Year:

2021

This project aims to show the importance of dreams for our wellbeing by exploring various interactive and immersive media challenging the boundaries of sequential storytelling. In the current context of social media and the Algorithm age, our individuality is increasingly at risk as we are dissociating from the unconscious. Dreams can help us learn more about ourselves, taking Carl G Jung's individuation process as an example.

The story of Rei Carter’s individuation process is told through her instagram profile and is accompanied by an interactive 360 panorama VR experience allowing the audience to plunge into Rei’s subconscious dream worlds and travel through the Forgotten Universe, a realm of collective dream worlds populated by surreal entities and archetypes inspired by Jung’s collective unconscious and indigenous dream theories on dream realms.

The story is set in a parallel universe called Earth-333, where a conforming society uses a dreaming device called i.R.E.M. to enter the lucid dreaming state as entertainment during sleep. This device allows people to create their fantasy worlds, but often artificial and superficial instead of exploring their true inner worlds. One day, Rei Carter's device breaks and opens the access to the Forgotten Universe. Along her journey she rediscovers her true self, but the journey is full of challenges and emotional turmoil as she, for the first time, confronts these unknown sides of her psyche which makes her question her whole "masked" identity.

The Forgotten Universe 360 experience (VR compatible) LINK:
https://tour.panoee.net/forgotten-universe