Day 15

Allow your dreams to do all the work…

Wednesday’s class almost put me to sleep. We watched a documentary on dreams. The class and I were pretty certain that Jimmy had not planned on showing us a video during class for that day. Especially since he gave us the option to choose between a dream documentary, something about Mayan Culture, and another one I can’t remember. I should know better by now than to sit and wonder what the agenda for the class had to do with becoming a graphic designer.

We watched What Are Dreams? A documentary by Nova on the stuff of dreams, and measuring neurological brain waves. I was expecting a documentary on the interpretation of dreams and not about sleeping patterns and brain activity. Overall it was an interesting video to watch, it explained that our brains are more active while we sleep compared to when we are awake. In one of the studies conducted in the film in which the scientist watched peoples sleeping patterns by attaching wires all over their heads and bodies they noticed that some people moved, acting out what they were experiencing in their dreams. Something that most of us call sleep-walking, it seems that while they slept their bodies did not pass these neurons that paralyzed their bodies allowing them to move.

Just when I thought Jimmy was going soft on us, letting us watch a movie during class, he gives us the brief for the final. We need to make a five-minute video and post on youtube. In this video we need to discuss what graphic design is, what it means to be a graphic designer, why I’m studying graphic design, what creativity is, how we become inspired, in other words all the things we have thought of and discussed in class. In true Jimmy fashion he was able to connect the movie to the class, he told us that before going to bed plant the idea of the film in your mind and sleep on it! Seriously? That wasn’t very helpful, I’m not one to control my dreams. But lets see if it comes to me in my sleep.