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I was moved.

Posted by Kiru Banzai | August 16, 2007 10:31 AM
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Wow, your writing has improved a thousand-fold since you wrote that review. Good on ya, and I'm glad you've changed your mind about dreams. Dreams are a wonderful source of peak experiences available to everyone, and it seems a shame to dismiss them as useless.

Posted by NaFun | August 16, 2007 10:35 AM
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It is always astonishing to come across old friends that no longer exist in my dreams. I always feel very lucky to have had the chance to see them again.

Posted by kid icarus | August 16, 2007 10:37 AM
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I loved that review, but I love this even more.

Posted by David | August 16, 2007 10:45 AM
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Lovely sentimentality to lighten my mood, thanks! As for your old stance on dreams/surrealism, I totally disagreed at the time I read that review. I'm willing to take the stupid dreams where I'm trying to find a clean bathroom for hours in exchange for the cool ones where I get to have lesbian makeouts with Winona Ryder and kill monsters with bitchin' kung fu. Even the dull dreams where I'm wandering aimlessly through environments of incredible detail oddly stitched together form the stuff of waking life, these things refresh my brain. Surrealism and dreams can both suck sometimes, but when they win, there's nothing better.

Posted by christopher | August 16, 2007 10:52 AM
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I dont dream much any more. Anyone that doesn't like dreaming should try living without dreams.

And I mean dream in the literal sense, not they desire for a better and more awesome life.

Posted by Bellevue Ave | August 16, 2007 10:57 AM
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Bellevue- You're probably just not remembering your dreams. The wall of forgetfulness that separates dreams from life is an interesting thing. I think it becomes more powerful when you have a day job that forces you to go from unconscious to fully functioning in rapid succession. If you get a chance to live like a total slouch for a while, just lay in bed when you wake up and focus on your dreams for a while. After a few weeks of that, you'll remember your dreams more easily.
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Posted by christopher | August 16, 2007 11:02 AM
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Isn't that the very strangest thing, Charles? Except I always get caught with awareness of the past in the dream (so I am made to feel foolish for having believed that they were dead) and then face the horrible disappointment of waking.

Posted by Grant Cogswell | August 16, 2007 11:56 AM
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Well, the beauty of the devices from Strange Days was that you could experience ANYONE'S memories, not just your own. Just because the main character was reliving the happier past of his own life (something people do just fine without technology...), doesn't mean this was all there was to it.

Posted by supergp | August 16, 2007 12:13 PM
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I find other people's dreams to be unbelievably boring, which I guess explains why I can't stand Buñuel.

Posted by keshmeshi | August 16, 2007 1:57 PM
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There is a tendency of people who have a positive relationship with their subconscious mind to lose perspective about dreams the same way parents lose perspective about their kids. Some stories from dreams and child-rearing can be interesting to other people; most are not, because the only significance they have is personal.
I say don't let the boring dream stories you've heard put you off the interesting ones. Blue Velvet is a dream most people agree is worth stepping into. Check stuff out.
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Posted by christopher | August 16, 2007 3:50 PM
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for year's after a close friend's suicide, i would see him in my dreams and feel overwhelmed with joy to have him close to me again. it made waking up a kind of excruciating punishment, as though each time he visited me in a dream, he was killing himself all over again.

meanwhile, the dreams where i am a member of the Monkees keep on coming, so i guess it's an even trade off.

Posted by Scotto | August 17, 2007 12:23 AM

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