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Welcome to Sleep Exhibit

Sleep exhibit is here to share a sample of ways people communicate their dreams while awake: their unconscious ideas during conscious hours. This exhibit is a collection of thought seeds deeply rooted in the unconscious mind that have blossomed into the conscious mind and have developed into acts of literature, science, and art. 

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Caribbean Literary Context

This quote collection is sourced from Caribbean authors, representing a sample of the Caribbean culture’s perspective of dreams and sleep. Caribbean authors frequently acknowledge dreams and visions in their novels while creatively exploring the blurred boundaries between daytime and dreamtime. After all, storytime is the classic segue to sleep. This literature composes the content of the Modern and Contemporary Literature course instructed by Rebecca Schneider at University of Colorado Boulder, the inspiration for this project.

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Throughout Kei Miller’s A Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion, the cartographer and the rastaman argue over the validity of the cartographer’s attempt to capture a moment of Jamaica’s shifting landscape. The rastaman accuses the foreign cartographer that he cannot dream up an honest map of Jamaica; his lines will be too smooth for the jagged jungle the rastaman knows the island to be. 

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Sleep Studies

This collection of published articles and videos represents a sample of scholarly perspectives contemplating sleep. Most of this research is created by people educated in the United States who apply scientific theories and the universal scientific method to explore the topic of sleep and dreams.

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Visualizing Dreams

This collection of paintings represents a sample of imaginative, spatially aware “maps” of places that are not quite places. These paintings are attempt to blur the boundaries between the conscious and unconscious.

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The language and the 'people' of the unconscious are symbols, and the means of communication dreams... in Jung's view the unconscious is the great guide, friend, and adviser of the conscious, this book is related in the most direct terms to the study of human beings and their spiritual problems," (Freeman, 1964).  This quote and the research below carry similiar concepts. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC534695/

John Freeman p.12 Man and His Symbols

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Tom Uttech “Nanagatawendamowin” 

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Tom Uttech - “Nin Inotawa”

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Tom Uttech, Enassamishhinjijweian, 2009

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“ inspired by wide expanses of unspoiled wilderness in his native Wisconsin and neighboring Quetico Provincial Park in Ontario, Canada. Uttech's paintings, which take their names from various Ojibwe words and phrases, are fantastic imaginings, often populated with hosts of birds and other animals that traverse the landscape in a flurry of natural diversity” (http://www.alexandregallery.com/tom-uttech/)

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In the meantime(of a Trinidadian community confused by a common sharing of dreams with strange spirits) on their own initiative, people were consulting obeah-men and obeah-women and religious people who knew how to handle spirits, and in many homes we began to smell to get the smell of incense burning, and on trees blue bottles and red tied to the branches of trees to repel the spirits

Earl Lovelace Is Just a Movie (p. 333)

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...was a bad bad dream // & the dream was like a snarl of broken copper wire zig zagg / ing its electric flashes up the hill & splitt. ing spark & flow...

Kamau Brathwaite “Middle Passages: Stone” (p. 60)

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1. Brian El “Dreamscape”

2. Robin Olaussen

These represent spatially aware maps of places that are not quite places, in light of Kei Miller’s quoted question.

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'Acting on the assumption that the spirits removed by Dorlene from the sick had taken up residence in the town, some in our dreams and others in the heads of children, the Ministry of Health ordered that small children and pregnant mothers be moved to other districts so that when the spirits were released they would not find the souls of the innocent to enter,' (Lovelace 332). 'This quote magnifies the Caribbean culture's deep respect for dreams. If a similar situation in America were to occur, it is very likely that the media would divert the concept of spirits to another explanation,' (Akers).

Earl Lovelace Is Just a Movie (p. 332)

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The rest of the day I was puzzled over the dreams. That afternoon, I went over to Sonnyboy's place. I found his shop packed with people telling each other their dreams. Nobody could give a satisfactory interpretation of what this meant.

Earl Lovelace Is Just a Movie (p. 332)

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“Be careful of the thought seeds you plant in the garden of your mind, for seeds grow after their kind,” (Cook; Clinton).

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Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.

Farrah Gray, American Businessman

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Constantly Curious

What happens to your body and brain if you skip too much sleep?