{"id":1823,"date":"2010-09-11T12:41:02","date_gmt":"2010-09-11T18:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1823"},"modified":"2010-09-11T12:43:38","modified_gmt":"2010-09-11T18:43:38","slug":"a-movie-that-takes-dreaming-seriously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1823","title":{"rendered":"A Movie That Takes Dreaming Seriously"},"content":{"rendered":"

The best part about watching movies in the little mountain town is that after driving the four-block length of Main Street, we enter the darkness, winding through hills and a long canyon, then a mile of gravel road, and then home.<\/p>\n

It lets the movie’s spell slowly fade, which is helpful after watching Inception<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

(The second-best thing is that the little theatre’s sound-system does not rattle your fillings, unlike a typical Tinseltown movie box.)<\/p>\n

In the game of describing movies in terms of other movies, I thought of a hyperdimensional Flatliners<\/em> <\/a>with the Gnostic overtones of The Matrix <\/em><\/a>and a faint, faint whiff of Lost Horizon.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Anne Hill, who has better access than I to first-run movies, blogged about Inception<\/em> last month.<\/a><\/p>\n

Today [unlike the ancients], we say that we “had” a dream, and believe that dreams come from within us, like a cough, a bad mood, or a stirring in our souls. We worry that dreams reveal something disturbed in our psychological makeup, or we try to explain them away by saying they are just random brain activity. “Inception’s” success as a thriller stems in part from turning the tables on our “scientific” understanding of dreams, and bringing back the more archaic fear of dream-meddling from without.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

She links to Robert Waggoner, who writes on lucid dreaming\u2014read his post, “Ten Things I Like about Inception<\/em><\/a>.”<\/p>\n

If you step outside of Plato\u2019s physical cave and stumble into Plato\u2019s lucid dream cave, who\u2019s to know?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I still think that not enough teaching about the Craft talks about dreaming and its power. Even though Inception<\/em> is mostly about corporate espionage, exploding cars, shoot-outs, and derring-do, I admire a movie that takes the dreaming world(s) seriously as realms that interact with this one.<\/p>\n

Do you know if you are dreaming right now?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The best part about watching movies in the little mountain town is that after driving the four-block length of Main Street, we enter the darkness, winding through hills and a long canyon, then a mile of gravel road, and then home. It lets the movie’s spell slowly fade, which is helpful after watching Inception. 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