For me, personally, sleeping is a very private activity. I get very uncomfortable if there are people in the room who are not sleeping when I want/try to sleep and I can never fall asleep in public places. This assignment seemed to test my public space consciousness and personal awareness. Self consciousness is a big issue in my life, they way I am perceived and how I present myself to others. I guess I always felt embarrassed when sleeping in public or infront of other people because you cannot control what you look like or if you drool, snore, talk, etc. While attempting to sleep outside on the sidewalk, it was very hard to just lay there with my eyes closed in the first place. I felt awkward and out of place, out of my own environment.
This assignment help me understand my personal space boundaries. I had to break the barriers of the comfort zone and just go for an out the box idea no matter what it took. In the end I didn't get to actually take a nap, I would doze off here and there but kept waking up. Self perception, or rather self image, is a big issue in today's society. We attempt to give off a certain "look" by the way we dress, walk, speak, act, style our hair, etc. This assignment in particular reminded me how big of an impact society puts on "images". From selecting our profile pictures to posing a certain way to take pictures, we consciously control every aspect of how we want others to see us or how we want to be seen. Ironically the only time we cannot control our "image" is when we sleep. By sleeping in public I hope to break the binary of the controlled "image" and all its underlying meaning.
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