Speckles

While doing my initial research I started thinking about what is it that I WANT TO DO?
Something funny, something serious,make.a.statement, thought.provoking, simple.goodlooking.powerful? WHAT?
Over the last week I've had two ideas.They are my first and now is just the begining of my ideation process,so i feel it important to get them out of my head and put them into words.
Here goes:
Yawn
This idea came from a pretty simple observation that happened while i was talking to a friend of mine on Skype about a week ago.It was pretty late at night, actually the wee hours of the morning. We both had our cameras on; and soon half way into the conversation i yawned. A few seconds later, given the delay caused by slow internet connections, he yawned too. This continued for a few minutes after which we started discussing the phenomenon of yawning and how it acts as a visual trigger.We then talked about how they work in public spaces like trains, buses, coffee shops etc.
we pushed it further by saying -what if a screen was erected in a public place, like a street, and every few seconds the passerbys saw an image of a person yawning on the screen, causing them,in turn, to yawn!
This got me thinking about how one could use the same visual trigger and bring it into one's personal space(like bedroom).What if one could have an image of a yawn, that would appear around bed time, or say for insomniacs, the image is programmed to appear every fifteen minutes,causing a physical response in the viewer and implying that its time to sleep?



Reminders
The second idea came from me setting an alarm on my phone to remind me of a mail i had to send off.This got me thinking about the different things people do to recall different tasks they had to do- such as tying strings around their fingers, circling dates on calenders, writing postits, journal entries etc.
Given that one of focus areas of my project is to establish a relationship with between people and spaces, I thought of how one could translate the same response to a visual/physical stimuli,the basic principle that reminders work with, into one's work/private spaces.
What if these spaces had artifacts that had visual cues that appeared and they worked on the the same premise.So for example- pattern that appeared for birthdays or a colour spot for important meetings and other such visual cues that stimulated the memory and established an association with the imagery and an event?