“Don’t you think dreams and the internet are similar? They’re both areas where the repressed conscious mind vents.”
From Paprika (2006).
Posts Tagged → dreams
Memes that are dreams
“Thomas the Plank Engine” is the subreddit where memes are dreams.
Dream players
“Playing video games before bedtime may give people an unusual level of awareness and control in their dreams, LiveScience has learned.[…] Dreams and video games both represent alternate realities, according to Jayne Gackenbach, a psychologist at Grant MacEwan University in Canada. But she pointed out that dreams arise biologically from the human mind, while video games are technologically driven by computers and gaming consoles.
“If you’re spending hours a day in a virtual reality, if nothing else it’s practice,” said Jayne Gackenbach, a psychologist at Grant MacEwan University in Canada. “Gamers are used to controlling their game environments, so that can translate into dreams.”
LSD: Dream Emulator
“LSD (Also known as LSD: Dream Emulator) is a semi-rare video game released in Japan in 1998 for the Sony PlayStationvideo game console based on a dream journal that Hiroko Nishikawa, a staff member at Asmik Ace Entertainment, had been keeping for a decade.”
Capolinea
E’ veramente ora che me ne vada in vacanza. Stanotte ho sognato che ero al cinema e mentre vedevo un film con i sottotitoli mi sfuggiva completamente il senso di un dialogo. Beh, sapete cosa ho fatto? Ho tirato fuori un telecomando e ho mandato indietro la sequenza. Ma non spingendo REW, CLICCANDO sul pulsante BACK del browser…