Here is the list of all the Dreamcore movies from this video on Letterboxd (give us a follow 😉): letterboxd.com/ducinema/list/dreamcore-movies/ Edward Scissorhands Inception The Cat in The Hat Primer Midnight in Paris Spirited Away Mr Nobody Paprika Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Vortex Charlie and the Chocolate Factory/Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory Blade Runner 2049 Shutter Island Donnie Darko Toys Coraline Life of Pi Fight Club Alice in Wonderland The Matrix The Wizard of Oz Enter The Void Vanilla Sky Groundhog Day The Tree of Life Harry Potter Deathly Hallows part 2/Order of the Phoenix Nineteen Eighty-Four Solaris Mirror Ivan's Childhood
I render dreams, by layers. .1 ..................................................................................... Render texture Render 3d objects. .2 ..................................................................................... 3d space, that expands in 3d and 2d perspectives. .3 ..................................................................................... Also in a few milliseconds, I render "population" so that when I do render a group of people my dream can handle all of the. .4 [Do This Step Multiple Times] ..................................................................................... Then, repeat step .1 and .2, to render background and render shades and reflections to reflect people. After this you should render people. ..................................................................................... [Do This Step Multiple Times] .5 ..................................................................................... The last step, is where you remove the people or other parts that don't make sense. [The 2nd Second had passed] The way I render my dreams have two main layers, with hundreds of variables. The main two, Are the background space, and the people. The dream feels sentient itself. And feels like the events of the people are pawns in a game of chess. That's because, my dreams were logic based. Almost like a computer getting rid of things and controlling it.
I’d like to add The Cell (2000) to this list. It’s a very esthetic movie that checks a lot of boxes of the subjects you cover. It’s worth the watch and also could be inspiring for a new video subject. Love your content and I get some nice tips out of your selections. Thx!
The use of Minecraft music in this video is perfect, Minecraft gives such a creepy lonely vibe if you play depressed or something, really feels liminal
well Ive figured out what is going to be on my headstone when I die. "Life is the most beautiful movie we will ever get to see" is probably the single most impactful quote I've heard in a long time.
What if you could dream a dream where in you could do anything you want? Eventually the only exciting thing left is to dream a dream where you dont have control, thats the dream we are living now
I've always loved the idea that that people could "meet" within a dream, share the same dream at the same time and interact and actually both remember it the next day! Logically that's impossible but there's something so mysterious about dreaming that it never actually seems 100% impossible. As a kid, I actually had a "totem place" within my dreams - it was like the sandmans treehouse with a big blue slide with yellow stars. When I went down the slide, I woke up. Whenever I had a nightmare, I just had to find the slide. Alternatively, I could wake up when I just stopped running, folded my hands closed my eyes and prayed to god. I don't care whether people are religious or not - this helped me escape a damn load of zombies, murderers and robots!
It actually is possible and does happen. There's a lot more to dreams than what the "experts" think. The problem is that these people view the world from a certain, very limited, point of view. The whole "logic" thing is what prevents many people from opening their minds to a broader view of reality. Dreams are not just created in the mind. They are not just memories, or subconscious thoughts. There is so much more to dreams (and life itself). Meeting people there is definitely possible, and so are many other things.
@larissa313 True. I don't know too much on that topic in particular, but I do know that most altered states of consciousness (including those reached from meditation, and even dreaming) are very related, and they even trigger the same responses in the brain that occur during spiritual and/or psychic phenomena. Dreams, as well as many other things, are basically taking place in another "realm", or plane of existence. I wouldn't be surprised if all of this is the same stuff, and it just differs in how we reach that place.
the utopian scenery in movies are always so eerie, so creepy. Our conception of utopia is certainly not the right one since it feels wrong and scary. As always a wonderful video essay, truly an underrated creator with beautifully constructed videos. Continue blessing us with these.
@@sanruss The thing is, that is impossible. Human nature is so varied that we never will ever agree on one utopia. We simply cannot because values and preferences differ so much even in small groups. All we will ever acive is the best compromise, but we never all will truly agree on anything.
Why is the word “ underrated” in all comments sections of every video on RUclips? Do you copy everything other people say and think you are being original? My guess is you’re 15 years old.
I like how during the talk about dreams the background music is just minecraft nether music (seriously, i actually really enjoy just sitting down and listening to the nether music in it's ominous glory, which is why i recognized it enough to even make this comment)
Wow I was expecting a small essay about dreamlike scenes in movies and got hit with a real message. Really got me emotional with this one. Awesome work.
The neighborhood in Edward scissorhands definitely gave me that dreamcore feeling. I live in Florida so it’s very common to see those types of houses but just that empty neighborhood with little to no vegetation just feels strange. Also I’ve seen many of these neighborhoods just in general when driving through neighborhoods.
