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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Chairboy on December 13, 2006, 09:26:01 AM
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I had a pretty dang vivid dream last night. It was about a house and its surrounding neighborhood, and kept fading back and forth between WWII and current day, with some other decades between. Some house in europe, and the dream would shift to seeing the house shot up with missing plaster and soldiers using it for cover to a calm, sunday morning 20 years later and so on with a family having breakfast. The surrounding neighborhood was really just the backdrop, the dream was really just about the house itself and how much history even an ordinary house could have that you'd never know about.
Kinda like an 'if these walls could talk' except with nazis.
Has anyone seen a film like this?
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No ... but I've seen many Vivid movies:aok
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Is'nt funny how hard it is to describe a dream to someone. You know how cool it looked, but in telling it, it always comes out as not as cool. I do that to my wife all the time.
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Originally posted by FiLtH
.. it always comes out as not as cool. I do that to my wife all the time.
:huh :eek: :lol
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Heh, well the dream definately was not as lame as my retelling, I tell you what. :D
One scene I remember was some soldier being mortally injured by someone on in the house and dying over the period of a minute or so, just some kid in a uniform, then the scene faded from the devestation of the wartime house to the exact same location & camera angle, except decades had passed and it was sunny and there were kids playing in the living room.
Glarg, I know it sounds dumb, but it sure was a riveting dream. The last place I lived was an apartment building I owned in Culver City that had been built in the 1950s. A remodeling project in the bathroom (http://www.hallert.net/kinston/bathroom/bathroom.htm) a few years ago got me thinking about all the history that had happened in that little apartment. Families starting and ending, kids being born and going to school for the first time, families coming home from funerals.... 50 years of intimate, powerful emotions and family moments, and no record. And just about every house in the world has had these histories. That's billions and billions of untold stories...
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I think your dream is a brilliant idea and you should write some of this down before it's gone. You know how quickly dreams fade...
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I've heard a funny story about Alfred Hitchcock: often, in the morning, he had the feeling to have had dreams that could be great sources of inspiration for movies. Unfortunately, he could never remember what his dreams were about.
So he once decided to put a notepad and a pencil on his bedside table and to write a short summary of his dream just as he awakened post-dream in the middle of the night.
The next morning, he could read on his notepad:"man loves woman".
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chairboy, youve broached a good subject:
'dreams that should be made into films.
i have them all the time, sometimes wake up sweating and it takes 30 mins to get back to reality.
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Originally posted by SFRT - Frenchy
No ... but I've seen many Vivid movies:aok
Debby Does Anything PT 12 - the Barnyard Bronco?
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Only movie I can think of close to this is "A Bridge Too Far".
A nice, quiet town (Arnhem) gets pulverised as the battle goes on.
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I have dreams like that all the time. Sometimes I think your brain resolves your thoughts into a 'movie' version. Sometimes a very badly made movie :lol It's as if your subconscious takes interesting thoughts and make a version of it.
To complicate my dreams I work as an extra in movies so naturally that gets thrown into the mix.
Sometimes I dream I'm in movie/watching the movie/making a movie/reality all in one. It's a headwrecker:eek:
But I find my dreams entertaining. I often wonder if people with mental problems have difficulty telling the difference between their dreams and reality.
Chairboy's dream is interesting. I have often stood at a place significant in history and wondered at the events having occured there. I find it fascinating. I remember standing in a room in the Alcazar in Seville where Christopher Columbus planned his voyage across the Atlantic trying to get a sense of his prescence. I was in the South of France this year and saw some of the places where the allies landed during Operation Dragoon in August 1944.
I don't know if you are aware of a magazine called 'After the Battle. Which visits WW2 battlefields and takes photos in the same place as wartime photos. It is surprising sometimes how little has changed. Your dream seems to be an animated version of this magazine. They also publish books on the same theme. A brilliant asset if you ever intend to visit European battlefields.