Towards Dream Cartography: Mapping Dream Space and Content
ISBN 978-85-88783-11-9
Authors
1Iosifescu Enescu, C.; 2Montangero, J.; 3Hurni, L.
1INSTITUTE OF CARTOGRAPHY AND GEOINFORMATION, ETH ZURICH Email: ciosifescu@ethz.ch
2DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA Email: jacques.montangero@orange.fr
3INSTITUTE OF CARTOGRAPHY AND GEOINFORMATION, ETH ZURICH Email: lhurni@ethz.ch
Abstract
The objective of Dream Cartography is to map the dream content, thus to develop new visualization methods and adapt existing ones as graphical means for an explorative dream analysis. We aim at modeling, documenting, reuniting and graphically depicting the dream space and other relevant psychological aspects of dreams in a meaningful but abstracted way. In this paper we describe the proposed workflow for mapping dreams, laying the focus on data acquisition, and illustrate it with some proof-of-concept visualization examples. The dream space is fundamentally different from the real space especially due to the fact that it is not possible to consciously visit the place of the dream again. One way to address this setting issue is through data acquisition and here we propose means for getting a more accurate description of the dream space and of other important dream elements.