diff --git a/dalle2_pytorch/cli.py b/dalle2_pytorch/cli.py
index 9e89f0d..aca5267 100644
--- a/dalle2_pytorch/cli.py
+++ b/dalle2_pytorch/cli.py
@@ -1,9 +1,51 @@
 import click
+import torch
+import torchvision.transforms as T
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from dalle2_pytorch import DALLE2, Decoder, DiffusionPrior
+
+def safeget(dictionary, keys, default = None):
+    return reduce(lambda d, key: d.get(key, default) if isinstance(d, dict) else default, keys.split('.'), dictionary)
+
+def simple_slugify(text, max_length = 255):
+    return text.replace("-", "_").replace(",", "").replace(" ", "_").replace("|", "--").strip('-_')[:max_length]
+
+def get_pkg_version():
+    from pkg_resources import get_distribution
+    return get_distribution('dalle2_pytorch').version
 
 def main():
     pass
 
 @click.command()
+@click.option('--model', default = './dalle2.pt', help = 'path to trained DALL-E2 model')
+@click.option('--cond_scale', default = 2, help = 'conditioning scale (classifier free guidance) in decoder')
 @click.argument('text')
-def dream(text):
-    return 'not ready yet'
+def dream(
+    model,
+    cond_scale,
+    text
+):
+    model_path = Path(model)
+    full_model_path = str(model_path.resolve())
+    assert model_path.exists(), f'model not found at {full_model_path}'
+    loaded = torch.load(str(model_path))
+
+    version = safeget(loaded, 'version')
+    print(f'loading DALL-E2 from {full_model_path}, saved at version {version} - current package version is {get_pkg_version()}')
+
+    prior_init_params = safeget(loaded, 'init_params.prior')
+    decoder_init_params = safeget(loaded, 'init_params.decoder')
+    model_params = safeget(loaded, 'model_params')
+
+    prior = DiffusionPrior(**prior_init_params)
+    decoder = Decoder(**decoder_init_params)
+
+    dalle2 = DALLE2(prior, decoder)
+    dalle2.load_state_dict(model_params)
+
+    image = dalle2(text, cond_scale = cond_scale)
+
+    pil_image = T.ToPILImage()(image)
+    return pil_image.save(f'./{simple_slugify(text)}.png')
diff --git a/dalle2_pytorch/dalle2_pytorch.py b/dalle2_pytorch/dalle2_pytorch.py
index cf0870f..35f3d1a 100644
--- a/dalle2_pytorch/dalle2_pytorch.py
+++ b/dalle2_pytorch/dalle2_pytorch.py
@@ -1451,6 +1451,7 @@ class DALLE2(nn.Module):
         cond_scale = 1.
     ):
         device = next(self.parameters()).device
+        one_text = isinstance(text, str) or (not is_list_str(text) and text.shape[0] == 1)
 
         if isinstance(text, str) or is_list_str(text):
             text = [text] if not isinstance(text, (list, tuple)) else text
@@ -1458,4 +1459,8 @@ class DALLE2(nn.Module):
 
         image_embed = self.prior.sample(text, num_samples_per_batch = self.prior_num_samples)
         images = self.decoder.sample(image_embed, cond_scale = cond_scale)
+
+        if one_text:
+            return images[0]
+
         return images