05/03/18 - Participant 1 had a lucid dream about revisiting their childhood room, looking through a toy box, loads of toys everywhere.
04/05/19 - A bedroom in my (the photographer) family home with my mothers old childhood toys displayed in the background
05/03/18 - Participant 2 had a lucid dream about being In an empty plane, stationary, on an air field. Standing in the aisle of the plane.
06/01/19- Standing in the aisle of an empty stationary plane.
Photographers note - Shortly after the lucid dreaming study, an air museum local to me (the photographer) hosted a photography event. I took advantage of this opportunity to create a photograph to represent this participants lucid dream.
06/03/18 - Participant 3 had a lucid dream about a anti gun protest
24/03/18 - March for our lives anti gun protest, outside the U.S embassy in London.
Photographers note - This protest happened almost immediately after the lucid dreaming study, so I (the photographer) took advantage of this opportunity to create an image to represent this participants lucid dream.
06/03/18 - Participant 4 had a lucid dream about walking down a corridor, clinical looking. Fluorescent lights on the ceiling. Like a hospital corridor.
22/06/18 - Walking down a hospital corridor.
Photographers note - After the lucid dreaming study, I worked on a marketing project for the NHS. The project was pro bono and I used the opportunity to take a photograph to represent this participants lucid dream.
06/03/18 - Participant 5 had a lucid dream about walking down a beach with the sea on the left.
Date n/a - Walking down a beach with the sea on the left.
Photographers note - This photograph is of a beach close to my (the photographer) families home. It is quite possibly my favourite beach to visit and one of great importance to me.
06/03/18 - Participant 6 had a lucid dream about walking around Tescos with a trolly filled with chocolate biscuits.
15/09/18 - Buying lots of chocolate biscuits in a shop.
Photographers note - To create this photograph to represent this participants lucid dream, I (the photographer) had to achieve permission from a local food store to let me set up the shot and then along with my best friend, we were able to stage the scenario of the participants lucid dream as much as possible to create this image.
07/03/18 - Participant 7 had a lucid dream about being at a family meal. Sitting around a table, the family are grieving a loss in the family. Lights start flickering, participant leaves the table to turn the lights on and off and notices that the light switch isn’t working. This causes the participant to become lucid.
15/05/19 - Family who have experienced a loss, posing for the photograph.
Photographers note - I (the photographer) called on the help of a dear friend and her family to pose for this photograph. My friend and I have always spoken about lucid dreaming and it's surrounding topics at great length, so I thought of her and her family making suitable models to help re-create this participants lucid dream.
08/03/18 - Participant 8 had a lucid dream about looking at a spiral, swirly visual distortion. Flexes of colours bleeding in through the sides.
Date n/a - Photograph of light being bent by a magnetic field, superimposed over a photograph of a silver elevator door.
Photographers note - I (the photographer), wanted the 'swirly visual' aspect to this photograph to have some realistic connection to reality, so I settled on the idea of creating the swirly visual by bending light with a magnet and superimposing it onto a photograph of a silver, elevator door. Magnetic fields are all around us, invisible to the naked eye and tend to play a part in sites of reoccurring paranormal activity, so I thought it a interesting an applicable way to create the 'swirly visual' for this participants lucid dream photograph.
08/03/18 - Participant 9 had a lucid dream at a football game, in the crowd. Shrewsbury FC playing in a final at Wembley Stadium. Shrewsbury score - crowd goes wild. A flare gun goes off near the participant which causes him to become aware that he is dreaming.
08/04/18 - Shrewsbury Town vs Lincoln City for the Checkatrade Trophy Final, at Wembley Stadium.
Photographers note - This is the photograph for the lucid dream that kicked off this aspect of realism in my approach to representing the participants lucid dreams as photographs. As the fact that this participants lucid dream was actually taking place shortly after the lucid dreaming study, I couldn't think of any better way to represent this participants lucid dream in a photograph other than actually going to the event in real life and capturing it in a photograph. This then lead me down the path of trying to capture all the participants lucid dreams with some connection to reality, bringing about the inclusion in my work of the notion that there's a synchronicity between reality and dreams, a notion that is talked about quite in depth in the psychology of dreams.
09/03/18 - Participant 10 had a lucid dream about driving a blue Tesla car through a desert.
09/06/18- Driving a Tesla Car.
Photographers note - For this photograph, I (the photographer), through the use of a fellow photographers connections, reached out to the Enterprise Sales Manager, UK & Ireland for Tesla, explaining the lucid dreaming study, what my projects intentions were and If I could borrow a Tesla car for the photograph. The Enterprise Sales Manager, UK & Ireland for Tesla got back to me almost immediately with great enthusiasm for the project and arranged for me to use a Tesla car at one of their local display stores.
09/03/18 - Participant 11 had a lucid dream about floating in white light, no body, formless, vibration, sense that the surrounding atmosphere is pulsating, breathing.
Date n/a - Photogram made by shining light through a stone bought from a spiritualist store.