Centuries of Broken Sleep
A downloadable game for Windows
A demo for an ongoing interactive project about the history of narcolepsy, seen through the lens of those who discovered it, and those who have tried to treat it, exploring the knock on effects of those attempts.
A project trying to find the histories and ghosts of a chronic disorder, created by a person with narcolepsy.
This demo takes you to an abstracted 19th century medical clinic in central Paris, owned and run by Dr. Jean Baptiste-Édouard Gélineau, the first person to recognise narcolepsy as a distinct disorder and to give it its name. Featuring an atmospheric poetry garden.
Further expansion of this project aims to investigate the American amphetamine addiction crisis of the 30's onwards, and Stanford's narcoleptic dog labs.
All support and feedback is greatly appreciated.
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as someone with narcolepsy and hypersomnia, this intrigues me from the get-go. I will look at it and share my thoughts afterward!
thanks! it was my final project for an art + history degree that shrunk in scope due to the pandemic, so it's a rough idea, but I'd love to work on something like it again some time.
I hadn't seen a representation of narcolepsy in media that wasn't exagerrated or comedic somehow, and so my aim was to widen the net slightly, present it from these other vantages and points of interest.