Peter Pan a Movie/Book on Lucid Dreaming?

[Sotik]

If you think about the movies/Books with Peter Pan, it makes you wonder if they were inspired or about lucid dreaming. Because you have a movie where at night some how someone ends up in Neverland, where no one ages, and your dreams come true, and if you believe hard enough you can fly, but you have to think happy thoughts. To me this kind of screams lucid dream, like Alice in Wonderland does. Sorry if there is already a topic on this but I did a search and could not find such a topic and for some reason I was thinking about Peter Pan while on these forums and it kinda clicked, "Wait a minute, that sounds like a lucid dream if I ever heard one!"

[no-Name]

Well the dream control, maybe. But other than the obvious fantasy, it just seems like another vague fairytale. Not trying to burst any bubbles, I think it would be great inspiration for some ideas, but I don't see how it's dream related. Or maybe I haven't seen the movie/read the book in a while

[Sotik]

Yeah it has been a while since I have seen or read the books too, but if I recall correctly things would always happen at night when they were suppose to be going to sleep, or they would be in bed trying to sleep but then they are visited by Peter who takes them off to a far away place where your dreams come true and so on. But once their adventure is over, they end up waking up in their beds. I don't think the movies/books are to promote lucid dreaming, its just the way they are written, seems to suggest that maybe they might have been inspired by lucid dreaming. Either way as you said it is a great example of dream control, if you believe it, it will happen Just think happy thoughts, lol.

[VirtualReality]

Haha, never thought about that... I have thought about working with dreams perhaps lucid dreams in art for the big yearassignment, but I ended up choosing algorithmic composition in expressionistic music and composition in expressionistic litterature I thought about "Dreamer" by Supertramp (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1auRCameVY).. It Also seems to be inspired by lucid dreaming... The assignment must be in two different subjects and music/danish (danish in Denmark = litterature and visual arts) could have been nice...

[VirtualReality]

I think it is a possible interpretation though I haven't read it or seen it lately, so I'm not sure about everything... And it is always nice with some out-of-the box thinking when interpreting (as long as it is rational of course)

[Sotik]

I have to say that music isn't exactly something I wold listen to a lot lol, but it does really seem to be about lucid dreaming. I wonder if putting his hands in his head is his RC?

[VirtualReality]

Well expressionistic music isn't actually music I would listen to either but it is good for analyzing... Guess the same could go for Dreamer. Yeah I think hands on head might be his RC... People have thought the weirdest things about what you can do and what you cannot do in a dream. I heard once, for example, that a psychoanalytic thought that you could never say your name in a lucid dream (and it IS an old song )

[Baron Samedi]

Interesting. I just told someone that yesterday. "Flying in dreams is like flying in Peter Pan. You just have to believe!" Alice in Wonderland is obviously about dreaming and drugs. I think Peter Pan is definitely about dreaming, as are many other fantasy stories where people go into another world, and come back to this one only to find out nothing has changed. Lucid dreaming though? mmm. not so much.