"FASHION needs to generate dreams," Roberto Cavalli said before his show here on Sunday.
The anxiety that comes of tempting fate, especially in pursuit of such an indulgence, helps generate dreams of death by suffocation or falling.
That these inert patients could generate dreams was a "most unexpected result," said the study's authors, a team of French neurologists, neuroscientists and sleep specialists based in several institutes in Paris.
A significant work of the period is "Insomnias" (1957), whose diaphanous scrims and fractured planes generate dream spaces that can't be easily fathomed, but in which bodies, body parts and biomorphic suggestions can be teased out like pieces of a rebus.
At each level in the layered dreaming, the person generating the dream stays behind to set up a "kick" that will be used to awaken the other sleeping team members who have entered another dream layer deeper.
The ultimate aim, probably not reachable for decades, is to answer such fundamental questions as how the brain generates thoughts, dreams, memories, perception and consciousness — and to find ways to intervene and influence such brain activities.
The ultimate aim is to learn how the brain generates thoughts, dreams, memories, perceptions and other mental images; how it stores and retrieves vast quantities of data; and how it learns from experience or education.
And the piece is isn't fluid enough to generate a dream-like mood or the spectral beauty it's after.
The book, which is slated for a September release, has already generated publicist-dream buzz, and we suspect that they'll come up with all kinds of clever and/or goofy ways to promote the book throughout the summer, drawing the curious and the disdainful back, likely in equal numbers, like a herd to the salt lick.
