Dream Journal: Dream and Creativity
Wenchi Hsueh
It is a journal for dreamers that serves as an inspiration library to enhance the memory of dreams and foster
creativity. This journal is also a guide for dreamers. By incorporating elements of data visualization, the journal
offers a unique approach to understanding and visualizing dreams. Each page of the journal is carefully crafted to
facilitate the visualization of dream data, allowing dreamers to visualize their dreams in an interesting manner.
Dream Journal Cover Design
For design parts of the journal, the blank covers allow users to personalize their journals by coloring them, making each journal unique.
Dream Journal
Dream Journal Categories
To help dreamers better understand and visualize their dreams, by categorizing dream categories into “feelings," “actions,” and “moments.” In the “Feelings” category, each emotion is matched with a specific color, allowing users to represent the mood of their dreams visually. Similarly, in the “Actions” and “Moments” categories, users can choose from a variety of design patterns to represent significant events or experiences within their dreams.
Introductions and Guides
These pages help users understand how to use this journal and guide them through the data visualization process.
Dream Mood Pattern
This section provides users with a calendar layout to record their daily dreams' moods. Moreover, after filling the colors in this whole page over a year, this color wall can also be preserved as unique patterns in the inspiration library.
Color & Pattern Guides
This pages provide detailed information to show the "Feeling", "Action", and "Moment" of colors and patterns
Book Jacket Reference Sheet
It is a reference sheet on the back book jacket of the journal. By simply flipping over to the back cover, users can quickly consult the guide until they become acquainted with the system.
Dream Journal: Examples
By associating specific colors with distinct emotions, users can vividly capture the mood of their dreams. Additionally, patterns serve as visual cues for different dream elements. These colors and patterns not only use interesting ways to facilitate dream recollection but also serve as an inspiration library, sparking creativity and imaginative thinking.
Each blank page in the journal features tracing paper at the top, allowing users to overlay information and
illustrations.
Users can interact with this journal and personalize their dream visual, adding an engaging and memorable manner of
experience.