VISION PROPOSAL:
Our project is dedicated to the space around dreams and our ability to process our emotions, moods and stress in our sleep. We want to explore using objects in the bedroom as transactive memory and emotional deposits. Essentially, our goal is to enable users to be reflective of and to clear their heads of their emotions and ideas before they sleep, so that they do not lay in bed brooding. Two of our prototypes are intended to be interacted with as the user reflects and prepares for bed; they encourage the user to input their mood and stress levels through tactile forms of interaction. The user is awoken in the morning by the third device, which compiles data from the user’s input the night before and represents it in a beautiful and meaningful way. The user notices the impact that their mental state has on their sleep quality and how they feel in the morning.