The seduction of a complete picture
Image models are very good at continuity. Give them a room and they supply walls; mention a person and they supply a face. These additions make an image coherent, but coherence is not the same as fidelity. A dream may contain a person whose presence was certain while their face was never seen.
What the dreamer actually gave us
At Dream Window, the original words remain the source. We distinguish what the dreamer explicitly described, what was felt or sensed, and what the painter must propose in order to make an image. The third layer is sometimes necessary. It should never become invisible.
A different idea of progress
A better second image is not automatically sharper, richer, or more cinematic. It may remove a doorway that was never mentioned. It may loosen the outline of a body. It may leave a region of the picture unresolved—not as a fog effect, but because the dream did not give that region a form.
The question we are testing
Can an image remain compelling while showing the limits of what is known? This is still an open design and research question. Our current belief is that a truthful gap can carry more of a dream than a confident invention.