Chantal Shen
Ruth Eisenberg
Seminar 2 – Visual Culture
IS1 Pack Assignment
I really enjoyed using the library’s online resources! I thought it was really easy finding different articles and books relevant to my topic, surprisingly! I also found it really easy to access the texts and downloading text for later use. Usually, it’s really hard to be able to download books or readings if you try to access it online and having the library resources makes things so much easier to archive the work you like. I think it’s an amazing resource The New School has especially since we’re also connected to the NYU libraries. I also really enjoy having online access to archival artwork The New School has, as it’s also a really nice addition to your research and finding art-related works that are relevant to your projects or essays.
Topic: I am studying whether all dreams are related to lived experience, and if not, how are they generated?
I am studying what dreams mean and how they relate to our past experiences. This is because I want to find out why we have the dreams we do, what their purpose is, and how they affected by our past. I also find it interesting how our brain might use this as a coping mechanism? But why do we have nightmares? How do these things affect us in our everyday life? Because I want to help readers understand how our mind works, and how it can relate the things in our life like our art practices, inspiration, and how we end up acting around other people when we dream about someone we know. Sometimes our dreams are super vivid and feel like real-life warped. I want to share a deeper understanding of what happens within ourselves, and I think it’s really interesting as it’s something we each experience separately and sometimes we don’t even remember the dreams. I think this topic is interesting to anyone that dreams, and it would be enlightening to see more into ourselves and why our brains come up with the things that it does. Our dreams are intricate, wonderful and sometimes scary, but I think that’s what makes them so important and interesting.
Resources:
- Givrad, Soudabeh. “Dream Theory and Science: A Review.” Psychoanalytic Inquiry 36, no. 3 (April 2016): 199–213. doi:10.1080/07351690.2016.1145967.
- https://sites.psu.edu/siowfa15/2015/09/08/how-do-dreams-affect-us/
- https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/the_influence_of_dreams
- https://neuro.hms.harvard.edu/harvard-mahoney-neuroscience-institute/brain-newsletter/and-brain/nightmares-and-brain
- https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2016/dream-states
