A Dream That Was Like A Movie

[happyfilmluvguy]

Have you ever had a dream that seemed like a movie? It had characters, it had scenes, it had a story. You might have been one of the characters, or you weren't in the movie at all. I have had a few dreams that I wrote down after waking up that seems so much like a movie. I've known a few people who have had movie dreams, as well. How about yourself?

 

[Rosie]

I have movie and television show dreams very often. Down to when that particular dream is over, I have seen credits rolling . Sometimes, I'm a character (are someome who I KNOW is me even though physically it isn't me), or sometimes its as though I am actually watching the movie and the dream is the movie itself, (make sense?). Whenever I mentioned it to people I've known, they've never mentioned that they too have had "movie" dreams.

In fact, I just had one a few days ago, that one was a tv show dream though. How do I know the difference? My television dreams are smaller screened and much less dramatic. [huh]

 

[Quigley Brown]

I used to write mine down, but when reading it later I'd realize that they didn't make any sense at all...no plot or anything. Just complete randomness. Very, very rarely were there anyone I knew in them. Probably the closest to telling a story was a reoccuring one back when I lived in the midwest where I'd see a tornado, but my camera would always jam up.:rage:

 

[Twitch]

Yeah, I'm a hell of a director in my sleep!lol

 

[Rosie]

I used to write mine down, but when reading it later I'd realize that they didn't make any sense at all...no plot or anything. Just complete randomness. Very, very rarely were there anyone I knew in them. Probably the closest to telling a story was a reoccuring one back when I lived in the midwest where I'd see a tornado, but my camera would always jam up.:rage:

fftopic:
If I may interject. Dreams aren't random. Even if we do not understand them at the time, dreams are an open door to our subconcisous, to our past, present and future.

What may seem like randomness at the time may actually be a complex or sometimes extremely simple glimpse into our lives.

Spiritual consultation over.

 

[GeniusInTheLamp]

I've had dreams about television, but it wasn't until recently that I remembered having an actual movie reference in a dream. Hold on to your seats, it's going to be a bumpy ride.

In the dream, I was working as a television reporter during a time in the future when mutant zombies were taking over the world. The zombies were shown pushing Nelson's Column (among other things) through the streets of London. The radio stations played nothing but news and italodisco. At one point, I was recruited to help fight the zombies. One of the weapons they gave me was the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch. (It's effective against rabbits; the dream ended before I could test its effect on zombies.)

 

[HadleyH]

Probably the closest to telling a story was a reoccuring one back when I lived in the midwest where I'd see a tornado, but my camera would always jam up.:rage:

He-he

 

[Maj.Nick Danger]

Yes. If dreams were directed by Federico Fellini.

 

[jamespowers]

Ok, I have had a few of these. I've even wondered if I could make a few bucks on them.
One was sci-fi detective. Even after probably 20 years I can still remember the plot. Of course I was the head detective with a friend of mine as my sidekick. Kind of like Sam Spade before his partner ended up dead. We investigated the paranormal set in the 40s. One scene had us going to a house in the middle of nowhere driving a '38 business coupe of some kind. It looked deserted. The car didn't run very well. We stopped and wondered who could have called us there. :eusa_doh: Well, we flipped a coin for who would go up to the porch to ring the bell. I won. whee!
I go up to the door to knock and dishy dme answers the door saying that she was glad to see me etc. There are several plot twists and turns from there and to put it succintly, I didn't get the girl in the end. I couldn't really. She only looked alive. :eusa_doh:

Regards,

J

 

[happyfilmluvguy]

Yes. If dreams were directed by Federico Fellini.

There was a cartoon based on a movie, but I can't remember the name of the show. It was on the Disney Channel. It was about a particular part of your body that lived inside of a boy's body. There was a whole world inside the boy's body. Not aliens. Just bactera and white blood cells, red blood cells, things you'd find in your body. Anyways, the way they described the boy's dreams was in fact they were movies, and these organsims could audition to be in the boy's dreams. They were movies in this perpective.

 

[Lady Day]

Most of my dreams have credits

LD

 

[Maj.Nick Danger]

There was a cartoon based on a movie, but I can't remember the name of the show. It was on the Disney Channel. It was about a particular part of your body that lived inside of a boy's body. There was a whole world inside the boy's body. Not aliens. Just bactera and white blood cells, red blood cells, things you'd find in your body. Anyways, the way they described the boy's dreams was in fact they were movies, and these organsims could audition to be in the boy's dreams. They were movies in this perpective.

Wow,...sounds like a Fellini film to me. lol Lots of dream imagery was utilized by cartoon makers with hilarious results.

 

[Twitch]

As Rosie says dreams are linked to waking experiences or thoughts. About everything you dream can be traced to a conversation or event when awake. If you reminise about your grandmother for a few minutes you'll probably see her in a dream.

 

[Trampilot]

Recently I had one of my cinematic dreams. I woke up twice during it and returned to it when I fell back asleep.

A woman moves into a new house on a housing estate. It feels like America - some suburb somewhere. She notices a neighbour across the street staring at her all the time (I also recall 3 children spying on the spying neighbour at the same time but don't know the significance). One day - maybe night - the woman hears her front door being unlocked. In comes a woman. They argue how she is got in, why etc. The entering woman has a set of keys and says she also owns the house and has papers to prove it. The papers are in her handbag (how convenient!). The woman dismisses them as they don't appear to be stamped or signed by anyone. Eventually she makes the other woman leave and phones her husband about it. He acts a little coy about it - he's away on business. They argue a bit but he says he'll sort it out when he arrives in a couple of days.

Over the next few "scenes" the woman notices the neighbour watching and following her. She also notices things being moved and go missing and getting added to the house. She suspects the other woman.

A bit fuzzy now. The woman gets kidnapped and taken by the neighbour. The neighbour is in cahoots with the other woman. They appear to do this in order to collect houses and belongings - a little bit urban Hills Have Eyes / Texas Chainsaw Massacre. The kidnappers torture the woman and make her into a imprisoned servant.

The husband arrives and he finds his house broken in and looted. He has no idea what has gone on. The police won't help. A bit fuzzy now but her finds out where his wife is and tries to rescue her. However he gets captured and treated the same. More lovely torture scenes - they were very very gruesome - involving finger nails and wedges!

The kidnapping family don't use their external doors as their house has been boarded up - leaving you to surmise they are aggressive squatters.

The husband and wife become imprisoned servants. For weeks and weeks they become more and more subservient. The wife has almost deteriorated to the point of insanity and believes this is her new life. Her relationship with her husband breaks down more and more.

One day the kidnappers troublesome son enters through a window. The husband is sitting on the stairs cleaning with his wife. He sits and stairs at the open window. For 5 minutes he stares. Eventually he makes his move and climbs through. Then he just runs and runs and runs. He runs deep into the city without thinking about his wife.

He steals a car to get away and is eventually picked up by the police. And that is kind of it. Completely bizarre and very exciting.

As a film I liked the way the husband gives up completely on his wife without giving her a second thought. The bad guys don't lose too or even get close to getting caught.

Is the couch free? I need a session ...

PS. I should at, at no point was I in the dream. My role was solely as viewer/director.