Dreams
Blog Entry: Dreams
Blog Entry: Dreams
I've always been interested in them, if they have any meaning to them and it's the closest thing to having all kinds of adventures. Unlike TV and movies, you're not watching someone, you're not controlling a character in a video game, you're actually part of it. When it comes to books, novels, TV, films and video games about dreams.
Somnium (The Dream): (written in 1608 but not published until 1634). Said to be the first science-fiction novel, or one of them, by Johannes Kepler. Kepler describes his dream world of traveling and landing on the moon, four hundred years before the actual moon landing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1QdHfAn-lY
Kepler's Dream Come True
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFCQCsS75BQ
Alice in Wonderland (1865 novel/1951 film): The most famous dream in literature, film and animated history since Alice falls asleep at the beginning and wakes up at the end.
The Wizard Of Oz (1900 novel/1939 film): The second most famous dream in literature, animated and cinematic film history, "No. But it wasn't a dream. It was a place. And you, and you, and you, and you were there"
Little Nemo in Slumberland (1905 comic strip/1989 animated film): Nemo dreams of going to Slumberland and fighting The Nightmare King. The comic strip continues his adventures.
Where The Wild Things Are (1963 book/1973 animation): Max, who after wreaking havoc is sent to bed without his supper, he dreams or he's still awake and imagines about his bedroom becoming a mysterious jungle where the wild things are.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzKVvbR6jSw
Escape Into Night (1972 TV mini-series): Marianne's drawings become her dreams.
Paperhouse (1988 film): Anna Madden is able to create a dream world by drawing it and meets another person in it who also dreams the same dream.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgELs-vu8tA
Escape Into Night and Paperhouse are both based on the novel Marianne Dreams. The two main leads in Paperhouse were more likable, but I guess Escape Into Night they were more flawed. The novel had a sequel called Marianne and Mark, unlike the film, Mark doesn't die, which I felt didn't really need to happen in the film. They actually met in the real world in the second novel.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmQufg57TpeW_CkxJr_3RTaIojDeqrQ8Y
Time Bandits (1981 film): The ending seems like it was all just a dream at first, but the pictures that Kevin took, he still has, and a piece of rock left over from evil, it all really happen.
Dreams vs reality: thematic set decor in TIME BANDITS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vzce0q6Kth4
The Dark Crystal (1982 film): Gelflings are able to share memories called Dreamfasting where they can see into each other's past.
Dreamscape (1984 film): Alex Gardner uses his psychic abilities to enter into a person's dream.
Explorers (1985 film): Aliens send information through dreams to 3 kids to build a ship so they can come and meet them.
Total Recall (1990 film): At the end of the film, Quaid questions if this has all been a dream. Some say that it was, that at the end of the credits, you can hear the Rekall tune being played, meaning that it was all part of Quaid's Secret Agent memory implant. However... there was going to be a sequel where Schwarzenegger's character is still Douglas Quaid, now working as a reformed law enforcer. It was going to be based on "The Minority Report", but that wasn't a sequel to "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale" or based in that world.
Delirious (1991 film): Jack Gable gets knocked-out and dreams about living inside his own television program with a magic typewriter to which he can type out scenes to whatever he wants, but there are limits. He wakes up from it but at the end he says that when tried the typewriter one last time... it worked.
Beyond The Mind's Eye (1992 CGI film): There's a quote at the beginning, "You are now entering a world inside the essence of your imagination... look within your dreams, they can take you Beyond The Mind's Eye."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5zMtCvWhG0
The Gate To The Mind's Eye (1994 CGI film): A quote from the song Valley of the Mind's Eye, "A man who never dreams goes slowly mad."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFlqJ0-OfLE
DreamWeb (1994 video game): Ryan is plagued by strange dreams of an entity known as the Dreamweb. He is asked by the master monk of the Keepers to be the deliverer and kill the seven evils, who are united to break the Dreamweb and send mankind spiraling into chaos. In Diary of a (Mad?) man, however, which precedes the start of the game, it is strongly implied that Ryan is descending into psychosis and has fabricated the whole Dreamweb scenario in his mind. But the first three people Rayn was told to kill, he didn't know their names, who they are, or where they were, he was told by the Keeper. After each kill, Ryan is teleported to the Dreamweb, when he's sent back it's not where he committed the murder, but a to a different area of the city...
Tall Tale (1995): In 1905, a young boy, Daniel Hackett, draws on the inspiration of legendary western characters to find the strength to fight an evil land baron in the old west who wants to steal his family's farm and destroy their idyllic community. Even though Daniel dreams about Pecos Bill, John Henry and Paul Bunyan, by the end of the film they all come to life to help him.
Star Trek: Voyager: (1995 TV series) Episode "Waking Moments" (1998) is about the Voyager crew being assaulted in the form of nightmares. An alien species, functioning only in a dream world, disables the crew and traps them in a shared dream. Chakotay strives to stay awake and help The Doctor disable the aliens' hold on the crew, all while wondering if he is still dreaming.
Silent Hill 4: The Room (2004 video game): Henry Townshend becomes trapped in his apartment due to supernatural forces and is able to go into another world, he comes out of it by waking-up in his bed. But it's a nightmare world.
MirrorMask (2005 film): Though some have called this a fantasy film, but Helena goes to bed and then finds herself in a dream-like world.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHHE2hsTJfA
Dragon Age (2009-2014 video game): Mages are able to enter into a dream world called the Fade.
Fran Bow (2015 indie video game): Fran Bow is able to go to another dream like world... or can she?? Is it real or is it all in Fran's head due to the red pills??? But all those creatures, objects and worlds are far too complex for a child to come up with on their own, Fran was able to know cretin things about a person, Philmore and Oswald knew about Remor, Itward stopped Fran's aunt Grace and Oswald, Dr. Deern was able to see both Itward and Palontras...
