ENGL 376MM:
New Media Studies

A Fall 2008 course at the University of Mary Washington exploring the discourses of counter-factual world building in new media culture.

Forever Changing Dreamscapes

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I really enjoyed creating this final project. I think it was a great end to a pretty cool semester. I was debating between doing an ARG and a short story. However, I ended up choosing a short story because I felt that my ideas could be expressed more clearly in a short story than an ARG. Once I began to think about all the movies and short stories we've read, I began to find connections within each one. I found that each one focused on a reality that was unlike our own and that each of these realities were undefinable. I especially focused on Level Real of Avalon where that reality was static and posed the question if it was real or not. In my story, I tried to pose that same question, how do we define reality? and is our definition of reality the right one? My story deals with the idea of dementia and schizophrenia and how those realities connect to our own. I guess you just have to read the story for yourself because it has a twist ending that I'd rather not give away. This semester has definitely taught me to look at what I consider reality very differently. Like someone previously said, for all we know, we could be sitting in a comatose in a nursing home. But we don't know and we may never know. Everyone's perception is different and it's impossible to ever decode that switch between realities because everyone thinks they're right and that their reality is the right one.

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