Posts Tagged → dreams

Mallworld

I just fell into the Mallworld rabbit hole. Apparently thousands of people on Reddit, TikTok and other platforms are sharing their dream experiences and they claim to have visited the same place. Some are event drawing detailed maps of it. This place is Mallword and it is a sort of gigantic liminal space with shops, airports, playgrounds, hotels and other buildings. But the heart of the world is – of course – the oniric version of your typical American mall, where people get lost and disoriented. Mallworld is a sort of narrative container that merges vaporwave, liminal spaces, the backrooms, dreamcore and This Man all together.
“Ever dreamed of this place?”

Dream Recorder

The Dream Recorder AI is a device designed to transform fragmented dream recollections into replayable visual sequences: “Wake up, say your dream out loud, and watch it come to life as an ultra-low definition dreamscape“.

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Dream players

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“Playing video games before bedtime may give people an unusual level of awareness and control in their dreams, LiveScience has learned.[…] Dreams and video games both represent alternate realities, according to Jayne Gackenbach, a psychologist at Grant MacEwan University in Canada. But she pointed out that dreams arise biologically from the human mind, while video games are technologically driven by computers and gaming consoles.
“If you’re spending hours a day in a virtual reality, if nothing else it’s practice,” said Jayne Gackenbach, a psychologist at Grant MacEwan University in Canada. “Gamers are used to controlling their game environments, so that can translate into dreams.”

Video Gamers Can Control Dreams, Study Suggests

Capolinea

E’ veramente ora che me ne vada in vacanza. Stanotte ho sognato che ero al cinema e mentre vedevo un film con i sottotitoli mi sfuggiva completamente il senso di un dialogo. Beh, sapete cosa ho fatto? Ho tirato fuori un telecomando e ho mandato indietro la sequenza. Ma non spingendo REW, CLICCANDO sul pulsante BACK del browser…