Comments on: Dystopian Dreaming https://bulkeley.org/dystopian-dreaming/ Dream Research & Education Tue, 11 Sep 2012 04:41:50 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Dolores J. Nurss https://bulkeley.org/dystopian-dreaming/#comment-383 Tue, 11 Sep 2012 04:41:50 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=2212#comment-383 I should also mention that I once talked to a crazy guy who claimed that the government was already using technology like this, blocking people’s dreams and replacing them with hypnotic commands. The kicker was that he also claimed that the same agency defused those who found out by driving them crazy and/or to addictions.

]]> By: Dolores J. Nurss https://bulkeley.org/dystopian-dreaming/#comment-382 Tue, 11 Sep 2012 04:34:17 +0000 http://bulkeley.org/?p=2212#comment-382 Trapping people in nightmares certainly has a long history in science fiction and fantasy books, movies, and television. Just off the top of my head it has come up in Star Trek (several varieties) Chronicles of Narnia (briefly) the Freddy Kruger movies, Heroes, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

You might also like “The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever”, a trilogy by Stephen R. Donaldson. A man fights to resist believing in the demands of people in his lucid dreams, who insist that he alone can save their world. If he does believe, then what he’d rather think of as a wet dream will turn out to be rape, and he will have to live with that unbearable truth. But if he does not believe, the world that he refuses to save might well turn out to be his own life. Do his actions in lucid dreams have consequences or not?

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