Symbolic Bad Dream

Category	Duration	Tool / Material
NLP	2022 @ New York University	Python; JavaScript(for showcasing on this page)

I've always had the habit of recording my dreams because I find recalling them helps me have a better memory. But I recognize it takes a lot of energy to do, and starting to recall a dream right after I wake up can easily cause me to fall asleep again and then get tardy. The earliest dream I can remember was around age 6, I dreamt that I could morph into any creatures.

Getting back to the point, from past records, I found my dreams are full of random symbols, it is in the same nature as a randomized poetry generator. It’s also mentioned by Hartman, Charles O. in Virtual Muse, “The Sinclair ZX-81” . So I decide to simulate such mechanism by extracting some symbols from my dream diary and letting the computer program randomly combine them like the dream does.

For this generator, the dream itself is a loop, one of the forms of my nightmares. And the rhetoric I choose is called Chiasmus with a structure basically symmetrical like a ring.

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