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Final poster

Final Proposal 2#

Topic: Dreams
Title: Dreamspace

Background:
Dreams are images, thoughts, sounds, or emotions that pass through our mind when we sleep. Everyone dreams. It is just a matter of whether we remember it or not. Everyone’s dream is unique as it is connected with our own reality-background and experiences. Study shows that dreams help you to tackle stress. Dreaming is a necessity as it helps to recharge mind and revitalize your body.

Some individuals believe that dreams can see into the future. There is no scientific proof yet that dreams may predict our future but there are many cases where people dreams and it eventually came true.

Type of dreams:
- daydreams
- false awakening dreams
- lucid dreams
- nightmares
- recurring dreams
- healing dreams
- prophetic dreams
- signal dreams
- epic dreams

Example of common dreams:
- Teeth Dreams
- Chase Dreams
- Falling Dreams
- Flying Dreams
- Naked Dreams
- Test Dreams

Problem Identification:
We have dreams every night whether we remember it or not but we seldom recall our dreams and we have never thought of the purpose of our dreams.

Aim & Objectives:
- to experience dreams when we are awake
- to explore dreams
- to show that dreams and reality are connected

Ideation & Concept:
The installation will consists of a bed, a pillow, and an alarm clock at the bedside. A video of a human’s head sleeping will be projected on a pillow. The eyes are closed, but movement of eyes under the eyelids can be seen. This is a sleeping stage called Rapid Eye Movement (REM) where dreams occur. A hot spot will be set at the entrance of where the installation is. When audience enters the place, the hot spot will be triggered, and visual of different types of dreams will be projected on the pillow randomly and sound effects will be generated. This is to show that dreams are connected with reality. When the audience touches on the alarm clock, the dreams disappear, the human awakes and the head reappear with the eyes open.

Motivation:
I dream every night whether it is something odd, strangers which I have never met before or repeated dreams and I have always been wondering the meaning of these dreams, the reason of my dreams.


The picture will tells everything.

*click for larger image

Slight change of idea

Somehow, ............................................
I don't really like my current idea.






-will update soon-

Scientists closer to visualizing dreams

Another interesting article that I found while I was doing research for my sri:
http://www.livemint.com/2008/03/06125805/Scientists-closer-to-visualizi.html

It says that the scientist in US have developed a mind-reading technique that will help them to analyze brain activity.

This means the possibility in the future to visualize scenes from someone’s dream by analyzing their brain activity with a medical scanner is higher.

* i would rather keep my dreams to myself >.<

The Dream Machine

This work of art is meant to be looked at with your eyes closed.

Dreams are projections

I was looking for references about dreams and reality, been searching it for few days, until i came across this website.
http://www.crystalinks.com/dreams.html

It has many interesting facts about dreams with nice images.
One of it is how the ancient civilizations (egypt, rome, celtic, greece, japan, china, indian, muslim, etc.....) recorded their dreams and their points of view towards dreams.

Idea & Content Development IV

Keyboard Hacking




























It's working!!

* Thanks to norman, the picasso group for their previous keyboard hack. At least I have a sample for me to continue on with other switches.

Idea & Content Development III

Since I am focusing on nightmare, recurring dream, lucid dream and daydream, I will do more research on these 4 dreams so that I can have a better understanding to visualize the dreams.

Idea & Content Development II

I am planning to do something like this for my installation. I will place all the objects on table. The top view of the objects will be shown on screen and the visual of dreams will only appear when user touch on any objects on the table.

As for the technical part, I will use keyboard hacking. A switch will be placed under each objects so that it will triggers visuals on screen when the user touch on the objects.
Other equipments that i need will include a projector and a webcam.















Since I am not good in wiring and technical part, I will just keep my installation simple and focus more on the visual part.

Content & Idea Development I

After squeezing my brain for weeks, I finally came out with this idea. Instead of using cubes, I will use objects to represent each dreams.

I have decided to focus on only 4 types of dreams which is nightmare, daydream, recurring dream and lucid dream.

nightmare - mask (mysterious, scary)
daydream - 1,000 000 000 (happy)
recurring dream - clock
(if u have read my previous post on types of dreams, u would know what this dream is. I use clock to represent this dream because the clock tickles everyday and the 3 needles repeat after the number 12 continuously without coming to an end)
lucid dream - origami paper
(in lucid dream, you can control your own dreams, just like a piece of paper, you can fold into anything you desire.

In my previous post, I proposed that 'a combination of more than 1 cube will create different visuals on screen.' Now that I am using the 4 objects to represent each dream, a combination of 2 objects means a combination of 2 dreams, which is weird.
So I decided to add 3 more objects for more interactions, and at the same time, it will achieves my 3 objectives.

Objectives:
- to show that dreams are connected with our reality. What we face in reality will affect the
content of our dreams.
- to explore dreams
- to have fun with dreams

flower - life
bulb - sunlight
bottle - water

In order for the flower to live and grow, sunlight and water is a necessity. These 3 objects represent life (which is our reality).
So, a combination of 1 dream and any of these 3 objects will create a different visual on screen.













"Dreams are metaphorical translations of waking expectations." - http://why-we-dream.com/thetheory.htm

Conclusion: It's all about metaphor-dreams is about symbol and symbol is metaphor. My purpose is to let the audience think, explore and have fun. Whichever combination of objects they choose will cause different visual(dreams) to appear on screen.

Planning (Gantt Chart)

FYP 1







FYP 2

Precedence Studies

Interactive Life























Video from http://www.plancton.com/relem/interlife.htm

I find the visual from this installation is quite interesting. Maybe I can do this kind of style
to represent the nightmare visual for my installation.

Recurring Dream Installation
























http://www.judithkindler.com/artists/collections/kindlerdreamsc.html

This is an art installation. The artist created a few same objects to reflect recurring dream (repeating dream).