DreamLab

Blurb:

Dreams are extremely absurd and absurd, scientists have never looked at them squarely. However, dreams did help scientists. For example, when chemists discovered benzene molecules, they were inspired by dreams. There was an emperor in the Han Dynasty named Emperor Han Ming. He dreamed that a person came to his dream with a bow and arrow on his back. The minister analyzed that it was a Buddhist character, so Emperor Han Ming sent envoys to India to welcome the monks and built the first building in China, the White Horse Temple. The impact of dreams on mankind is still great.

The study of modern dreams initially entered the academic field of vision, thanks to a psychoanalyst, Freud’s “The Study of Dreams.” As a good material for studying the subconscious, the interest in dream research began to spread from the psychology world to the science world.

Modern brain science is very preliminary and superficial to dream research. Research shows that both humans and mammals dream. Everyone dreams every night. When dreaming, the eyes move quickly, which is called the eye movement sleep cycle. In rapid eye movement and research has shown that waking up the dreamer during the night dreaming period will cause emotional problems in the long term. It seems that dreaming has something to do with human processing emotions and emotions.

It is really not easy to explain the principles of dreams clearly. Because it involves the working principle of the brain and the science of mind. In the field of philosophy and religion, there are many statements about dreams. 

Based on all those backgrounds, my partner and I would like to build up a DreamLab to participate in the open call of MIMA’s fall exhibition season.

MindBoard:

The First Step: We have sit down and brainstormed our project, worked together and completed our MindBoard via Miro.

StoryBoard:

 

Second Step: After some research, dig deeper, data collections etc., we drew down our StoryBoard above via Storyboarder software. 

Here is the Story behind our Open-Call project:

It is said that in the seventh year of Yongping in the Eastern Han Dynasty, when Emperor Zhuang Liu of Han Ming stayed overnight, he dreamed of a golden figure with a bright head coming from the west. The next day, Emperor Han Ming told the minister of this dream. Doctor Fu Yi said: Emperor Han Ming sent an envoy to the Western Regions to pray for Buddhism. After the envoy left Luoyang, he met the Indian monks She Morten and Zhufalan in the Great Moon Kingdom, and sincerely asked the monks to go east to China to promote Buddhism. The two eminent monks came to Luoyang with a white horse carrying Buddhist scriptures. Emperor Ming of Han was very courteous to the two eminent monks and arranged for them to stay temporarily in the official government office Hongshe Temple and ordered to build a monastery outside Luoyang Xiyongmen. To commemorate the White Horse Tuo Sutra, the built temple was named “White Horse Temple”, and the White Horse Temple became the first symbol of Buddhism in China.

Third Step: After bunch of discussions, we’ve decided the device, tech tools and mood of our DreamLab project. We’ve made our Moodboards via Photoshop.

Device/Tech Tool:

Device: Discovery, Narrate and Amplification

As we all know, different people under different situations could have different dreams depending on different timelines. Based on this to well present our open call project, we would like to use different devices to present different kinds of dreams. The main device we’d like to use is discovery, which not only presents the dreams or information, but also collects, data driven, returns us and analyzes the big data. Discovery will help us find some inner world, what’s the relationship between our individual, internal, external, physical space and virtual world etc. We are gonna use some hi-tech devices and equipment to achieve this point. Such as brain scanner machines, Kinect, leapmotion, big data collections, databank, databases and data analyzer etc., which helps the audience to explore the world of dreams and build up the dream databank to achieve data driven the whole project. DreamLab will discover and present what is dream. Meanwhile, we would also use metaphor, juxtaposition, narrate and amplification to assist present the details and specifics. Dream is a mysterious metaphor，nobody knows what will happen during your dreaming. Therefore, in our project, we will make and show some abstract and mysterious pictures to present how powerful a dream is. Audience will feel the magic of dreams from the visual effects that DreamLab designs. Apart from that, dreams are diverse, it could be positive, could be negative, could be happiness, could be horrible. So we can say this juxtaposition of good things and bad things always run through our dream. Then in our gallery, you will see strong contrast in content in order to attract the audience. All above is what we plan our devices would be to share a great gallery. In the tooling side, we would use Ai training, adobe creative suite, writing, paint and film maker etc to juxtapose, narrate and represent people’s dreams. Through AR, VR devices, immersive and interactive games to achieve amplification and optimize audience experience.

Mood: Mysterious, Curious

In terms of mood, due to the diversity and variability of dreams, we intend to better present my project through a variety of mood methods, which includes mysterious, curious etc. Most dreams are mysterious, and there are certain reasons and reasons for dreaming, and many people have doubts about these. Not everyone’s dreams are colored, research points out that most people’s dreams are black and white. This is due to our brain’s unknown function. But connecting to our DreamLab project, this point will guide us to a little dark color of the project. On the other hand, why is there a feeling of deja vu in the dream? This is because dreams are created through the memory network, which can inspire a sense of familiarity. We recognize a scene without explicitly remembering or understanding why. This proves the mystery of dreams from the other side. Meanwhile, we are all curious about dreams due to its mystery. This leads to the second part of our project. DreamLab can dig deep to study and share knowledge of dreams to satisfy people’s curiosity. Then you will see some incredible scenes and pictures in our case which will attract the audience and make them believe DreamLab is the best gallery. All these introductions are to well represent our DreamLab project and make people can be completely immersed in the expo world of dreams.

Fourth Step: We’ve designed and settled our StypleFrame via Photoshop for our DreamLab.

StyleFrame:

In the beginning of a curious exhibition of dreams，you will understand  what the dream is and what the connection between dream and human. This is where your journey starts. 

Accessing next door, this will be an interactive room where Audience may see what you are thinking from the big screen on the wall through a device which can catch your mind wave and display on the screen if you wish to do so. Since this is just an initial interactive game, it is not to steal your privacy from your unconscious dream, so this is worth a try.

When you go deep, our exhibition also enters the climax. Now you go into a mysterious high-tech room where there are several Dreaming Cockpit. It requires you to sleep inside, real sleep. The machine will record your dreams and combine other elements to make a VR journey for you. You will travel in your dream world to search, think, even repent. Of course it will be a private and payment project. Everyone will stay in separately, closed and independent rooms.

Since you have experienced the interactive room in the 2nd part of this exhibition, our high-tech analysis machine have done some study based on your public mind wave. And then in this last room, you will see the analysis of your personality. This is a chance to know your own well.

Implementation

• Room Lighting Effect
• Relax Music
• Hypnosis
• Mind Wave
• Analysis
• Psychologists

Firstly, before we get dreams, our audiences should sleep and start dreaming. So we combine the traditional method “Hypnosis” with some sweet and relaxing music as well as a soft room light effect, you would gonna step into our dream machines, which can easily help people into dreaming. 

Then as we all know, modern science has proved that humans have a kind of brain waves that emit outwards. So such brain waves are the best medium for scientists to download dreams and thinking from a sleeping person. Of course, data of dreams will be recorded in the machine. Now we solve the key problem: how to get dreams.

Since we have the ability to get dreams, we have the ability to modify dreams. Downloaded dream is like various scenes of a movie. Then we just need to introduce some 3D software to edit the dream, like Maya, Unity, in order to make it more  like a reality world and well represent the dreams in your mind. This is the key process to make an AR/VR journey that you will enjoy after you wake up.

Finally, our psychologists will study and analyze your dream data through Psychological view. And will share with you some suggestions or treatment solutions about your psychological health.    

Slide with Topic, Device, Attribute, and Mood.

Thank you for watching! Made by Helen and Hongyi.