examples of lucid dreaming in common literature

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08-03-2011, 04:56 AM
hpnfreak

examples of lucid dreaming in common literature

I say "Alice in Wonderland" is a parable on LD

you say?

it can be a movie too
08-03-2011, 05:57 AM
Heart

I can see where you come to that conclusion. Alice had those dreams which we find out are actually fragments from a distant memory. I like how they made the new one feel more like a dream. :)
08-03-2011, 06:02 AM
nqwDE

American Dad episode where steve uses a dream sign.
08-03-2011, 08:06 AM
DeeryTheDeer

Didn't the author of Alice In Wonderland say that his book was based on a lucid dream he had?
08-03-2011, 04:03 PM
Mancon

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Originally Posted by DeeryTheDeer

Didn't the author of Alice In Wonderland say that his book was based on a lucid dream he had?

I saw that in this video: (skip towards the end)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llw717IARpQ
08-03-2011, 04:53 PM
Siиdяed

I'm not sure how to take 'common' literature.
08-03-2011, 05:23 PM
hpnfreak

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Originally Posted by DeeryTheDeer

Didn't the author of Alice In Wonderland say that his book was based on a lucid dream he had?

well I hate to spoil the party, but I found something on that

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Originally Posted by wikipedia.org

Most of the book's adventures may have been based on and influenced by people, situations and buildings in Oxford and at Christ Church, e.g., the "Rabbit Hole," which symbolized the actual stairs in the back of the main hall in Christ Church. A carving of a griffon and rabbit, as seen in Ripon Cathedral, where Carroll's father was a canon, may have provided inspiration for the tale.

Since Carroll was a mathematician at Christ Church, it has been suggested[19][20] that there are many references and mathematical concepts in both this story and also in Through the Looking-Glass

Mathematician Keith Devlin asserted in the journal of The Mathematical Association of America that Dodgson wrote Alice in Wonderland in its final form as a scathing satire on new modern mathematics that were emerging in the mid-19th century.

The hidden math behind Alice in Wonderland

it doesn`t mention anywhere that it was a lucid dream per se :eek:

my impression is, that because he was a maths teacher in victorian England, if he would have mentioned that he could dream up such stuff, I think he would have ended up in a nuthouse :D

so he said that it was a figment of his imagination ... which is partially true in this case
08-03-2011, 05:24 PM
hpnfreak

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Originally Posted by Siиdяed

I'm not sure how to take 'common' literature.

take it easy baby

take it as it comes

don`t move to fast

...

the rest you`ll find it in a Doors song :D
08-03-2011, 05:55 PM
StonedApe

Isn't Alice in Wonderland just a regular dream not a lucid? I don't remember the part where Alice realizes it's a dream and turns the queen into a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and escapes.

There really isn't much fiction about LDing, which is kind of disappointing. I haven't been able to get my hands on any.

I'm googling this and I found a novel called Dreamside which is about LDing. Might try to pick that up, but I've been reading mostly non-fiction lately.
08-03-2011, 06:54 PM
hpnfreak

well Alice doesn`t know she can do such a thing

but doesn`t she kick some butt in the end by growing large and such things?
08-07-2011, 12:57 AM
Caliban

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Originally Posted by Siиdяed

I'm not sure how to take 'common' literature.

All literature is commen Sindred. Remember. Locus communis.
08-07-2011, 01:02 AM
Solarflare

Theres an episode of spongebob where he shared dreams with all of his friends lucidly.
08-07-2011, 07:24 AM
hpnfreak

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Originally Posted by Solarflare

Theres an episode of spongebob where he shared dreams with all of his friends lucidly.

if they show cartoons like this to children, most of them will become mental patients :D

http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__...ppingballs.gif
08-07-2011, 08:35 PM
SpaceCowboyDave

There was an episode of Star Trek Voyager, that was about LDing.

Waking Moments - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
08-07-2011, 08:42 PM
Solarflare

http://images.sodahead.com/polls/000...ll_xlarge.jpeg
08-07-2011, 09:15 PM
hpnfreak

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Originally Posted by Solarflare

http://images.sodahead.com/polls/000...ll_xlarge.jpeg

did this guy take some magic pills?
08-08-2011, 03:10 AM
Solarflare

http://i1119.photobucket.com/albums/.../squidward.jpg
08-10-2011, 11:29 AM
StonedApe

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Originally Posted by dave1701

There was an episode of Star Trek Voyager, that was about LDing.

Waking Moments - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Too bad it isn't an episode of the original series, that's the only one I like, just because it's so ridiculous and funny. But I still might have to watch that if I can find it since it's about LDing.