Faculty of Design

Illustration

Guanzhong Chen

final animation

The shots of three dreams are switched, and the character opens his eyes and enters one dream, from the story of adulthood to the story of middle school in the second dream and then to the story of childhood in the third dream.

“My story was inspired by Inception and Paprika. A story about a dream within a dream. I wanted to convey that the character's nightmares were connected to his reality and the pain and scars of his past. The character opens his eyes on the street, in a dream where his vicious boss bullies him. In the convenience store where he works, the items displayed in the window are clocks and dolls.Because it is a dream, the clock runs counterclockwise. The doll is a picture of his boss bullying him. The boss came out of the poster and strangled his neck.He choked and closed his eyes. When he opened his eyes, it was his second dream. The second dream was about being abused by his mother in middle school. The scar on his hand was caused by his mother, who appeared in front of him in the second dream. His mother took out a long stick and his scar began to bleed. He closed his eyes in fear and came to the third dream. In the third dream, he saw a photo of his family in the hallway of his childhood home. The family is very close in the photo. Then a young version of him walked out and took out a toy gun to kill his adult self. (Reason: He was happy as a child, but in middle school and adulthood he was in extreme pain. He instinctively wanted to be free). He woke up from his third dream. He woke up in his bedroom, covering his face and crying, and his cries gradually turned into the sounds of the street. He returned to the streets again.”