Entering Paintings.

**Tranquil Toad** · 09-19-2011 11:04 PM

Anyone managed to do this? I often see beautiful artwork laying around in my dreams, and I thought it would be cool to go inside the images, transforming them into a scene. Found a calender the other night with some pretty wild landscapes in it, but trying to enter it just resulted in my head hitting the paper.

Any ideas or stories?

**SaiC** · 09-19-2011 11:18 PM

Don't look at the picture, look inside the picture. Think of it more like a window. If things inside are getting 3d, then the rest should be simple.

**Tranquil Toad** · 09-19-2011 11:21 PM

I was thinking something similar, if I can get the image to have depth it should be easy.

**Binsk** · 09-19-2011 11:22 PM

Took the words right out of my fingers.

When you want to enter it, think of it not as a 2D image, but a door to a new 3D location. Try walking back and forth by it a few times, and let the image shift to match your view, then just try climbing in.

**Quantiq** · 09-19-2011 11:24 PM

Most of time, when people want to appear in different landscapes or change their dream scene, they imagine a door and behind the door they imagine a completely new landscape or scene. I believe this is the easiest method.

**Tranquil Toad** · 09-19-2011 11:31 PM

Originally Posted by Quantiq

Most of time, when people want to appear in different landscapes or change their dream scene, they imagine a door and behind the door they imagine a completely new landscape or scene. I believe this is the easiest method.

Ya I've done that, which as you said is probably the easiest. Its more for the novelty of walking into a painting, plus so many of them have really wild scenes in them that I wouldn't be able to think up.

**BeeClock** · 09-22-2011 01:17 AM

Ha ha ha... mario 64 and the paintings XD

**Mancon** · 09-22-2011 01:39 AM

Yes, I love doing this. I find that I do it often.

**Arch** · 09-22-2011 10:39 PM

That is a great idea, I am definitely going to make a dreamscape in a painting and use it to teleport to a new place.

**dark_grimmjow** · 09-23-2011 12:38 AM

Originally Posted by BeeClock

Ha ha ha... mario 64 and the paintings XD

This is exactly what i thought of as soon as i saw the thread subject.

Just think of the paintings as portals to the place depicted in the painting. When mario jumps into the paintings in the Super Mario 64 game, they ripple as if he were jumping into water. So just think of the paintings as portals with liquid-like surfaces. Go play some mario 64 and that'll help! haha

**Mancon** · 09-23-2011 04:41 AM

Originally Posted by dark_grimmjow

This is exactly what i thought of as soon as i saw the thread subject.

Just think of the paintings as portals to the place depicted in the painting. When mario jumps into the paintings in the Super Mario 64 game, they ripple as if he were jumping into water. So just think of the paintings as portals with liquid-like surfaces. Go play some mario 64 and that'll help! haha

Haha I never thought of that!

**b12** · 09-24-2011 03:17 AM

Originally Posted by Tranquil Toad

Anyone managed to do this? I often see beautiful artwork laying around in my dreams, and I thought it would be cool to go inside the images, transforming them into a scene. Found a calender the other night with some pretty wild landscapes in it, but trying to enter it just resulted in my head hitting the paper.

Any ideas or stories?

That's such a good idea. I wonder what paintings and scenes will happen if you decided to walk down a hallway full of random paintings. Or visited the Louvre.

Originally Posted by SaiC

Don't look at the picture, look inside the picture. Think of it more like a window. If things inside are getting 3d, then the rest should be simple.

I always imagined just running and jumping into one

Originally Posted by Quantiq

Most of time, when people want to appear in different landscapes or change their dream scene, they imagine a door and behind the door they imagine a completely new landscape or scene. I believe this is the easiest method.

There is a method I heard of where you spin around in one spot, close your eyes and imagine the next place you want to be. And from what I hear this works. Also, this may be a method of increasing and prolonging lucidity, as well as making the dream more vivid.

**Mancon** · 09-24-2011 03:38 AM

I usually just back away from the painting and slowly walk towards it. I focus in the center of the painting and literally imagine me walking into it.

**Quantiq** · 09-24-2011 04:25 AM

Originally Posted by b12

There is a method I heard of where you spin around in one spot, close your eyes and imagine the next place you want to be. And from what I hear this works. Also, this may be a method of increasing and prolonging lucidity, as well as making the dream more vivid.

Interesting. Perhaps this could be used as a method to enter paintings. You would first look at the painting and imagine its landscape and then start spinning to go there.