As an adult, it’s rare you get the chance to settle down in a darkened room and listen to someone read you a story.

Rarer still that you have more than an hour to shut out the sights and sounds of everyday life and let your imagination reign supreme.

EarFilms allow you to do just that. By blindfolding the audience and using sound, music and storytelling to create a fantasy world, they have created a sensory experience like no other.

Narrator and writer Daniel Marcus Clark’s soothing voice draws you into a dystopian future, where a small enclave of humans survive in a world devastated by floods. Dreaming has been outlawed, but a few rogue dreamers remain, determined to escape their Orwellian nightmare whatever the cost.

The story draws heavily on ideas from 1984 and Christopher Nolan’s Oscar-winning thriller Inception, as protagonist Jack attempts to break free from his bleak existence of monotonous routine and constant surveillance by fleeing into the dream “realms”.

The effect is stunning. With no other stimulus but sound, your imagination is left to run riot, conjuring up your own personal palette of colours and images as sounds swirl around you from the 23 speakers spaced out across the room.

It’s almost like meditation, as you let all the distractions of the modern world go and succumb to this surreal and magical form of relaxation and embrace the opportunity to dream like a child.

Such was the power of the performance, the audience were reluctant to remove their blindfolds at the end and return to reality.

Blinking in the afternoon sunlight, it felt like we had awakened from the most extraordinary dream.