Like a dating app, AI-powered website will match users according to their dreams as part of project by Hong Kong artist
- Hong Kong artist Doreen Chan set up HalfDream.org, where people share their recall of weird dreams, with the aim of matching those who have had similar visions
- The project was started to ‘to help people connect’, and illustrations of dreams and voice recordings form part of an exhibition at city’s Para Site art space
Have you ever woken up after a particularly vivid dream and freaked out over what you’ve just “seen”? Go to HalfDream.org and you’ll realise that other people have perfectly weird dreams too.
“I dreamed that I came to an apartment building. I went up the steps and when I got to the top, I saw my little brother lying blindfolded on a table and my older brother was going to stab him with a knife,” writes one person who shared her dream on the website.
Another dreamer called theirs “attack of the babies” and keeps it simple. “babies … flying … everywhere”, the entry reads.
The shared absurdity of our unconsciousness is the premise behind the “HalfDream” project, created in 2020 by Hong Kong-born artist Doreen Chan Wing-yan.
Its latest phase comes in the form of HalfDream.org, a dedicated website that works like a dating app but matches people based on what goes on inside their heads while they’re sleeping.