Dream³: The Third Reality
Dream³ — The Third Reality unites artists from the NUBIA LAB 2025 community — emerging and established creators exploring the intersection of VR, AI, sound, and digital storytelling. Through poetic code, speculative design, and interactive media, each artist reimagines reality as a shared act of dreaming, where technology becomes a mirror of consciousness and connection (ESPRONCEDA, 2025).
Hotel #2: Communal Dreams
Hotel Room #2: Communal Dreams is a sculptural sleep installation by Carsten Höller, developed with dream scientist Adam Haar and artist Seth Riskin for the MIT Museum’s exhibition Lighten Up! On Biology and Time. Three participants sleep inside an engineered environment where pulses of light, sound and motion gently shape dream activity, drawing on recent MIT and Harvard research showing that dreams can be influenced in real time. The work brings art, neuroscience and architecture together to create a collective, synchronised dream experience (MIT Museum, 2025).
Dreams About Putin
Following the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, many people started to dream about the Russian president Vladimir Putin. People have recorded and shared over 1000 of these dreams on social media, creating a surreal archive of the troubled collective unconscious in times of war. In Dreams of Putin, these visions are brought to life using a combination of found footage and scenes created in Unreal Engine, a 3D graphics programme for designing computer games. Fascinating in both its experimental form and themes, this is a film that is destined to remain in the subconscious of all who see it (Sheffield Doc Fest, 2026)
Dream States by Sin Wai Kin
Dream States — the 18th edition of Artists’ Film International — explores the boundary between waking life and imagination, bringing together moving image works that reflect on how dreams shape our sense of time and identity. The programme highlights artists who use film to navigate memory, perception, and the subconscious, inviting viewers to inhabit these liminal spaces (Southwark Park Galleries, 2025).
The Island’s Collective Dream
Dreams from people living on the Isle of Sheppey are weaved together, using AI, human curation, and imagery to highlight shared motifs like carnivals, dogs, mazes, climbing, and steam. The work creates a communal dream-sequence that blends individual fragments into something collective—surfacing the emotional highs and anxieties of that community (Adam Chodzko, 2025).
cosmologyscape
Cosmologyscape is an invitation to the public to dream. Created by artists Kite and Alisha B Wormsley, and selected in Creative Time’s 2022 Open Call, the multimedia and participatory public art project unfolds across multiple sites, digital and in public space (Creative Time, 2024).
Within the space of a dream
The exhibition "Le temps d’un rêve / In the space of a dream" at the Musée des Confluences in Lyon, France, is a comprehensive exploration of dreaming, covering its science, cultural representations, and artistic endeavors (Musée des Confluences, 2024).
2020 Dreams. Toward a New Understanding of the Dreaming-Waking Continuum
The year 2020 emerged as a pivotal moment in modern history, in many overlapping and mutually reinforced ways. This interactive digital project illuminates the dramatic and epochal events of that year as witnessed from the vantage of collective dreaming (Stanford University Press, 2023).
Dreaming together: Artists mobilizing collective dreaming methods for the radical imagination
Dreams are framed as social experiences that, when shared, become tools for imagining alternatives to racial capitalism, gentrification, and settler colonialism. Artists who draw on collective dreaming practices use them to expand the radical imagination and to cultivate spaces of solidarity and resistance (Max Haiven, 2022).