# MiniMax shares a dreamcore image prompt of a man at a CRT computer in daisies

> Original title: A little dreamcore for your workday.

- Source: MiniMax
- Published: 2026-11-11T15:25:05.000Z
- Bad Influence: https://badinfluence.news/items/g8ru5h8dbqjp4ela16bk9juzm
- Original: https://x.com/MiniMax_AI/status/2120538308925128843

## Summary

MiniMax posts a surrealist image prompt for a lone office worker seated at a vintage CRT desktop in an endless field of white daisies. The prompt specifies a 9:16 vertical composition, a Kodak Portra 400 film look, and a warm late-afternoon light.

## Post

A little dreamcore for your workday.
From creator. 

Prompt: A surrealist photograph with intense poetic sensibility and quiet absurdity, fusing Dreamcore aesthetics, minimalist conceptual photography, vintage film texture, and contemporary fine-art photography.
In the middle of a boundless sea of white daisies, a middle-aged man in a light blue shirt and dark trousers sits alone on a modern office chair, diligently working at an old-fashioned CRT desktop computer.
In front of him sits a clean, deep blue-gray office desk, holding a heavy vintage computer monitor, a keyboard, and a few sparse office items.
His expression is calm and focused, as if entirely unaware of the strangeness of his surroundings. His posture is natural, with no exaggerated performance or forced humor.
The desk and chair are placed directly in the center of the flower field, with no surrounding office, road, or man-made structure — only an endless expanse of white daisies stretching to the horizon.
The composition is minimal and strongly symmetrical, shot from a distance. The figure and desk sit slightly below center, occupying only a small portion of the frame.
The flower field extends from the foreground all the way to the far horizon, where densely packed white daisies form a continuous, finely textured carpet.
The horizon line falls roughly one-third from the top of the frame, allowing the sky to occupy a large area of negative space — a soft, clean pale blue, free of complex cloud formations.
Warm late-afternoon sunlight enters from the side, casting soft golden highlights across the white petals, the man’s face, and the desk. The shadows carry a faint blue-violet hue, producing a warm-cool contrast that feels both tender and romantic.
The overall palette centers on sky blue, cream white, daisy yellow, soft grass green, and muted gray-blue — low contrast, slightly faded, soft and luminous.
Emulates Kodak Portra 400 color negative film: fine film grain, gentle highlight rolloff, natural skin tones, and slightly dreamlike color rendering.
Shot from a slightly distant observational perspective, with authentic natural light, realistic plant textures, and believable object shadows — lending the impossible scene the full credibility of documentary photography.
The overall mood is quiet, absurd, romantic, solitary, and tinged with dry humor — like a moment from a dream no one has bothered to explain.
Surreal everyday photography, dreamcore aesthetic, minimalist absurdism, conceptual fine art photography, lonely office worker in a field of daisies, vintage CRT computer, endless flower meadow, pastel blue sky, warm afternoon sunlight, subtle analog film grain, poetic surrealism, cinematic realism.
Vertical 9:16 composition, no text, no watermarks.

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