Digital Dreams: An Antidote To Creative Burnout.

What is our relationship to the digital world?

Within the last 20 years We have found ourselves placed directly in the middle of a reality that certainly cannot be conceived as part of our natural universe. The processes can be overwhelming and exponential. Mostly everyone who works in a technological field is familiar with the feeling of burnout. You have hit a wall your eyes are blurry; software can only translate so much of what you are trying to say and worst of all your creativity has come to a complete standstill. So, what is the solution? Is there a solution at all? Or do we just accept this as a technological or even philosophical limitation? Recently while talking to a friend over zoom, he asked whether or not I dreamed about the digital aspects of my existence, a very interesting and thought-provoking question. It would make perfect sense for the activities that consume more than half of my waking life to make at least a subtle appearance in my dreams. But of course, I have never witnessed anything involving cellular devices or 3d models, point clouds, databases, programming languages, layout grids, or anything associated with a digital alter ego in my dreams. He mentioned that “it is almost like these things don’t exist in our subconscious” I considered that there may be a lot of truth to this statement. Continuing on with my day I became determined to link this new discovery to my own struggles with inspiration and creativity. I wondered if perhaps this realization is what lies at the base of our burnout and limited frustration.