Lucid Dream — Yufei Ma 马羽非

Lucid Dream / 清醒梦 (2019)

What is dream? Dream is a reflection of a combination of people’s inner world and their experiences. Originating from the reality and being sort of surreal, dream presents a fancy sense of indulgence. This video, with dream and reality interlaced in it, bears the dreamer’s self-reflection which includes confusion in self-identity, half mature understanding of gender relations, state of mind in the face of overwhelming pressure. The line between reality and dream is not made clear to audience in this video. Such experiencehappening in a both illusory and real world is a so-called lucid dream.

什么是梦？梦是一种结合了人们内心深处想法及现实所经历事情的一种映射，它本身来源于现实又有些超脱现实，往往给人一种似真似假的沉浸感。这个影像通过梦境和现实交叠的方式，表达我对自我的一些思索，其中包含了对自我认知的困惑、对两性关系的懵懂认识、面对巨大压力时的心理状态等。影像中我并没有明确的告知观众，什么时候是现实，什么时候在梦中，这种真实与虚幻揉杂的体验，我称之为清醒梦。