Island dream Taiwan was experiencing a wave of street protests at that time, and Huang felt stirred by the unpredictable mood of the times. "My brain wouldn't sleep and I had lots of weird nightmares, some of which provided material for film scripts."
寶島大夢當時正逢台灣街頭運動高潮，紛亂的氣氛讓他心情也跟著浮動，「我的神經細胞不容易睡沈，常做些光怪陸離的惡夢，有些就成為劇本材料」。