Thread: LD in Mainstream Media

Has anyone seen the bonus disk to Inception? It's very good, Stephen LaBerge is interviewed in it along with many others.

Can someone explain to me how dragon age origins is about lucid dreaming?

Long time i didn't update this thread, let's ressurect it xD.

Don't see very well the relation between peter pan and lucid dream. From what i remember they didn't have to sleep to get to neverland. They went there flying.

Updated List:

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List made out of everyone's contribution so far:


Art:

- Painting "The Nightmare" by Henry Fuseli


Book:

- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
- "The Wheel of Time" series written by Robert Jordan


Movies:

- A Nightmare on Elm Street
- Alice in Wonderland by Disney
- Dreamscape
- Inception
- Ink
- Mirror Mask
- Open Your Eyes
- Paprika
- The Good Night
- The Matrix
- The Science of Sleep
- Vanilla Sky
- Waking Life
- What Dreams May Come


Music:

- Lucid Dreams by Franz Ferdinand


TV:

- Episode 62 "Shadow Play" from the "Twilight Zone" Series
- Episode 5 "The Dream Masters" from the 3rd Season of Sliders
- Episode 2 "Spontaneous Combustion" from the 3rd Season of South Park
- Episode 14 "Sand Francisco Dreamin'" from the 5th Season of Charmed
- Episode 13 "Waking Moments" from the 4th Season of Star Trek
- Star Trek


Video-Games:

- Dragon Age: Origins
- Lucidity
- Psychonauts
- Yume Nikky

Originally Posted by Bboy500

Can someone explain to me how dragon age origins is about lucid dreaming?

There is a part of the game where you enter a dream world. I played it long ago so i don't remember all the details but here is the walkthrough for that area: Walkthrough for Lost in Dreams at DAO

There you can even change yourself to be like a mouse or other things inside that dream world.

The song My Enemy by Super8 & Tab feat. Julie Thompson. I've heard other references in some other songs, but either never found out the title, or just forgot it xP

Dreams
Beneath the surface there’s a world that no one sees
A hideaway where I’ve got everything I need

eternal sunshine of the spotless mind has some lucid dream type stuff in it. but it isn't about lucid dreaming at all. if alice in wonderland is on the list I think this should be as well.

Season 5 episode 15 of American Dad

The recent Psych Christmas Special heavily featured lucid dreaming - about half of the episode was a lucid dream! Although they don't mention it by name, lucid dreaming was the theme of the episode. It even gets into Dream Guides and stuff like that.

Originally Posted by MichalZitek

The movie "Ink" takes place in a dream world. It's a really good movie, I highly reccommend it. Please, check the trailers (here and here) and let me know what you think about it ;].

That movie Ink looks incredible.. The cinematography, the plot, everything about it.

Lucid dreaming in Cracked.

Originally Posted by Oneironaut

Lucid dreaming in Cracked.

I vaguely remember that website but don't think I've read one of its articles before, but that was hilarious. Much of it was true or not far from the truth, or sometimes just ougrageous, making it funny.

The best part to me was the ending explaining the reason spinning helps increase lucidity:

"After having your true desires suppressed by our patriarchal society for so long, and being forced to conform to cruel societal expectations, your new-found ability to freely spin around will overwhelm any other intrusive brain activity. The pure state of ecstatic joy in your brain will be unconquerable. Research has shown that spinning will prolong lucid dreams for 96% of people. It works best to rub your hands together and spin around at the same time. Finally, there's a use for the very actions that got you beat up in high school!"

Hahaha. Yeah. Cracked is great.