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I found that there is a huge gap between psychologists and ordinary dreamers. If a dreamer was looking for a simple response/answer, mostly for the comfort, he will find it really frustrated that the information is either too complex to contemplate, for example, those books of dream interpretation in the library, or too simple/inconvincible to apply to his dream, like the funny tutorial video clips on Youtube. Worst of all, either searching for one side of information or another, the process is time-consuming and exhausting since there is simply too much information too filter. Why can’t the process of search answers as simple as what we will do when we want a coke or our daily groceries? Why can’t it be convenient and friendly? Another problem is that, despite all the researches show that dreams are pictorial; none of the accessible interpretation is graphic-based. Maybe that’s why those silly video clips on Youtube are popular: other forms of helping are so text-heavy and not friendl...

Nightmare Installation project Jason Intention/Motivation Last year I had experienced a long period of time that having dreams and nightmares almost every night. I started to wonder that how do people who suffer from their dreams cope with their feelings, and what kind of information is useful for them. I did a little research on the internet and found out that dreaming is such a lonely activity, especially for teenagers and adults who are over the age of telling nightmares to their parents and can’t find a shrink to talk to. They can’t find a proper outlet for dealing with their dreams since the content of their dreams/nightmare is such a private thing. It is embarrassed for an adult to tell their friends that he/she is bothered by his/her own nightmares simply because his/her age might seems to be too old for that. Even if they try, the responses from their friends are rarely helpful since it’s more than often that there is no one having the same experience/proble...

01 Dream Matcher A machine that can help people not only sharing their dream experience to others but also translating their words into graphic elements and matching with other people's dream. The machine has two sides of input device which locate in the opposite direction and allow two users sit facing each other and sharing one double-side screen. If a group of user, which means a set of two people, type in their stories, the machine will analyze the essay and automatically translate certain keywords into graphic elements and show on the screen which will show on both sides. After they are done with typing, the machine will calculate how many same graphic elements this two people have in common and generate an analysis description (either diagram/light or just text) about their relationship and some silly suggestions. reference 02 Nightmare La-Mien There are researches showed that some particular images or plots in our nightmare actually reflect some possible illnesses that our b...

Actually I don't really know what should I do, so I found some references essay, books and researches that might validate my upcoming project. 01 The meaning of dream .....By Jonathan Winson the article is about they found that dreams are actually meaningful by studying the structure of brain. 02 The quest to find consciousness.....By Gerhard Roth By studying the brain's physical processes, scientists are seeking clues about how the subjective inner life of the mind arises 03 Emotion, Memory and the Brain ....by Joseph E. LeDoux This one is also to find the link between emotions and memory, and how our brains work; ie: How does fear generate. 04 How to decode your dream This short essay gave some examples to explain some common plot of our dreams 05 Love Me, Love My Scent The article tells that how women's behavior been influence by their subconscious while choosing their another half 06 Dream Maker Introduces the Dream Workshop, a gadget that replays the recorded drea...

My question: How do people deal with their subconsciouses, emotional feelings and dreams when not seeing their shrinks? Can people cure/comfort themselves by simply interact with other devices or people? If can, what kind of roles can technology play in the interactions? What kind of information can make people feel more comfortable about the mysterious power within their own brains? How to share some irrational feelings or thoughts with others without feeling embarrassed or silly? What form of interaction is more desirable for those who are in need? How to notice the emotions of others in our daily surroundings? How to make people start the triangulation about their personal feelings or subconsciouses? How to visualize such a conceptual subject?

Summarized from: Time Facebook: More Popular Than Porn By Bill Tancer According to Bill, he claimed that Facebook actually changed the on-line behavior of young generation. For web users whose age are between 18-24, social network is on the top of the most clicked-on ranking category. By comparing the increasing visit rate of social network and the dropping visit rate of porn sites, he concluded that there is an obvious negative correlation between the visiting rate of porn sites and social-networking sites, which means that the young people are too busy chatting with their friends on facebook to visit porn sites. I think if the data and the comparing chart were accurate, this observation could be really interesting. Because it shows the importance of social-needs of young generation: it’s even more attractive than sex! Actually porn is not even on the second place, search engines is. The third one is web-based e-mail, porn sites is the fourth on the ranking list. S...

Hooray~ we had our final presentation done~ for those who might be interested, please download pdf file from this link Please notice that some pages contained movie files in the original version, but we had to take it off under the constrain of pdf format. Enjoy~