tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18259946.post115196018730308714..comments2023-05-01T02:17:40.032-07:00Comments on Dwell On It: DreamscapesTateru Ninohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14511461929629749578noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18259946.post-1152001063599029462006-07-04T01:17:00.000-07:002006-07-04T01:17:00.000-07:00An even better question is: Why haven't you alread...An even better question is: Why haven't you already tried it, in Second Life?<BR/><BR/>When the Jennifer Lopez science fiction movie 'The Cell' came out, I went to see it, intrigued by both the art design and the premise: to explore a serial killer's mind by entering his dreams. <BR/><BR/>However, I walked out of the theater about halfway into the movie, because the killer's dreaming environments were eerily similar to many of my own (minus the more obvious violent overtones). The decor, the lighting, the ambient sounds... all hauntingly familiar to me. To see my oneiroscape portrayed so superbly onscreen was more than I'd been prepared to witness, and I left the theater.<BR/><BR/>I have since been able to watch the movie in its entirety, and enjoyed it for what I was able to take from it. The impact of the original viewing has never left me, however, and has made me wary of writing about my dreams ever since.<BR/><BR/>I offer this insight to you as... not a warning, though you might take it so, but as a message in a bottle, from the shores of another's island. Those dreams we inhabit are, indeed, real places and times, and we place them in the Waking World only with sober responsibility. We never know whose life we might touch with our images and thoughts, and with what strength. Let us proceed with full awareness.Keoni Chavezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17880995865243369396noreply@blogger.com