8 1/2 dream

The opening sequence from Fellinis masterpiece 8 1/2 is a dream

Oneironaut

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Etymology

From oneiro- (from Ancient Greek ὄνειρος (“dream”)) + -naut (forms nouns meaning a voyager or traveller).


Noun

oneironaut (plural oneironauts)

1. A person who explores dream worlds, usually associated with lucid dreaming.

Inception

I watched Inception last night.

A bit overdue for a dreamer like myself, but still. I never was a fan of Leonardo di Crapio and seeing Inception didn´t change that. I think it was a quite good action movie though. It had a few good takes on dreaming in general and lucid dreaming in particular, but on the whole, too much action and too few dreamtwists for my taste.

I choose the still from the movie as an illustration purely because of the room number. I don´t know if you know, but there is a swedish movie from way back in 1964 called "491". It was an adaption of a book by Lars Görling, directed by Vilgot Sjöman and feautered, among other outrageous things, the actress Lena Nyman being raped by a dog. A very controversial movie for it´s time, as you can imagine. The title comes from the Bible; Petrus asks Jesus "Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Till seven times?" and Jesus´s answer is "I say not unto thee, Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven."
Ok, so how much is seventy times seven? Alas: it´s 490. So if you choose to read it litteraly, sin number 491 is the one that you don´t have to forgive..!
I always liked that title a lot, and now the number pops up, as a hotel room number, in a dreamrelated movie from Hollywood. Coincidense? Yes, probably! But all the same...

Dream by Salvador Dalí in Spellbound (1945)

stop-motion dreaming

The Comb - a dreamy stop-motion by the Quay brothers.

om du är i Oslo på söndag / if you´re in Oslo coming sunday

House MD

Såg ett avsnitt av House i går som går rätt in här på nattduksbordet. Resumé (som blir ganska eländig eftersom jag missade början): House hade delvis minnesförlust efter en bussolycka. Han vet att någon - han minns inte vem - är svårt skadad men försvunnen. Men det som är intressant i vårt sammanhang är att House, med sitt undermedvetnas hjälp, letar sig fram till svaret på gåtan. Dels blir han hypnotiserad, dels drömmer han (lucida drömmar!) och dels använder han droger (inte helt oväntat när det gäller den gode doktorn...) för att framkalla hallucinationer. Den kanske intressantaste delen av avsnittet är när House drömmer/hallucinerar att hans chef Cuddy utför en pole dance/strip tease samtidigt som hon disskuterar sjukdomssymptom och verbalt leder honom mot gåtans lösning. Avsnittet i fråga heter "House´s Head", är episod 15 i säsong 4, och hänger ihop med episod 16, "Wilson´s Heart", som jag ännu inte sett...

I saw an episode of House yesterday that fits right here on the nightstand. Resumé (I missed the beginning): House has partly amnesia after a bus crash. He knows that someone - he does not remember who - is seriously injured, but has disappeared. But what is interesting in our context is that the House, with the help of his subconscious, is looking for to the answer to the riddle. He gets hypnotized, he dreams (lucid dreams!) and he uses drugs (not surprisingly with the Good Doctor...) to induce hallucinations. Perhaps the most interesting part of the episode is when House is dreaming / hallucinating that his boss Cuddy, is performing a pole dance / strip tease, while she discusses symptoms and verbaly leads him to the solution of the riddle. The episode in question is called "House's Head", it is episode 15 of season 4, and is associated with episode 16, "Wilson's Heart", which I have not seen ...