21. Will Dowd
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Join me for an interview with Will Dowd — writer and artist. Will is the creator of Dreamfall, an experiment in hypnagogic dreaming, designed to explore the boundaries of poetry, dreams, and the human imagination. Listen as we discuss how he planted dream seeds and captured where his dreams took him. I hope you learn as much as I did about that liminal space before we fall asleep as a way to tap into our creative minds.
“I saw an unique opportunity with a device made to increase human creativity from MIT Media Lab — to capture dreams as we're going through the liminal space from waking to falling asleep.”
— Will Dowd
According to the Argentinian poet Jorge Luis Borges, “Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.” Using Dormio, a targeted dream inception device developed at the MIT Media Lab, Dowd will draw from the Harvard Woodberry Poetry Room’s collection of literary recordings for audio cues to direct his dreams.
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Book referenced during the podcast: Trickster Makes the World by Lewis Hyde
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