Somnium (The Dream): (written in 1608 but not published until 1634). Said to be the first science-fiction novel, or one of them, by Johannes Kepler. Kepler describes his dream world of traveling and landing on the moon, four hundred years before the actual moon landing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1QdHfAn-lY
Kepler's Dream Come True
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFCQCsS75BQ
Alice in Wonderland (1865 novel/1951 film): The most famous dream in literature, film and animated history since Alice falls asleep at the beginning and wakes up at the end.
The Wizard Of Oz (1900 novel/1939 film): The second most famous dream in literature, animated and cinematic film history, "No. But it wasn't a dream. It was a place. And you, and you, and you, and you were there"
Little Nemo in Slumberland (1905 comic strip/1989 animated film): Nemo dreams of going to Slumberland and fighting The Nightmare King. The comic strip continues his adventures.
Where The Wild Things Are (1963 book/1973 animation): Max, who after wreaking havoc is sent to bed without his supper, he dreams or he's still awake and imagines about his bedroom becoming a mysterious jungle where the wild things are.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzKVvbR6jSw
Escape Into Night (1972 TV mini-series): Marianne's drawings become her dreams.
Paperhouse (1988 film): Anna Madden is able to create a dream world by drawing it and meets another person in it who also dreams the same dream.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgELs-vu8tA
Escape Into Night and Paperhouse are both based on the novel Marianne Dreams. The two main leads in Paperhouse were more likable, but I guess Escape Into Night they were more flawed. The novel had a sequel called Marianne and Mark, unlike the film, Mark doesn't die, which I felt didn't really need to happen in the film. They actually met in the real world in the second novel.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmQufg57TpeW_CkxJr_3RTaIojDeqrQ8Y
Time Bandits (1981 film): The ending seems like it was all just a dream at first, but the pictures that Kevin took, he still has, and a piece of rock left over from evil, it all really happen.
Dreams vs reality: thematic set decor in TIME BANDITS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vzce0q6Kth4
The Dark Crystal (1982 film): Gelflings are able to share memories called Dreamfasting where they can see into each other's past.
Dreamscape (1984 film): Alex Gardner uses his psychic abilities to enter into a person's dream.
Explorers (1985 film): Aliens send information through dreams to 3 kids to build a ship so they can come and meet them.
Total Recall (1990 film): At the end of the film, Quaid questions if this has all been a dream. Some say that it was, that at the end of the credits, you can hear the Rekall tune being played, meaning that it was all part of Quaid's Secret Agent memory implant. However... there was going to be a sequel where Schwarzenegger's character is still Douglas Quaid, now working as a reformed law enforcer. It was going to be based on "The Minority Report", but that wasn't a sequel to "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale" or based in that world.
Delirious (1991 film): Jack Gable gets knocked-out and dreams about living inside his own television program with a magic typewriter to which he can type out scenes to whatever he wants, but there are limits. He wakes up from it but at the end he says that when tried the typewriter one last time... it worked.
Beyond The Mind's Eye (1992 CGI film): There's a quote at the beginning, "You are now entering a world inside the essence of your imagination... look within your dreams, they can take you Beyond The Mind's Eye."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5zMtCvWhG0
The Gate To The Mind's Eye (1994 CGI film): A quote from the song Valley of the Mind's Eye, "A man who never dreams goes slowly mad."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFlqJ0-OfLE
DreamWeb (1994 video game): Ryan is plagued by strange dreams of an entity known as the Dreamweb. He is asked by the master monk of the Keepers to be the deliverer and kill the seven evils, who are united to break the Dreamweb and send mankind spiraling into chaos. In Diary of a (Mad?) man, however, which precedes the start of the game, it is strongly implied that Ryan is descending into psychosis and has fabricated the whole Dreamweb scenario in his mind. But the first three people Rayn was told to kill, he didn't know their names, who they are, or where they were, he was told by the Keeper. After each kill, Ryan is teleported to the Dreamweb, when he's sent back it's not where he committed the murder, but a to a different area of the city...
Tall Tale (1995): In 1905, a young boy, Daniel Hackett, draws on the inspiration of legendary western characters to find the strength to fight an evil land baron in the old west who wants to steal his family's farm and destroy their idyllic community. Even though Daniel dreams about Pecos Bill, John Henry and Paul Bunyan, by the end of the film they all come to life to help him.
Star Trek: Voyager: (1995 TV series) Episode "Waking Moments" (1998) is about the Voyager crew being assaulted in the form of nightmares. An alien species, functioning only in a dream world, disables the crew and traps them in a shared dream. Chakotay strives to stay awake and help The Doctor disable the aliens' hold on the crew, all while wondering if he is still dreaming.
Silent Hill 4: The Room (2004 video game): Henry Townshend becomes trapped in his apartment due to supernatural forces and is able to go into another world, he comes out of it by waking-up in his bed. But it's a nightmare world.
MirrorMask (2005 film): Though some have called this a fantasy film, but Helena goes to bed and then finds herself in a dream-like world.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHHE2hsTJfA
Dragon Age (2009-2014 video game): Mages are able to enter into a dream world called the Fade.
Fran Bow (2015 indie video game): Fran Bow is able to go to another dream like world... or can she?? Is it real or is it all in Fran's head due to the red pills??? But all those creatures, objects and worlds are far too complex for a child to come up with on their own, Fran was able to know cretin things about a person, Philmore and Oswald knew about Remor, Itward stopped Fran's aunt Grace and Oswald, Dr. Deern was able to see both Itward and Palontras...