A short video collage of modified found footage and pre-recorded one, dealing with the loss of identity, portrayed through the POV of a person in a hypnagogic state. The project can also be seen as a study on the possible dangers of augmenting reality, and of becoming increasingly entangled into the virtual, a transgression of a singular self into multiple virtual entities, without a fixed core and without embodiment.

Hypnagogia is the experience of the transitional states to and from sleep.

This video collage is intended for a video installation an not to be seen through the conventional way of a laptop screen. It is in an interplay that attempts to mimic a hypothetical sleep onset of a person, i.e. the transition from wakefulness into sleep. All of the frames have been specifically made into animated gifs and then recombined back into a video in order to induce a repetitive, monotone effect. It is also a cautionary tale of the advent of neuroprosthetics and what might it be if in the future we are to be able to experience such 'designed' scenarios as a form of neuro-entartainment. The video attempts to stay true to the hypnagogic imagery (experience) by using the gaze or the eye of the beholder (or protagonist) as a starting point of a journey through the visual artifacts of the day gone and loosely constructed narrative structure that effortlessly emerge from the shift in conscious perception. The sound used is an amplified 6 Hz binaural beat also known as the theta wave rhythm (an oscillatory pattern in EEG signals recorded either from inside the brain or from electrodes glued to the scalp).
This video is part of a bigger personal study that I am currently pursuing, that deal with this threshold mental phenomena and includes lucid dreaming, hallucinations, and sleep paralysis.

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NB. The cover image is modified and animated by me but the original photo is courtesy of Scientific American Magazine) Read Less