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Recent advancements in the realm of text-to-image synthesis have emerged from diffusion models that have been trained on vast amounts of image-text pairs. To successfully transition this methodology to 3D synthesis, it would necessitate extensive datasets of labeled 3D assets alongside effective architectures for denoising 3D information, both of which are currently lacking. In this study, we address these challenges by leveraging a pre-existing 2D text-to-image diffusion model to achieve text-to-3D synthesis. We propose a novel loss function grounded in probability density distillation that allows a 2D diffusion model to serve as a guiding principle for the optimization of a parametric image generator. By implementing this loss in a DeepDream-inspired approach, we refine a randomly initialized 3D model, specifically a Neural Radiance Field (NeRF), through gradient descent to ensure its 2D renderings from various angles exhibit a minimized loss. Consequently, the 3D representation generated from the specified text can be observed from multiple perspectives, illuminated with various lighting conditions, or seamlessly integrated into diverse 3D settings. This innovative method opens new avenues for the application of 3D modeling in creative and commercial fields.