My quick sketch of the layout to Plato's cave "The Allegory of The Cave"
Photos are authors own
Whilst looking back on my research I noticed a little note I had made about metaphors for the mind, and one read "the cave". This lead me to look into Plato's allegory and I found myself making comparisons between the story and the structure of dreams. I then began to match up the structure of the allegory to that of dreams and other accessories to sleep e.g. Sleep paralysis. It's profound ideas and metaphors related well to the concept of escapism. I linked the story with dreams as such:
Manifest Content = what the prisoners see
Lucidity = the freed prisoner
OBE/Sleep paralysis = rising into sunlight/forced into the unknown
Awakening = Viewing the sun
Re-entering the dream state = going back into the cave
My plan is to make a storyboard that represents the relationship I seem to have woven between these to things. Incorporating Plato's imagery as well as that of the new age mentality.
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