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Jun. 5th, 2016 04:59 pmToday shopping was cancelled because I'd had very little sleep and have a stupid grumbly earache. Which beats having a horrible stabby earache or an injury but is inferior to most other situations.
Also my dreams were just nasty and stupid, not adventures, just potentially real situations that would be awful. Well, potentially real apart from the walking on water section, which dream me had to do to prove to others that the bad things had happened, so that was not fun. Grump making dreams the lot of them.
So I watched Inception.
Inception is very pretty for what it is, but it's so relentlessly mundane, it puzzles me greatly. Don't dreams always have gravity optional sections? Do other people really wake up when they get killed in a dream, rather than calling the lightning or the fire to heal themselves, or wandering around as a ghost? Where were all the science fiction, fantasy and horror elements? Those dreamscapes looked nothing like dreams, they were so bland.
But it's telling at least two nested stories about changing people's minds through the power of an echoing idea, so, dressing it up too fancy wouldn't help.
Figuring out if he's dreaming at the end is by no means the most interesting part, but he def did inception on himself, with her appropriately named guidance. So then you have to figure out if that's just the movie being clever or the characters. Which is not answerable, which is why it's not very interesting in the end.
Also the spinning top is not appropriate for the use he puts it to. It's not a totem because it was someone else's in the first place so of course it could be that person's dream, and it can never tell you if you're not dreaming, because you're the one who told it to be physics optional in the first place. So he's just being stupid.
But if they can't dream without the chemistry any more then that's substantially more damaging than the answer implied, that dreams are the only place he can see her any more. Dreams are a necessary brain function and without them you wouldn't get stuff like memory consolidation and then you'd just grind to a halt. Probably die. Because messing with brain function is bad.
I don't see why that dozen people dreaming together would be bad though. I mean, if they treat one life as real to the exclusion of the other, that's bad, but really it's 12 people making a life together, but having to go back out to the 3d world to do things like earn money and pay bills. Like a household. But they get many more hours a day together than they would without the chemistry. So that seems like a win win. If and only if they keep it in balance. Even deciding the chems make them wake up into the better life isn't necessarily bad, if they can function both ways.
But then I try and imagine a dozen people I could make a world with, and have just them in that world, for the forseeable future, and that's super difficult. That's way beyond friends. Sooner or later you'd want an escape, but you'd have to sleep anyway, and you'd leave so much behind to do that alone.
More interesting dilemmas in a single setting than the rest of the film.
But then this is all the opinion of someone who very seldom leaves the flat and mostly lives via media consumption. So, you know, pinch of salt, ymmv, etc.
Hope y'all have nicer days.
Also my dreams were just nasty and stupid, not adventures, just potentially real situations that would be awful. Well, potentially real apart from the walking on water section, which dream me had to do to prove to others that the bad things had happened, so that was not fun. Grump making dreams the lot of them.
So I watched Inception.
Inception is very pretty for what it is, but it's so relentlessly mundane, it puzzles me greatly. Don't dreams always have gravity optional sections? Do other people really wake up when they get killed in a dream, rather than calling the lightning or the fire to heal themselves, or wandering around as a ghost? Where were all the science fiction, fantasy and horror elements? Those dreamscapes looked nothing like dreams, they were so bland.
But it's telling at least two nested stories about changing people's minds through the power of an echoing idea, so, dressing it up too fancy wouldn't help.
Figuring out if he's dreaming at the end is by no means the most interesting part, but he def did inception on himself, with her appropriately named guidance. So then you have to figure out if that's just the movie being clever or the characters. Which is not answerable, which is why it's not very interesting in the end.
Also the spinning top is not appropriate for the use he puts it to. It's not a totem because it was someone else's in the first place so of course it could be that person's dream, and it can never tell you if you're not dreaming, because you're the one who told it to be physics optional in the first place. So he's just being stupid.
But if they can't dream without the chemistry any more then that's substantially more damaging than the answer implied, that dreams are the only place he can see her any more. Dreams are a necessary brain function and without them you wouldn't get stuff like memory consolidation and then you'd just grind to a halt. Probably die. Because messing with brain function is bad.
I don't see why that dozen people dreaming together would be bad though. I mean, if they treat one life as real to the exclusion of the other, that's bad, but really it's 12 people making a life together, but having to go back out to the 3d world to do things like earn money and pay bills. Like a household. But they get many more hours a day together than they would without the chemistry. So that seems like a win win. If and only if they keep it in balance. Even deciding the chems make them wake up into the better life isn't necessarily bad, if they can function both ways.
But then I try and imagine a dozen people I could make a world with, and have just them in that world, for the forseeable future, and that's super difficult. That's way beyond friends. Sooner or later you'd want an escape, but you'd have to sleep anyway, and you'd leave so much behind to do that alone.
More interesting dilemmas in a single setting than the rest of the film.
But then this is all the opinion of someone who very seldom leaves the flat and mostly lives via media consumption. So, you know, pinch of salt, ymmv, etc.
Hope y'all have nicer days.