Week 12 Research / Reflections
A question for our group this week in editing was how can we enhance our footage to be dreamlike and replicate a dream experience. Our thought process whilst editing was to showcase a series of fragmented shots to represent a dream rather than telling a full narrative and plot of events. An idea and question that gave me this thinking to edit towards was how “Why do people only remember dream episodes versus full narrative experiences?” (Strongman 2014). I found this relatable especially in recalling a dream and relying on the sensory of small visuals. With these small visuals Strongman states (2014), they are the ones we select as being the strongest out of the many our minds assume and have made in the dream state. This dream sequence in our video with a number of shots stitched together I then questions the viewer asking what they have watched, and then recalling these images similar to how we would recall visuals after we awake from a dream. Having these dream snapshots shown in fragments also act as representations of white dreams that are vague experiences of what people have seen or heard in their dream but are not able to extract finer details out of it. These types of dreams are described to be an experience of minimal consciousness and are “neither clear nor vivid, but reduced in quality” (Fazekas, Nemeth & Overgaard (2019). With this in mind our video can then also be concerned with and aim to represent this journey in this state of consciousness of travelling and skimming through these snapshots of dreams.
References
Luke, S 2014 “Conscious States of Dreaming” The Journal of mind and behavior, New York: The Institute of Mind and Behavior, Vol.35 (4), p.189-200, https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/conscious-states-dreaming/docview/1688913453/se-2
Fazekas. P, Nemeth.G, Overgaard.M (2019) “White dreams are made of colours: What studying contentless dreams can teach about the neural basis of dreaming and conscious experiences” Sleep medicine reviews, England: Elsevier Ltd, Vol.43, p.84-9, DOI: 10.1016/j.smrv.2018.10.005