how and why to transcribe them

Yoann Cormier immediately apologizes for sharing with us an intimate consideration. But it turns out that by starting to write down your nightly memories while preparing Dreamtime at the Musée des Confluences, in Lyon, the curator of the exhibition very quickly found himself confronted with a practical problem. “When you sleep together, how do you record your dreams without waking the other?” Instead of struggling in the dark with paper and pen, Yoann Cormier found another solution: his cell phone. The blue glow of the screen as lighting.

“I take notes. Sometimes it doesn’t look like anything. Sometimes in the morning I manage to decipher a word or two.” Then he transcribes them on his computer. Fascinated since childhood by dreams, without ever having resolved to record his own even though he “encouraged everyone to do so”, he now recorded “23 files of his dreams” in eighteen months. A treasure chest. “I really…