The Dream Theatre Narrative

In the year 2035, a deadly virus plagued the world, affecting all major cities and claiming hundreds of millions of lives. Leaders of the nations from all over the globe came together to develop a vaccine and eventually, after some grueling years, and almost a billion lives gone, a vaccine was finally developed . In the months that followed, countries all over have adopted the vaccine, and almost everyone in the world received it. And for awhile, everyone felt like life could go back to normal.

It was only much later after that people started noticing a side effect from the vaccine; most of them have lost the ability to dream. The vaccine had in fact metabolised into the brain and mutated the temporal lobe, the part responsible for our imagination and our dreams. Collectively, and suddenly, everyone who took the vaccine, and their offspring, could no longer dream. This part of history came to be known as the “Dream Sink”.

More than 100 years after the “Dream Sink”, humankind has become mundane and uncreative. Cities are now purely functional, systematic and utilitarian, stripped away from any creative feature. Only the “Dreamers”, those who were denied immunisation from the virus but survived still retained their ability to dream.

Over the past century however, the Dreamers were ostracised for their bold and adventurous nature, and were treated as less than humans. Sometimes, they were tortured, and forced to live their lives without creativity and imagination like everybody else.

As an act of revolt, the Dreamers built a large theatre tucked, in the canyons, away from the city. They called it the Dream Theatre: a place where they could project their dream world for the Non-Dreamers to experience. The Dream Theatre, is a tower-like structure and it opens its entrances during the months of seasonal low tide during the months when the Earth’s tidal bulges are aligned with the sun and the moon. During which, people can enter from its base and proceed up to the Observatory.

The Dream Theatre is seen as an important piece of architecture as it helps to share the culture of Dreams, something abstract, to the Non-Dreamers who previously despise the concept of dreams as they cannot imagine or visualise what they are. As you step in to the Dream Theatre, you enter another world. with the help of Virtual Reality, as dreams uploaded by the Dreamers are on full display. The person experiencing the dream is also the performer to an audience with the help of Augmented Reality.

After the life changing experience, Non-Dreamers are then offered to stay in a dream bunker within the tower where they can dream for the remainder of their lives without contact with the outside world. However, in a cruel twist of events, the Dreamers have in fact strapped their victims to an endless cycle of Nightmares; and have them work to construct and fabricate the dream fantasies for future performers elaborate plan by the Dreamers to cast their revenge on the Non-Dreamers.

Not all dreams are good.