Importance of dreams/meditating&Dreamcore

Many sources including the Sleepfoundation highlight the importance of sleeps and dreams.

"Dreams are images, thoughts, or feelings that occur during sleep." Which occasionally involve elements of past memories. Dreams are a part of sleep that is associated with the processing of things that have happened, they are taught to give your brain a chance to recap these events. 

Suni, E. (2022) Dreams: Why we dream & how they affect sleep, Sleep Foundation. Available at: https://www.sleepfoundation.org/dreams (Accessed: February 4, 2023). Dreams: Why We Dream & How They Affect Sleep | Sleep Foundation 

Harvard Medical School also touches on the aspect of memories and "bizarre" sequences. 

The Characteristics of Sleep | Healthy Sleep (harvard.edu)

Division of Sleep Medicine at Harvard Medical School. (2007, December 18). The Characteristics of Sleep., Retrieved February 13, 2023, fromhttp://healthysleep.med.harvard.edu/healthy/science/what/characteristics

How to meditate in VR | Tristan Gribbin | TEDxReykjavik - YouTube This video shares how meditation in vr can have a positive effect. 

There is an aesthetic called dream core which is defined by Dreamcore | Aesthetics Wiki | Fandom as a surrealist aesthetic with dream-like elements and elements linked with nostalgia or liminal spaces.

Full article: Lost items and exposed shame – dreamcore’s inheritance and transcendence of liminal space and defamiliarization (herts.ac.uk)

Wu, H. (2022) ‘Lost items and exposed shame - dreamcore's inheritance and transcendence of liminal space and defamiliarization’, Journal for cultural research, 26(2), pp. 153–165.

This journal article gives some more insight into Dreamcore and its psychological aspects.

2 Billion People Play Video Games to Relax, 1.6B to take a Break (nostrabet.com)

This article gives some statistics about people playing games to relax.