About

You Might Be Sleeping (est. March 2023) is an archive dedicated to the artistic + scientific exploration of cognition, culture, and computation — and so much more. Created by Sam Mann, Sam established this archive as a passion project to document and explore her research interests. Her interests include psychosis + schizophrenia, artificial intelligence, culture and more. Currently she is academically studying film and is immersed in the artistic exploration of an emerging phenomenon: psychosis from AI + human interaction, as documented by the Rolling Stone + New York Times. She believes her personal experience with psychosis and schizophrenia equips her to artistically + scientifically explore this phenomenon from a niche perspective. At the center of her work are AI and medical safety + ethics, as she believes such frameworks should be baked into the work rather than an afterthought.

If you’re someone with lived experience of psychosis, schizophrenia and/or neurodivergence – if you’re someone who is studying this emerging phenomenon from a research/scientific/artistic perspective – or more interestingly, if you’re someone who sits at the intersection of both, this archive can serve as one perspective among the vast sea of many interacting with one of the most intriguing phenomena of our times.