, →ISBN, page 153

    The term “dream,” however, has been used—albeit metaphorically—in connection with a technique, DeepDreaming, discovered by Alex Mordvintsev of Google Artists and Machine Intelligence [AMI], while analyzing the operations at work in the process of recognition using artificial neural network.

    2020, Neil Leach, “Do Robots Dream of Digital Buildings?”, in Philip F. Yuan, Mike Xie, Neil Leach, Jiawei Yao, Xiang Wang, editors, Architectural Intelligence: Selected Papers from the 1st International Conference on Computational Design and Robotic Fabrication (CDRF 2019), Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd, published 2022, →ISBN, page 61

    MdC [Matias del Campo]: I am pretty sure it is probably the first built project that used DeepDreaming and style transfers as a design method.

    2022, “Interview: Matias del Campo”, in Dimensions, volume 35, A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, →ISSN, page 089, column 2

Origin

From DeepDream + -ing.

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DeepDreaming. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/DeepDreaming

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“DeepDreaming.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/DeepDreaming. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “DeepDreaming,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/DeepDreaming.

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