Just curious as to how many people have seen the movie Waking Life directed by Richard Linklater whose other films include Dazed and Confused and A Scanner Darkly. The movie is very surreal and it's about a dream within a dream within a dream within a dream... all of the characters in the movie are actually dream characters created by the main character. At times he is aware he is dreaming (lucid), and even has a conversation about knowing he's in a dream with one of them (something i've done before :) ) Im fairly certain watching this movie, and the string of circumstance that lead me to it is responsible for stimulating my lucid dreaming, which started about 7 months ago now:
I attened Bonnaroo a massive music festival in Manchester, TN this past year that 80,000+ people attended (If you've never heard of Bonnaroo go to bonnaroo.com, last years headliners were Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and Radiohead and like 50 other acts of 4 days. It Rocked MY WORLD ).
WEll one day i was sitting under this tree with a friend of mine, and some random people sat down next to us. We started up a conversation which quickly turned to movies, ones like Donny Darko and Requiem for a Dream. One of them suggested that if I liked those movies I would love this movie called Waking Life. Well, anyway we got up a few minutes later and i nearly forgot entirely about the conversation as i was stoned and on my way towards the summit of MushroomMountain.
The day i returned back to Ohio, another friend of mine who had actually attended the festival too but who i wasnt with calls me up and tells me about this movie that was on the independant film channel called Waking Life, he said it was quote, "My Kind of Movie". Instantly, the memory of the conversation came flooding back to me and I grew quite excited. I thus began a quest to see this movie. It took me a few days to find a copy of it, but once I did i was extremely satisfied with my viewing experience and the latent stage effects of the impression i came away with.
There is a scene with this one character who is really into Lucid dreaming, and he is talking about different RC's that you can try inside of dreams, like looking at a watch or trying to read fine print. But the one that really stuck with me was Flipping a light switch, because you arent able to manipulate light the same in dreams. So a few days later i remember having a dream where i saw a lightswitch and i can remember thinking... i should flip that... to my surprise after i did... the light just remained ON, and i suddenly became lucid standing in my dream flipping the light switch. What was weird though is eventually i could get the lights to go on and off... but it was always out of sync with the flipping of the switch, which led me to believe that i was willing the lights off and on.
Anyway, If you've seen the movie, i'd like to hear your impressions of it, and if you havent and you are having trouble attaining lucidity... I HIGHLY SUGGEST VIEWING IT!!!!!!!!