Digital art, Generate an image of a high school student proudly wearing a heart-shaped pin with the colors of the LGBTQ+ pride flags, only to later tear it apart and throw it away in a bathroom stall, but then discovering the next day that it had been taped back together and prominently displayed in the middle school cafeteria among dozens of other similar pins.

Imagine Being Gay

Date: 8/28/2019

By Xiileaf

(Not in Dream) Surprisingly, I took a nap after school, and also surprisingly, remembered my dream. It’s been quite a few days since I remembered my last dream. Unfortunately though, I did not lucid dream. (In Dream) I’m not really sure where it started, but I remember having some sort of sticker or paper/plastic badge on my shirt. It was in the shape of a heart. It had the colors of the lesbian flag (...maybe bi? Probably not) on the top part and the demisexual flag colors on the bottom. My dream wasn’t vivid enough to actually see the colors other than pink (blue...) and grey. At first I was proud to be wearing it down the halls of my high school. Suddenly I appeared in a bathroom, took it off, ripped it in half down the middle, and put it in the garbage can in the bathroom stall for feminine products. I walked out of the bathroom and felt instantly better having taken it off. I think Chloe went into the bathroom after I had. I passed her on the way out of the bathroom. She must have looked in the feminine products trash because the next day, my heart pin/sticker was taped together and was shown on a huge piece of paper with two other pins from other people’s shirts. Mine was smack-dab in the middle. Two others were next to mine on either side and placed a bit higher than mine. All three pins were in the middle. Then there were two more groups (apparently). There were a couple more than a dozen pins (counted together) in the other two categories. I don’t know what they are, other than they’re still LGBTQ+ categories because the whole paper was like that. The paper was actually in the middle school cafeteria, even if it was connected to the high school. (Not in Dream) I basically woke up after that. It took me a couple minutes to realize I was awake and that I had dreamt that. Ugh.

AI generated interpretation This dream could represent your inner conflict around being open about your own sexual orientation. You start off proudly wearing the symbols of the lesbian and demisexual flags on your shirt, which could signify that you are open to exploring and accepting your own sexuality. However, you then take the badge off and discard it, a sign that you are not ready to be so open with yourself or with others. The dream then shifts to the middle school cafeteria, suggesting that you are still in a stage of development and exploration, trying to figure out how to express your sexuality in a safe and comfortable way. Finally, the presence of the other pins could symbolize the many different ways that other people identify and express their sexuality, emphasizing the importance of acceptance and understanding.