Researchers have shown that when people are in a drowsy state before sleep, they often have wierd hallucinations known as hypnogogic imagery. These images that come on suddenly are not under the sleeper's control and can seem as realistic as physical objects in the room. Images range from faces in the dark to ghostly shapes and colored geometric shapes. The goal in my trance state is to cultivate hypnogogic imagery.
In the act of recall, we try to reconstruct a memory - but the reconstruction is frequently in-exact resulting in distortions and missing details. Those distortions are typically psychologically induced. Stress can exaggerate these abberations. Our memories can be drastically changed if we later come across new information - even if the information is brief and wrong. Most amazingly of all, our expectations about the way things should be can insert or delete elements of a memory. If we expect to see a gun in the hand of a bank robber, we may remember exactly that, even though no gun was involved. In my art, I strive to use these abberations to show unconscious relationships in our psyche.