What would a dream be like when floating in space?

For her work Somnorama I, Justine Emard, in collaboration with researchers from the French Space Agency (CNES), used data collected during the sleep phases of astronauts on board the International Space Station.

The installation follows the sleep of an astronaut in outer space, observed with an EEG, from wakefulness through the phases of deep sleep to the REM stage, i.e. until the arrival of the dream. In this projection, the astronaut’s successive states of mind appear as parts of a mental landscape, showing sleep as a tangible environment where light, movement and vibrations can be experienced and in which visitors can move around using a joystick. In the immersive space of Somnorama I, you can experience the different stages of the astronaut’s sleep in an unusual visual environment, which may bring us one small step closer to understanding how existence in space affects the architecture of dreams.

Borbála Szalai