Waking up to something new...

The word ‘mundane’ in the dictionary means lacking interest/excitement or dull.

Lot of activities in most people’s life could be described this way. They are the things you have to do, rather than you wish to do. It is the routine and also a necessity.

Some people feel great about the routine activities. 

They like the repetition, the process, they find it comforting. 

Some like some of the routine activities but at the same time look forward to doing or going through something new everyday.

I personally would like to experience something new daily. 

It might be something as simple as catching a butterfly or more sophisticated as learning a new design software. 

But in todays world not everyone has the time to do a new thing daily. 

Thats when i thought why not use the upcoming medium of virtual reality to help people experience different things when they wake up and when they are getting ready for work.

For the project of this semester i thought i would try to do a new thing daily for few days and make a record of all of the things and use it to display when the alarm clock goes off. 

Being a design student, i thought i would pick a suitable theme for each weekday Monday to Sunday depending on the general mood of people on working days and weekends.

Example:

Monday morning would probably be a lazy one after the weekend..so the theme for the new thing could be something easy and relaxing...

For Tuesday morning the theme could be a bit more complicated as well as creative...

Saturday might be a day where people want to wake up to something fun..

...and so on for the other days.

I could analyse how these things affect my other activities.

A comparison of the days on which i do a new thing and on which i don't would turn out to be pretty interesting i think.

In the movie The Groundhog day the lead actor gets caught in a time loop.

The part which i found interesting was when he stops worrying about the fact that time has stopped and instead decides to make full use of the time by learning new things and having fun.

In the book The Metomophosis i noticed the main character becomes isolated because of the changes he goes through.

It highlights the fact that the people who deviate from the norm are isolated.

This story mirrors the way humans to this day treat others who are different.

I also noticed how the reaction of people around him and the people close to him is influenced his attitude towards himself.

I also think that instead of just assuming that gregor could not communicate since he had transformed..the family should have tried to communicate with him even if he could not actually speak.

Also the fact that his family felt relief for themselves at his death highlights the fact that humans can become very self-centered.