Posts Tagged ‘Dreams’

Whitley Strieber’s Dream

August 12, 2010Henry Baum No Comments »

Whitley Strieber wrote about his UFO dream:
In the dream, I was with Anne in a sort of bookshop-restaurant where we were looking at books and waiting for lunch. Suddenly, there was a commotion outside. I went out and saw a number of enormous machines in the sky. They were not ordinary UFOs, but different shapes [...]

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The Edge of Dreaming

August 5, 2010Henry Baum No Comments »

Looks interesting:

This is the story of a rational, sceptical woman, a mother and wife, who does not remember her dreams. Except once, when she dreamt her horse was dying. She woke so scared she went outside in the night. She found him dead. The next dream told her she would die [...]

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Inception as Mind Control

August 2, 2010Henry Baum No Comments »

Though I don’t think “Inception” offers much exploration about the nature of reality – even if that’s what people keep saying about it – it does offer something about the nature of society.  The reason it’s not really about “is reality a dream?” is because the rules of “Inception” are pretty straight-forward.  In a dream, [...]

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Inception: A Review

July 26, 2010Henry Baum No Comments »

(Note: this may include spoilers)
“Inception” was fucking incredible, but not entirely what I was hoping for. I was hoping for more of a “Matrix”-style exploration of “What is reality?” – if dreams are as tactile as reality, then maybe reality is no different than a dream. The movie does that somewhat, but the [...]

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Dreams

July 20, 2010Henry Baum No Comments »

I haven’t seen “Inception” yet.  It’s basically the only movie I want to see in the theatre this summer.  My novel’s also about dreams – blurring the line between dreams and reality – so it no doubt interests me.  Maybe, just maybe, the movie will spark more interest in my novel.  Plot: writer starts dreaming/writing [...]

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