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By Ben, on July 26th, 2010%
 SO I’m thrilled to say I saw INCEPTION tonight for my 30th birthday at IMAX.
Verdict?
It was pretty awesome.
In fact, I’d say this is the best film that’s come along that is specifically about dreams and the architecture of the dreaming mind since Vanilla Sky was released in 2001.
Instead of a movie review, I just want to bring up some points of the film that intrigue me. If you’ve not seen the movie, I don’t know if you will want to read any further!
…still with me?
OK, here we go!
1) The use of dreams signs.
Sort of.
But if you’ve seen the film and you’re . . . → Read More: The Inception Movie & Dreams: 5 Things I Really Liked About This Film
By Ben, on July 12th, 2010%
 Art by Ben | Copyright 2010 | Dreaming Life
Lots of people have their personal nightmare; you know, the one that re-occurs overs the years, the one that horrifies them to the core, even if sometimes it doesn’t seem very scary when talking about it.
Mine is something most people are familiar with: the 1970′s horror film, The Exorcist.
When I was 10 years old I saw The Exorcist. It was on TV and I watched it with my brothers. Not wanting to look weak in front of them, I acted brave; oh no, this movie doesn’t scare me!
The truth is, it scared . . . → Read More: Dream #8: The Exorcist
By Ben, on March 16th, 2009%
I just found out that Bouncing Bear Botanicals is producing a neat looking film/documentary on psychedelics called Manifesting the Mind.
Below is a preview of the clip, featuring notable figures such as Dr. Rick Strassman, author of the brilliant book DMT: The Spirit Molecule, the infamous Terrence McKenna, and my favorite psychedelic writer and 2012 speculator, Daniel Pinchbeck.
This film is actually just the first of 3 films (!) in a series that will address different aspects shamanism. The offical description states that:
This first film, Manifesting the Mind, is a broad look at psychedelics in general. Why are psychedelics so brutally suppressed in . . . → Read More: Manifesting the Mind – film trailer
By Ben, on August 6th, 2008%
Er, I meant to post this last month – it’s pretty neat, check it out:
Alive Mind Media is releasing 3 films this summer, dubbing the release “The Trippy Trilogy – Alive Mind’s Altered Consciousness Collection”.
Flicker
DVD release Date: July 15
Documentary on the 1961 invention of Brion Gysin’s “Dreammachine”, described as “a hypnotic light device with the power to induce hallucinations.” (Is this a precursor to the Sound and Light Machine?)
Hofmann’s Potion
DVD release Date: June 15
Documentary on LSD featuring Albert Hofmann, Timonthy Leary, Aldous Huxley, Ram Dass, Ralph Metzner Stanisav Grof, and more.
Preview:
Hofmann’s Potion – 9 Minute Preview
Hippie Masala
DVD Release Date: August 8, . . . → Read More: LSD, the Dreammachine, and Aging Hippies in India : 3 New Documentaries from Alive Media Coming Out This Summer
By Ben, on November 10th, 2007%
In keeping with this weeks earlier posts on movies, I decided to list all the good dream and lucid dream themed films out there!
If you are interested in dreams, I think you’ll find these movies worth watching.
Let me know what you think!
You might notice some of these movies bleed into other mind-related themes. My study of dreams naturally leads to a fascination with consciousness and states of mind, and so my movie list naturally reflects that in as much as it ties back into my fascination with dreams.
1. Vanilla Sky (2001)
– The most popular movie to introduce . . . → Read More: The Top 8 Movies on Dreams, Lucid Dreaming, and Assorted Mind-Weirdness
By Ben, on September 6th, 2007%
Please tell us about you film Entheogen: Awakening the Divine Within. What’s it about and why did you decide to make it?
The film Entheo:genesis is about discovering the ways in which we participate with the dance and flow of life— and how to maintain that flow. The film also gives us context from our history— from the evolution from indigenous tribes through shamanism through world religions throughout the course of history. Also how our civilization has participated with meaning, inspiration, and the grand metaphysical questions. We end the film with a contemporary perspective of the post-modern . . . → Read More: Entheogen – Awakening the Divine Within – An Interview with Director Rod Mann
By Ben, on September 4th, 2007%
Below is a 9 minute trailer video for the film ENTHEOGEN: Awakening the Divine Within.
I’ll be posting an interview with director Rod Mann later this week!
Official description:
“Entheogen: Awakening the Divine Within is a feature length documentary which invites the viewer to rediscover an enchanted cosmos in the modern world by awakening to the divine within.
The film examines the re-emergence of archaic techniques of ecstacy in the modern world by weaving a synthesis of ecological and evolutionary awareness,electronic dance culture, and the current pharmacological re-evaluation of entheogenic compounds. Within a narrative framework that imagines consciousness itself to be evolving, Entheogen documents the . . . → Read More: Trailer for Entheogen : Awakening the Divine Within (interview later this week!)
By Ben, on July 26th, 2007%
Will virtual reality mean the death of lucid dreaming?
Recently I saw the movie eXistenZ by David Cronenburg. It’s about a fully-encompassing virtual reality game, where of course, something screwy happens and you begin to question what’s real and what’s not.
To play, you have to surgically install a “bio-port” at the base of the spine that the game plugs into. Conceivably, the game interacts with the brain via the nervous system via the spine. Users then “plug in” and are transported into full-scale virtual world in which they can interact with others and the environment, just like they would in the real . . . → Read More: The Death of Lucid Dreaming
By Ben, on May 15th, 2007%
Watching films like Lost Highway and Mulholland Drive is like entering into someone else’s dream.
Just like a dream, every scene carries an intangible sense of meaning to it while it is happening. Yet once it’s over there’s a disconnect to what was before and what is next; how this leads to that, how this scene connects to the one before it, and the one after.
And in this way David Lynch pieces together his films like a dream.
Dreams sequences often do not logically follow any order or consistency. Yet while they are happening, everything makes perfect sense.
No one questions the illogical . . . → Read More: Dreams, Film, and David Lynch
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