Thread: Lucid Dreaming Fiction/Films?

Vanilla Sky, Inception, for films

For books, The Chronicles of Amber, it's actually not at all about lucid dreaming, but it's very lucid-dream like and my favorite book series of all time. Its world is a reality inside a reality inside a reality that the princes of Amber can manipulate and control much as if it were a dream, and they treat it as if it were a dream.

How to put simply that which is not a simple thing . . . ?
Solipsism, I suppose, is where we have to begin—the
notion that nothing exists but the self, or, at least, that
we cannot truly be aware of anything but our own
existence and experience. I can find, somewhere, off in
Shadow, anything I can visualize. Any of us can. This, in
good faith, does not transcend the limits of the ego. It
may be argued, and in fact has, by most of us, that we
create the shadows we visit out of the stuff of our own
psyches, that we alone truly exist, that the shadows we
traverse are but projections of our own desires. . . .
Whatever the merits of this argument, and there are
several, it does go far toward explaining much of the
family’s attitude toward people, places, and things
outside of Amber. Namely, we are toymakers and they,
our playthings—sometimes dangerously animated, to be
sure; but this, too, is part of the game. We are
impresarios by temperament, and we treat one another
accordingly. While solipsism does tend to leave one
slightly embarrassed on questions of etiology, one can
easily avoid the embarrassment by refusing to admit the
validity of the questions. Most of us are, as I have often
observed, almost entirely pragmatic in the conduct of
our affairs. Almost . . .
Yet—yet there is a disturbing element in the picture.
There is a place where the shadows go mad. . . . When
you purposely push yourself through layer after layer of
Shadow, surrendering—again, purposely—a piece of
your understanding every step of the way, you come at
last to a mad place beyond which you cannot go. Why
do this? In hope of an insight. I’d say, or a new game . .
. But when you come to this place, as we all have, you
realize that you have reached the limit of Shadow or the
end of yourself—synonymous terms, as we had always
thought. Now, though . . .

Wow! Amazing guys . Thank you all. I can't wait to start reading your fiction book recommendations and films as well.

Originally Posted by Whatsnext

Vanilla Sky, Inception, for films

For books, The Chronicles of Amber, it's actually not at all about lucid dreaming, but it's very lucid-dream like and my favorite book series of all time. Its world is a reality inside a reality inside a reality that the princes of Amber can manipulate and control much as if it were a dream, and they treat it as if it were a dream.

Is this the series you speak of? The Great Book of Amber: The Complete Amber Chronicles, 1-10 (Chronicles of Amber): Roger Zelazny

Please, do not post links to merchandise. Just a title of a book is enough, people will find it without a link. Thank you.

Originally Posted by strangedream

Is this the series you speak of? Great Book of Amber: The Complete Amber Chronicles, 1-10 (Chronicles of Amber): Roger Zelazny

That's the one!

^^ And, I personally always felt the Amber books (especially the first three) were about lucid dreaming, in that Amber was waking life, and the shadows were all dreams. I suppose Plato aficionados would think differently, but Corwin's adventures sure seemed like LD's to me...

Originally Posted by Sageous

^^ And, I personally always felt the Amber books (especially the first three) were about lucid dreaming, in that Amber was waking life, and the shadows were all dreams. I suppose Plato aficionados would think differently, but Corwin's adventures sure seemed like LD's to me...

Then you get to the "true Amber" bit and it's like, mind = blown, lol.