Lucid Dreams Featured in StarTrek

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06-29-2009, 02:10 PM
ethan_hines

Lucid Dreams Featured in StarTrek

If this isn't the right place for this topic please forgive me but I felt it relivent to show how much Star Trek has influenced my life:lol:

According to the Lucid Wiki (http://lucid.wikia.com/wiki/LucidWiki:Main_Page the following Star Trek Episored Featured Lucid Dreaming as a theme.

In the Star Trek: The Next Generation 4th season episode "Night Terrors", Counselor Deanna Troi uses lucid dreaming to communicate with an unseen vessel that is trapped in a space anomaly with the Enterprise D and another Starfleet ship, cooperating with the other crew to destroy the anomaly and free all the ships.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ht_Terrors.jpg
From Wikipedia--Deanna dreams in "Night Terrors".

In the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Waking Moments", Chakotay used lucid dreaming (including an image of Earth's moon as a personal reality checking symbol), in order to wake himself from a deep sleep state induced by an alien culture. The episode also incorporates false awakenings.
http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/me...ens_Asleep.jpg
From: memory-alpha.org...The aliens in the dreams asleep in the waking world

Questions: How do you sopose the Akoonah acts as an electronic lucid dream initiator (speculation) ?
Do you know of any other references to LD in StarTrek?
06-29-2009, 03:14 PM
Shift

I had to google Akoonah because I had no idea what it was. Since it's a fictional show, I think it works by someone writing it into the script with the intention of it working... I guess? Is that what you're asking??

I know Spockman also learned of lucid dreaming from the show, he had posted it a few days ago on some thread that I came across. I've seen like 5 minutes of Star Trek so I wouldn't know of other references, but considering the link he's got with LDing and the show, he might.
06-30-2009, 04:56 AM
spockman

Yep, I did learn about LD from the show. (Hence why I named myself after Spock on an LD forum.) There is also the VOY episode with the clown guy. It is about a species who needed to go into extended hiberation, so they made a machine which would give them infinite dream control in thier dreams to occupy them until they woke up.

Data can LD at will after he gets his dream program installed.

How the dream machine works- *shrug.* However, it makes it so that they can't wake up. Maybe that has something to do with it.
06-30-2009, 05:00 AM
Infinityecho

Nice post.
I always wondered what specific Native American tribe Chakotay belongs to?

My example would be
Phantasms (Star Trek: The Next Generation)

only cuz nightmares are what started my LDs
06-30-2009, 02:36 PM
ethan_hines

Quote:

Originally Posted by spockman

How the dream machine works- *shrug.* However, it makes it so that they can't wake up. Maybe that has something to do with it.

I forgot about that one... I learned the true meaning of fear from that episode.
06-30-2009, 02:42 PM
Caradon

the Voyager episode was cool. I was pretty surprised when I saw that.

I've seen other people mention that they learned of Lucid Dreaming from that too.
07-01-2009, 04:15 PM
madeofparts

Inner Light.

The Star Trek TNG episode Inner Light is one of the best 'awaking while in a dream' pieces of filmery I have ever seen.

http://www.startrek.com/imageuploads...te/240x320.jpg

:bowdown:

Patrick Stewart is a godlike actor and he does the whole dreaming, not-believing the dream, getting sucked into it, and so-on, and this episode is well worth watching from start to finish.
Highly recommended.
07-01-2009, 04:53 PM
cygnus

oh man, the inner light is an incredible episode!! i love it at the very end when picard remembers how to play a flute song from his other life.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Infinityecho

I always wondered what specific Native American tribe Chakotay belongs to?

a made-up one - there was an episode where they explained how his dad was part of a tribe influenced by alien visitors who live on a planet in the delta quadrant.
07-01-2009, 06:13 PM
ethan_hines

Let's not forget the "Nexus"

Remember when Captain Kirk was completely convinced he was in a dream but didn't care. Awesome Script.
http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/me..._breakfast.jpgTwo captains. One breakfast.
07-01-2009, 07:02 PM
madeofparts

Lol, Kirk rocks!
I can't count how many reality checks Kirk must have done in the first series...
You can almost see him thinking "WTF? Reality Check! Dreaming again? I'm so used to this... Who are these weirdos? Who's the hot chick?"

I have a theory that the entire Star Trek universe since the episode "The Cage" is just a dream of Captian Pike.... That would explain a lot :-?
03-10-2010, 06:05 PM
ethan_hines

Quote:

Originally Posted by madeofparts

The Star Trek TNG episode Inner Light is one of the best 'awaking while in a dream' pieces of filmery I have ever seen.

http://www.startrek.com/imageuploads...te/240x320.jpg

:bowdown:

Patrick Stewart is a godlike actor and he does the whole dreaming, not-believing the dream, getting sucked into it, and so-on, and this episode is well worth watching from start to finish.
Highly recommended.

Has anyone here experienced a LD like that...I.E An entire lifetime in an LD??
03-10-2010, 09:37 PM
spockman

Quote:

Originally Posted by ethan_hines

Has anyone here experienced a LD like that...I.E An entire lifetime in an LD??

Yes, but it wasn't an LD. Just a normal dream. Screwed me up for a little bit there.
03-10-2010, 11:37 PM
J.D.

Quote:

Originally Posted by madeofparts

The Star Trek TNG episode Inner Light is one of the best 'awaking while in a dream' pieces of filmery I have ever seen.

http://www.startrek.com/imageuploads...te/240x320.jpg

:bowdown:

Patrick Stewart is a godlike actor and he does the whole dreaming, not-believing the dream, getting sucked into it, and so-on, and this episode is well worth watching from start to finish.
Highly recommended.

I remember that one! It was brilliant. Strange that I've only ever watched Star Trek like 3 times and that was one of the episodes.