Recreating the experience of a dream ‘Cotton dreams’ an animation


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Creator/Artist: Poonam Madhav Athalye

Category: Communication Design

Document: P3 Project

Batch: 2005-2007

Source: India,   IDC IIT Bombay

Period:  1999-2008

Medium: Report pdf

Supervisor: Prof. Shilpa Ranade


Detailed Description

During a typical life span, a human spends a total of about six years dreaming, which is about 2 hours each night. It is unknown where in the brain dreams originate, if there is such a single location, or why dreams occur at all. “I had a horrible nightmare that there were sick kittens all around me, hungry and sick. One of them, a small black kitten, jumped up on my lap, and to my horror, split in half, and the top half jumped off my lap, leaving the bottom half. I screamed and woke up.” Dreams are expressed in the form of sensory metaphors. Some say that dreams are metaphorical translations of waking expectations. From the point of view of the dreaming state of mind, dreams are real events in real environments. Based on this notion, one can re-enter the landscape of a dream and flash back to the images, whether it is a memory from waking life or from dreaming. One enters a hypnagogic state; then, through the process of questioning, images are explored through the perspective of feelings and sensations manifested in the body, enabling new awareness to develop.