The dream was about a performance space--a kind of amusement park theater. I made some silent joke to myself later that the dream was about an "amazement park." The theater was set on three levels. I was not aware of the large, open, space (loft like) about the size of a football field till near the end of the dream. I entered the building. I was not aware of anyone else. It was a large, open, dark space. As you enter (no conscious sense of the outside of the building), you are alone. In the dark you become aware of the largeness of the space. It does have columns and supports, but the floors seem to be transparent.

"Amazement Park", long as a football field, 3 stories high, with oval track for ride through projected images.

Walking through the space, you see projected images, movies and stills everywhere. You can stop and control and change the images by will. The projection systems are of a kind of "cubistic" sculptural aspect. They are everywhere on the floors, invisible screens in space in front and beside you. You walk through, growing slowly aware of the multi-levels above you.

You enter a kind of wire device that suspends you, and you are flown through a symmekical tunnel of images at great speed. The images like snow flakes and other symmetrical images fly past you. You are aware that it is a circular track you are flying in.

A slow and dawning interpretation of the images is coming through the multiple levels and flow of images; repetitions of real world and abstract images make a pattern of recognition possible. All of the images and apparent events are a metaphor of experience that are saying the same thing over and over. I realized it was telling a non-narrative story about "sharing." The whole purpose of this huge experience machine/theater is to isolate you as an individual and reinforce by way of visual metaphors that the whole life experience is about sharing. The multi-levels of the space describe the relationships of the universe and how it takes so long to interpret the inter-relationships of all the details of life in the universe.

Upon awakening, I was very refreshed and excited. Very vividly, I had seen a wonderful way to help make a model of the universe-with exquisite details and also with the sweep of scale of the universe. Visual metaphors were the key to understanding. I wanted to build the "amazement park". I realized that my [art installations] "moviedome" and "membrain theater" were steps along the way.

SOURCE: Dreamworks: an Interdisciplinary Quarterly (v.2, no.1, spring 1981, p.12)

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