It’s the end of a long and crazy day and you’re exhausted. You have a lot on your mind; experiences you had during the day, issues that have to be resolved, ideas that have to be generated. And last but not least, barely any free time to do any of these things. Why not utilise the time you dream? DreamCloud trains your aptitude to recall your dreams more easily, nurturing the luxury of sleeping. Dreams can be used in a variety of ways, for instance, to resolve current personal issues or as a potential source of creativity.
Some people use notebooks to document their dreams. However, many find it quite difficult to recall the dream the next morning and very uncomfortable to record during the night.
Dreamcloud monitors your sleep cycle during the night and wakes you up, ever so gently, right after you’ve had a dream. With your dream still fresh in mind, you can now record it, without having to switch on the lights, waking up the person next to you. The pillow itself is the interface and makes it easy to log dreams.
The next morning, your dream recording is already synced to the DreamCloud servers. Whenever you get a free minute during your day, on the way to work for example, you can use the specially designed app on your smart phone to listen to all the raw dreams you’ve captured. You now have the chance to complete your dreams, if you happen to remember additional details, categorise them more precisely, rate them, tag them with people and places that appeared in the dream and even add your own interpretations.
Built during a three week interdisciplinary course in collaboration with ETH Sensory-Motor Systems Lab.
blog: http://blogs.iad.zhdk.ch/luciddreams/dreamcloud
Concept, Design & Research: Alain Frapolli (IAD), Felicitas Dagostin (VSD), Jonas Haefele (VSD), Michael Huber (IAD)
Film- & Motiondesign, add. illustrations, technical pillow prototype and coding: Michael Huber
Illustrations, recording function & add. coding: Alain Frapolli
Mobile prototype (design & coding): Jonas Haefele
Pillow design, voiceacting: Felicitas Dagostin
Mentor: Karmen Franinovic
Alain Frapolli
BA Absolvent 2011
Michael Huber
BA Absolvent 2011. Arbeitet heute bei der Usability und Brand Experience Agentur «Usable Brands» in Zürich.
It’s the end of a long and crazy day and you’re exhausted. You have a lot on your mind; experiences you had during the day, issues that have to be resolved, ideas that have to be generated. And last but not least, barely any free time to do any of these things. Why not utilise the time you dream? DreamCloud trains your aptitude to recall your dreams more easily, nurturing the luxury of sleeping. Dreams can be used in a variety of ways, for instance, to resolve current personal issues or as a potential source of creativity.
Some people use notebooks to document their dreams. However, many find it quite difficult to recall the dream the next morning and very uncomfortable to record during the night.
Dreamcloud monitors your sleep cycle during the night and wakes you up, ever so gently, right after you’ve had a dream. With your dream still fresh in mind, you can now record it, without having to switch on the lights, waking up the person next to you. The pillow itself is the interface and makes it easy to log dreams.
The next morning, your dream recording is already synced to the DreamCloud servers. Whenever you get a free minute during your day, on the way to work for example, you can use the specially designed app on your smart phone to listen to all the raw dreams you’ve captured. You now have the chance to complete your dreams, if you happen to remember additional details, categorise them more precisely, rate them, tag them with people and places that appeared in the dream and even add your own interpretations.
Built during a three week interdisciplinary course in collaboration with ETH Sensory-Motor Systems Lab.
blog: http://blogs.iad.zhdk.ch/luciddreams/dreamcloud
Concept, Design & Research: Alain Frapolli (IAD), Felicitas Dagostin (VSD), Jonas Haefele (VSD), Michael Huber (IAD)
Film- & Motiondesign, add. illustrations, technical pillow prototype and coding: Michael Huber
Illustrations, recording function & add. coding: Alain Frapolli
Mobile prototype (design & coding): Jonas Haefele
Pillow design, voiceacting: Felicitas Dagostin
Mentor: Karmen Franinovic