The background and the silhouette are the same pair of landscapes generated by a Generative Adversarial Network AI, which also generated the transition. One set of images generated from this was augmented with Deep Dream AI algorithm and lightened, the other was not, then the augmented set was trimmed individually to a silhouette profile and combined by hand with the unaugmented set to create the ghost effect. The images were then looped into a gif.

Psyche only believes she is awake to being awake because she is dreaming about dreams.