The Box, the Mind and the Dream
This is an stop motion animation that expresses anxiety and counteracts it. It can also be described as an interpretation of the dream "being chased by something". Our brains are like a box containing emotions memories or traumas accumulated from childhood to adulthood. And based on psychology and neuroscience, the reason of having this dream is because of our anxiety or trauma.
our negativity is usually beyond our control, so it will come back again, but we can overcome it when we have emotional self-regulated.
Director: Maureen Weng
Cinematography: Maureen Weng
Puppet and Sets: Maureen Weng
Animator: Maureen Weng
Actress: Maureen Weng
Sound Design: Maureen Weng
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The idea for the concept came from a dream I have often had since I was very young: being chased by something and being forced to keep running. A very important point is that I never knew what was chasing me, from the beginning of the dream I only had the option to constantly run forward. It wasn't until I was a teenager that I started to gain some stamina and agility in my dreams that I didn't have in real life, so that I could run faster and further, and sometimes successfully escape from the thing.
Based on my experiences, I initially positioned this work as a personal subject. But after having some relevant talks with the people around me, I realised that this is a common dream. It seems to me that when a situation or matter is common or repeated in different individuals, then it becomes a phenomenon. So I decided to develop the work into an animation of dream interpretation.
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[Psychology]:
Sigmund Freud: "Dream s` related to our real life or a conciousness of our fear, desire and experience. " The first stage of his state is that they might refer to our wish. The evaluated derived conclusion nowadays becomes that it`s a threat simulation. The threat could be anything, but usually this threat refers to something we want to avoid in our minds, which occur the anxiety.
[Neuroscience]:
The emerging view in neuroscience is that dreams are related to memory consolidation happening in the brain during sleep. This may include reorganizing and recoding memories in relation to emotional drives as well as transferring memories between brain regions.
Sigmund Freud: "Dream s` related to our real life or a conciousness of our fear, desire and experience. " The first stage of his state is that they might refer to our wish. The evaluated derived conclusion nowadays becomes that it`s a threat simulation. The threat could be anything, but usually this threat refers to something we want to avoid in our minds, which occur the anxiety.
[Neuroscience]:
The emerging view in neuroscience is that dreams are related to memory consolidation happening in the brain during sleep. This may include reorganizing and recoding memories in relation to emotional drives as well as transferring memories between brain regions.
During the day, episodic memories (memories for events) are stored in the hippocampus, a region of the brain specialized for long-term memory that learns particularly quickly. At night, memories from this region appear to be transferred to the cerebral cortex, the region specialized for information processing, cognition, and knowledge.
‘The nonstop run' to 'The Penrose Stairs':
The Penrose Stairs is continuous loop of staircase proposed by Oscar Reutersvärd, and then created by Roger Penrose. It is a geometric paradox created through visual illusion.
