While driving on 101 south-bound at 2021-09-05 17:26:02 and listening to Shostakovich piano concerto 2 in the radio, I imagined being engulfed by sticky black liquid, and reproduced the visual effect afterwards via Adobe Ae.
September 17, 2021
August 30, 2021
Aunts asking me to check email dream
I have 4 aunts from my mother’s side, and they were telling me to check my emails in my dream earlier this morning.
August 21, 2021
Garbage escape dream
It felt very fun and liberating to hide inside a recycle bin and ride away with a garbage truck (at least in that dream).
August 20, 2021
IIII break
This dream is probably a reflection of my use of eye-protection programs (e.g., eyes guard).
July 19, 2021
The feeling of predestination
[I thought about this earlier this morning during a dream, which I happened to wake up and managed to memorize.]
Do you ever have the feeling of predestination, of meeting someone, being in some place, or going through some events?
I wonder if that is some kind of mental post-processing that tries to fit a narrative to a past event.
July 9, 2021
Dream recording
After a semi wake-up earlier this morning I recalled a lot of interesting thoughts going on during my dream, including two research ideas (one shared with my collaborator right before writing this and another needing more thinking), a visual image of an abstract cabinet drawer, and a scene of my mother at a bus stop seeing me off to a military service.
At that moment, I pondered whether I should write these down with potential sleep disruption or continue lying down with potential risk of forgetting everything later.
Apparently this pondering made enough imprint in my memory so that, even after opting for the latter, I could still recall everything.
PS:
Most of my ideas came from my day/night dreams, apparently during relaxed rational inhibition.
Thus I always try to keep healthy and consider stress a risk factor for both my life and work.
May 3, 2021
Spiral tower dream
One main reason I wanted to practice drawing is to show you my (often vivid and unusual) dreams.
January 16, 2021
January 14 2021 3:15 am dream
I tend to have very vivid dreams (David Lynch plots combined with George Lucas visuals), at least for these that I woke up to remember, which I tried to depict to the extent possible within my visual memory and artistic skill without much sleep disruption.
January 14, 2021
When technology becomes like science
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.