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jyrraeth August 19 2010, 18:52:10 UTC
I agree with the points you made about the movie, I just saw it yesterday.

I'm glad they kept a strong storyline instead of playing up the special effects that a dream world would provide. Although, I wish they messed around a little bit more, with little minor background details, like changing the license plate on the vehicles during the same scene.

I thought that once the subconscious projections realized it was a dream and started attacking, there was no point in keeping the environment all that realistic, anyways. But that might be my inner 8 year old wanting an action scene with trees/walls/whatever attacking people.

I haven't experimented too much with lucid dreaming (especially since I get the longest, and most involved ones when I'm sick with the flu) but it's quite fun. I usually have the dreams where I'm constrained by the physics of that dream, kind of like a messed up video game. The more detailed and vivid the dream is, the less my character is me. Enough that I've named the not-me character I play "Elise" and recognize her as a recurring character. She doesn't always take me for a ride, but she's around often enough.

Also, #2 in your list of experiments is what happens to me whenever I try to nap. Then I wake up later and still feel tired because my brain didn't shut down completely. :(

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