Definition of images in a dream.

 To see indoor plants in your dream suggests that your growth is being hindered or slowed in some way. You are experiencing a lack of independence.
To see droopy, withered or dead plants in your dream suggest that you are at a standstill in your life. You are lacking initiative.

 To dream of emptiness suggests that there is something missing or lacking in your life. It symbolizes fruitless labor, an emotional void, or loneliness. There is nothing to show for all the effort that you have dedicated to a project or relationship.

 To see a building in your dream represents the self and the body. How high you are in the building indicates a rising level of understanding, awareness or success. If you are in the lower levels of the building, then it refers to more primal attitudes and/or sexuality

 To look up at the clear blue sky in your dream denotes hope, possibilities, creativity, peace and freedom of expression. As the saying goes "the sky's the limit." If the sky is cloudy and overcast, then it foretells of sadness and trouble.

 To see the Virgin Mary in your dream signifies selfless love, compassion, spiritual harmony and ideal motherhood. Alternatively, the Virgin Mary represents a repressed fear of sex and difficulties in personal relationships

 To see breasts in your dream symbolize primal nourishment and your need to be nursed and care for. The breasts represent motherhood, nurturance, and infantile dependency

 To see graffiti in your dream indicates that you have low self-worth. If the graffiti in your dream is a positive symbol, then it suggests that you see the good in everything and everyone.

 To see others kissing in your dream suggest that you are too involved in someone else's personal lives and relationship. You need to give them some space.

 To dream that your leg is broken, wounded or crippled signifies a lack of balance, autonomy, or independence in your life. You may be unable or unwilling to stand up for yourself. Perhaps you are lacking courage and refuse to make a stand.

 To see a black cat in your dream indicates that you are experiencing some fear in using your psychic abilities and believing in your intuition. You may erroneously associate the black cat with evil, destruction, and bad luck.

 To see snow in your dream signifies your inhibitions, unexpressed emotions and feelings of frigidity. You need to release and express these emotions and inhibitions. Alternatively, snow means that you are feeling indifferent, alone and neglected

 To see plants in your dream indicate fertility, spiritual development, potential, and growth. Alternatively, the appearance of plants in your dream reflect your caring and loving nature.

To see a light bulb in your dream suggests that you are ready to accept and/or face reality. It refers to your consciousness. The dream also symbolizes spiritual enlightenment, hope, new ideas and visions. You are approaching a situation from a new direction.

Final images

These are the final images for the project. I think they have worked out really well and accomplished all the points and images I was looking for. What would be interesting now is to go back to Sigmund Freud's Study of the Unconscious and study of dreams, to see what these images would stand for if they were dreamt, which they effectively were.

Plan

To summarise, these are the kind of images I want to recreate in my work. Keeping them in mind will help me visualise and the photographs in the street. I will look out for strange objects or happenings, colour coordination, whited out/ empty spaces, interesting light, religious artifacts, and body shapes.

Marc Auge - 'Non-Places'

In this book Auge explores the concept of a 'non-space' as a place where people wander in and out of constantly but never settle. Airport lounges, bus stops and supermarkets he says results in a profound alteration of awareness: something we perceive, but only in a partial and incoherent manner. Auge uses the concept of ‘supermodernity’ to describe the logic of a capitalist environment—a logic of excessive information and excessive space. Although interesting from an anthropological point of view it didn't directly inform my current work, however it did remind me of the feeling of mindlessly walking through these non-places and not completely percieving them. In insomnia these non-spaces extend to everywhere and everything, a non-awareness or non-mindfullness of your surroundings. I think by photographing empty spaces as in Martin Cregg's work, they can work as a metaphor for this experience.

Brassai

Brassai's photographs are very surrealist, he saw the beauty and strangeness behind every day things. This is the same thing I am looking for in my photographs in a more contemporary way. It seems he uses light to create compositions in weird ways, but also bodies without parts cut off from the image, as in the third image where the head is missing; this means the shape we are left with is reminiscent of a woman's body, but surreal at the same time. Taking pictures of parts of the body instead of the whole (especially missing the head and face)  has always interested me, I will look out for more of these shots.

Martin Cregg - Empty Spaces

Martin Cregg's Empty spaces is a collection of pictures of perfectly empty spaces, not just physically lacking objects but also missing any colour at all. I've noticed these around me before and been obsessed with the phenomenon, we live in a world surrounded by colour so when we find a small corner where there is none, it feels strange. A lot of his images look as though they're balck and white as well, but just the smallest hint of colour to offset the feeling, this creates a really surreal image. The images are also reminiscent of insomnia 'being neither awake nor asleep', in a sort of limbo or completely empty stark space. I will also look for this kind of image around me to illustrate this eery feeling.

Michael Nguie

Michel Nguie is one of my favourite photographers at the moment. He says he is driven by 'finding colour', and its very evident in his photographs; flawlessly seeing photographs that group vibrant colours together perfectly. He also photographs things that are surreal and interesting in a strange way. I like the third picture in the way that its busy, a lot of the time too much in a photograph can ruin it, not here, in a funeral shrine where death is celebrate there is an abundance of life. What is most attracting to me about his photographs is his use of flash, it singles out the subject of the photograph to maintain dominance. Also, as I learnt from Fight Club and The Machinist is the use of light to create that feeling of starkness, I think using a flash could really give that feeling to my photographs, enhancing the 'insomniac experience'.