{"id":297,"date":"2010-07-20T23:45:46","date_gmt":"2010-07-21T03:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ngc2632.com\/blog\/?p=297"},"modified":"2010-07-20T23:45:46","modified_gmt":"2010-07-21T03:45:46","slug":"a-wake-for-a-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/xal.li\/eri\/reviews\/a-wake-for-a-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"A Wake for a Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ya&#8217;ll let me know when you&#8217;ve seen &#8220;Inception&#8221; so we can discuss it in detail.<\/p>\n<p>In the meanwhile, if you&#8217;ve found that you like discussions of how to know whether what you&#8217;re experiencing is real and whether it actually matters if it&#8217;s real or not, feel free to also watch &#8220;The Matrix&#8221;, &#8220;What Dreams May Come&#8221;, &#8220;Existenz&#8221;, &#8220;Naked Lunch&#8221;, and\/or read Jeff Noon&#8217;s novel <em>Vurt<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s by no means a comprehensive list, but those oeuvres stand out in my memory, for some reason.<\/p>\n<p>Without raising any spoilers, I can say the following:<\/p>\n<p>1) &#8220;Inception&#8221; is beautiful and you should go see it. DiCaprio&#8217;s acting couldn&#8217;t ruin this movie, visually stunning as it is and filled with other actors that deserved all the moments in the spotlight they got.<\/p>\n<p>2) It&#8217;s really not as hard as all that to hack someone&#8217;s head. I&#8217;d do it for a living if I could get a steady list of clientele.<\/p>\n<p>3) Dreams are quite a bit more flexible than the movie presents. If the director had cut 90% of the parts explaining the rigid physics  of dreams, it would have been easier to swallow. Also, dream logic could have been exploited a bit more thoroughly &#8212; though possibly at the expense of turning out a linear, orderly, multilayer story.<\/p>\n<p>Also, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lucid_dream\">lucid dreaming<\/a><\/strong> is fun. I recommend it for everyone.<\/p>\n<p>[*]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ya&#8217;ll let me know when you&#8217;ve seen &#8220;Inception&#8221; so we can discuss it in detail. In the meanwhile, if you&#8217;ve found that you like discussions of how to know whether what you&#8217;re experiencing is real and whether it actually matters if it&#8217;s real or not, feel free to also watch &#8220;The Matrix&#8221;, &#8220;What Dreams May [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1rL5j-4N","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/xal.li\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/xal.li\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/xal.li\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/xal.li\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/xal.li\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/xal.li\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/xal.li\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/xal.li\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/xal.li\/eri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}