DREAM CORE
Dreamcore is a surreal internet aesthetic that emerged in the early 2020s focusing on visuals inspired by dreams. Its imagery is often settings which can be computer-generated or edited to evoke a dream like quality, using a bright, surreal, or hazy atmosphere to create nostalgia and comfort. While its settings are comprised of liminal spaces these spaces can be edited to elicit a dreamy look.
Key values:
To portray events and things within dreams; nostalgia, anemoia, or comfort; questioning self-identity and reality
Weird core
Weirdcore is a surreal internet aesthetic centered on amateur or low-quality photography and visual images. These images are constructed or edited to evoke feelings of confusion, disorientation, dread, alienation, and nostalgia or anemoia. Visually, Weirdcore is influenced by the general look of images shared on the internet from the late 1990s to the mid-2000s. Common visual elements include amateur editing, primitive digital graphics, low-fidelity photography, and image compression. While the aesthetic gained popularity in the early 2020s, its elements have existed since the early internet.
Key values:
Confusion, disorientation, dread, alienation, nostalgia (anemoia), dreamlike states, distorted perception, the unfamiliar within the familiar, unease, comfort (paradoxically), curiosity, questioning of reality
Welcome to my page of weird and dream cores!