"Waking Dreams"

So before today, I was intending to use the idea of "waking dreams", (that drifting moment between sleeping and literally "waking up"... Between dreaming/reality, where things are malleable and possible before being fixed through waking, where reality and a dream are indistinguishable) to inform my virtual reality project ....

How does the mushroom come in, you ask?

With the juxtaposition/placement of a "dream" object (see popular culture "Alice in Wonderland", cartoon Mario and Magic Mushrooms) in "real" scenario (the section)- kind of a shock effect.

But apparently it's supposed to be architecture in the form of a building-

So back to Square One.