| ▲ | JKCalhoun 3 hours ago | |
Dreams I've had (since a late teenager) have often taken place in some kind of architecture with infinite rooms, hallways… I wrote a computer game where a paper airplane flies room to room… It occurred to me that I was not indirectly surfacing this "endlessly scrolling building" that has recurred so often in what I suppose are nightmares(?). At the same time, memory being what it is, I worry that the reverse is true—that the game I write inspired the nightmares (and that I now miss-remember when they began, misattribute them to my teenage years). There is at times a feeling of infinite possibility when I find myself in these places while dreaming. I always enjoy exploring new places and so a place with infinite rooms, hallways, floors is going to keep me busy. When I learned of Kowloon Walled City [1][2], that caught my attention. I've seen too descriptions of the underground portions of Hong Kong [3] that let you move from place to place without every stepping outside. The movie "Chungking Express" gives off that vibe [4]. The imaginary prisons of Giovanni Battista Piranesi [5]. [1] https://www.visualcapitalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/... [2] http://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-xI_c78etYDc/T61_qAwHWFI/AA... [3] https://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/hong-kong... | ||
| ▲ | bitwize 2 hours ago | parent [-] | |
For me it's cities—large, empty cities with little, if any, foot or vehicular traffic. Typically in the US or Australia and laid out accordingly, so not like Kowloon Walled City. But it's almost as if they're that way because my brain's "GPU" cannot render that many people or cars moving about. Sonetimes in these dreams I'm able to "teleport" to an interior location where there are people, and I'm fine. Of course, it may be influenced by the fact that I spent ~15 years in the Boston area, and while New York is the city that never sleeps, Boston can get hauntingly empty late at night, or even on Sunday afternoon when most everything's closed... For a great Kowloon-influenced atmospheric game, check out Stray. | ||
