I was having a dream in which one day our technology becomes so complex that we lose track of how things work and have to approach them like how we study nature in science.
January 14, 2021
December 10, 2020
Mondrian cake dream
Mondrian-themed cake,
in an early morning dream,
cut but not eaten.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CIpdevoHpda/
September 27, 2020
Feetcopter dream
I had this dream half a year ago on on March 27 2020.
Upside down helicopter man fly over a city.
Rotor stopped and dropped to the ground, captured by a GoPro camera.
Rescue workers brought a big net rushing towards the camera view, which I replaced by an ambulance view for easier drawing.
September 26, 2020
A day of several drawings
I remembered 3 weird dreams earlier at around 4:30 am and 6:00 am this morning, and decided to draw them out.
Before that, during an eye break, I spotted a rooftop worker.
This is the first dream, about an eel tank.
This painting is inspired by the name of a prior intern who is still collaborating with me.
March 8, 2020
Mongolia trip dream
I was flying to Mongolia (world map with fly route and Mongolia border).
Upon arrival at the airport, I looked for gate 20 for bus exit (looking at the terminal map).
Somehow, I went to south gate 8 for Eva lounge filled with hello Kitty stuff (casino like setup).
I went back to terminal, trying to print my photo from a computer as required to board the bus, and found out it is 11:35 am so missed the hourly bus by 5 minutes (computer terminal on the right, terminal window on the left with the road and bus stop visible).
I then woke up at 5:27 am (March 5 2020).
December 9, 2018
Time perception
During my dream earlier this morning, someone (God?) was telling me what time really is. It is neither a one-dimensional curve nor a two dimensional-ribbon. But the dream did not continue to reveal the rest of the answer.
October 29, 2018
2:46 am dream
I woke up at 2:46 am to record this dream, from which I plan to draw later before my visual memory fades.
We were attending an eye-brow party but somehow waiting at two adjacent bus stops.
One coming to my stop at 8:10 pm. The next one is 5:10 am the next day, so I hopped on.
You were still sitting at your bus stop bench.
I did not know which station to take off, so I loudly asked you, through the bus window.
You did not respond, so I yelled why you did not answer me.
The person lifted her face and turned to another person who replied that I did not ask a question.
April 24, 2018
Early morning dream
I was taking an exam. I thought the duration is 3 hours, so I decided to finish a paper review first. The review took me about 80 minutes, but then the examiner informed me that the exam is actually 90 minutes. I tried to finish the exam in 10 minutes only to find out that the paper is made of a wet towel so I could not write anything.
October 7, 2017
Dream catcher
Waking up in the middle of the night, sometimes I can remember ideas from my dreams.
July 16, 2017
Dream this morning about Hong Kong
I slept inside a standing shower room, with my body balanced by my backs and legs against the plastic walls.
Afterwards I went to a laundry shop, which charged me 10761 HKD for 4 pieces of cloth. (It usually costs me about 30 to 50 HKU for a weeks’ worth of laundry.)
June 19, 2015
March 25, 2015
Pedro turning into a werewolf
This is yet another vivid dream I had earlier this morning.
I was waiting in line for I3D electronic theater with Pedro, chatting with other folks happily.
All of a sudden, he bent over the floor and started to vomit.
His bones deformed, with nails were protruding out of his fingers.
One of the two bear-like eastern European guys standing around us bit off Pedro’s right index finger tip, and that settled him down.
The eastern European guy told me that my bite would not help, implying I am a vampire.
November 19, 2011
Nightmare
The following scenario happened in one of my dreams early this morning.
During the committee meeting of one major graphics conference, a paper of mine got discussed. So I need to wait outside the room. I noticed that a lot of other people also walked out, and I wondered what the heck that was about. Eventually, the paper chair also came out and announced that nobody can review my paper because every committee member was in conflict.
A very senior guy came over and said: I told you not to make too many friends!
In the end, the paper was marked as *not accepted* (a new category beyond rejected, accepted, and togged) due to *lack of committee members for reviewing*. My co-authors told me they hate me and accused me of being an academic polygamist.
Well, clearly, being a dream, this is not entirely logical, as if there were no committee members who could review a paper it would have been discovered during the paper sorting process, not the meeting itself.
But still, an interesting beginning for a day.
July 10, 2009
Dream tapping
Waking up early in the wee hours is usually not a good thing, as it could cause fatigue and all other problems.
However, one good side effect for waking up early in that it allows us to tap into our dreams. It is known that brains do not stop activities during our sleeps, but we usually do not remember what have happened.
I have found that sleep interruptions, especially these happen in the early mornings, help me recall my dreams. I do not know about other people, but my brain tends to produce a lot of strange and interesting stuff (e.g. color movies) during my sleep. And judging by the frequency I came up with ideas after waking up, I know in addition to playing weird my brain also did some serious work.
The most interesting thing I have observed is that most my dream thoughts are less rational than my day thoughts, and many ideas that appear to be plausible during my dreams become apparently ridiculous after I wake up. But sometimes I got really useful ideas. For example, some of my SIGGRAPH paper ideas, as well as the previous two posts (I woke up at 3 am this morning), are produced during my sleep.
Maybe I should intentionally disrupt my sleep when I am short on research ideas.