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Mathew Borrett's hypnagogic cities

Rob Beschizza at 8:06 pm Mon, Oct 8, 2012

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  • Antinous / Moderator

    What makes you so sure that they’re not hypnopompic?

    • http://boingboing.net/ Rob Beschizza

      That’s just what he called it, man!

      • Antinous / Moderator

        I noticed that you corrected his spelling, though.

      • Guest

        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopomp ??

    • theophrastvs

      …or a little further along in wikipedia:  presomnal, anthypnic sensations, oneirogogic images, phantasmata, the borderland of sleep, praedormitium borderland state, half-dream state, pre-dream condition, sleep onset dreams, dreamlets, wakefulness-sleep transition (WST).

      but i calls it: Utapau City (cuz i’m a nerd)

  • erratic

    so good, it makes me just want to never try to make art ever again.

  • noahmckinnon

    Eerie. I’ve had dream settings that look like that.

  • Over the River

    For one reason or another they remind me of the recent xkcd comic Click and Drag

  • singingdragon

    I kind of want to build that in Minecraft now.

  • http://www.matthewpetty.com/ Matthew Petty

    Is this a map of the land of Fairlight? http://www.crashonline.org.uk/22/fairlght.htm

  • Susan Carley Oliver

    Not on Art.sy yet . . .