DREAM LANGUAGE IN COLOR THESIS RESEARCH
What is the purpose of dreams? The study and interpretation of the images and colors that populate our dreams can be a way to unlock our inner subconsciousness and be used to help understand how we function in our everyday lives. This ideology of recalling and sharing our dreams may help us understand our emotions and inner psyche.
This project, “Dream Language in Color” uses dreams collected in interviews to create animated visualizations, color analysis charts, and audio stories about how specific colors reflect the subconscious. Additionally, a dream sequence, presented as a re-enacted film, shows viewers how color dreams are viewed in the sleep realm. The intention of this project is to encourage dreamers to understand their own dream language.
2020 Thesis Exhibition Room Plan
This gallery was to support an overall experience for the guests. Coming into a personal space of dreamers and seeing their visions come to life. The IPads were to be mounted on the wall showing the voices of the participants and the colors that represented their dreams. The whiteboard was a space for individuals entering the room to write their own dream experiences on a color language dream card. Then, the bottom room planner was to showcase my own personal dream sequence projected on a full screen as the audience walks into this space.
DO YOU DREAM IN COLOR?
DREAMING IN BLUE - SARAH AGE 20’S
DREAMING IN YELLOW - ALYSSA AGE 20’S
DREAMING IN RED - APRIL AGE 50’S
BELOW CHART IS FOR THE DREAM SEQUENCE VIDEO SHOWN ABOVE…
I experimented by creating a mood board
for how I believed dreams would
be depicted in a physical space.
I researched and found these
beautiful dream-like images
from Pinterest and started to
pair them with color gradients
that reminded me of energy
auras. Who knew that these
colorful images would end up
becoming the foundation for my
thesis project.
As I put them together, I started
to see things more clearer, that
those colors we see when we
sleep are fragments pulled from
our dreams to help decipher an
emotional meaning to dreams.
Each image I found told a story
or had a feeling it projected.
Once those colors were
exerted from those dreams,
then the true analysis begins to
unfold through these beautiful
swatches of color.