Movies that define dreamcore: - Edward Scissorhands (1990) - Inception (2010) - The Cat in the Hat (2003) - Primer (2004) - Midnight in Paris (2011) - Spirited Away (2001) - Mr. Nobody (2009) - Paprika (2006) - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) - Vortex (2021) - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) - Blade Runner 2049 (2017) - Shutter Island (2010) - Donnie Darko (2001) - Toys (1992) - Coraline (2009) - Life of Pi (2012) - Fight Club (1999) - Alice in Wonderland (2010) - The Matrix (1999) - The Wizard of Oz (1939) - Enter the Void (2009) - Vanilla Sky (2001) - Groundhog Day (1993) - The Tree of Life (2011)
Same i feel like this is romanticizing dreaming. Most dreams don’t make sense but are rooted in some reality. Also, i have found real life to be much more colorful than any dream I’ve ever had. My dreams are pretty much colorless.
The point isn't that these places are real or that we've been in them in our dreams. The reason people are intrigued by it is because of the feeling they get when seeing these videos and pictures that resemble the dream state they get when they're asleep.
Dreams have so so many manifestations. Each so unique and specific. It’s literally a dream, it’s like a psychedelic trip. We see things we can’t describe. It’s amazing
Something incredible about doors: While lucid dreaming the best way to go to a specific place is to imagine that place behind a door. Opening that door has without a fault effectively taken me to wherever i wanted.
I often create a door to escape a hostile environment. I have suffered from recurring nightmares since been a young man. This taught me to Lucid Dream.
This happened to me semi-recently, I dreamt that I was leaving an apartment, but when I opened the door, it led me to seemingly infinite corridors (I went on a Liminal Spaces binge earlier, lol). Rather than frantically going through the maze and trying out every door, I imagined opening the door to my home. After three attempts, I was home, walked to my bed, and woke up. Very bizarre, but an example of lucid dreaming through "the backrooms" lol.
whenever a creature is after me, my brain somehow makes the roblox esc L enter page, and the dream switches to something peaceful and free. it’s happened many times.
Im so happy you talked about primer. That's one of my favorite movies OF ALL TIME. wonderfully explored concept of time. Probably the most realistic to say the least, the most accurate speculatively.
The most accurate depiction of the feelings and surrealness of my dreams while being tied to familiarity and nostalgia in any piece of visual media I have seen has easily got to be the beach scene from Contact. It’s just matches everything so well. The twilight expansive landscape filled with things you might not typically expect to appear in the same scene together. The distant clouds, the serene quietness of everything that matches the silence of dreams, and the ethereal sky of stars that hangs over the scene as if there was no atmosphere and light pollution to cloud your view. The first time I saw it was with my parents and I literally said out loud “This is what my dreams look like” when that scene came on. It was euphoric, like seeing an old friend or being struck by some distant nostalgia you didn’t even remember you could feel
The first time I saw a video by cyriak (cows cows cows, and baaaa especially) I was flooded with a liminal and uncanny feeling, which I realized then was because the way his subjects move were the closest simile to the way things move in my dreams.
I find it interesting that often dreamlike scenes are bright and colourful. I don't know about anyone else, but I don't think I've ever had a dream that was bright and colourful. Even dreams that I don't consider nightmares are realistically coloured or even more dull/darker than real life. Perhaps that's just my depressive and anxious psyche. Would be interested to know if anyone's experience differs significantly.
Most of the times my dreams have realistic colors but sometimes i dream that I am in a game that i played before i went to sleep - for example minecraft. Since minecraft is really colorful i end up being in a colorful world
@@Lupaland11 That makes sense. I don't really play games, so perhaps it's just that the colour in one's dreams reflects the colour in one's real life. Might be an interesting experiment: put someone in a really colourful environment for a month or so and see what their dreams are like.
I think that the way I dream has drastically shifted from before because of mental health issues. I have way more of an anxious feeling even when I’m not straight up having a nightmare, and the coloring of the images is almost from dark to gradient colors focused on the center. It happens mostly when I am elaborating traumatic experiences, but even if it’s not, I very rarely get brightly colored dreams like I remember having more often as a kid. Scary to think how the mind works on a subconscious level while asleep.
It’s only happened a few times but I’ve dreamed of regular places I’ve never been to and never seen before and then I see a photo or scene in a movie that same place years later and I’m like “wait that place is real? I’ve been there in my dreams”. It’s surreal.
Why was this so stylish, tasty and relevant to sink your teeth into? Dreams and time have always been huge concepts on my mind, and Nolan is definitely taking these thoughts and themes I've been grasping at almost as far as the visual medium will take them. Great stuff and subscribing immediately
holy crap that ending sequence for this video was so well done, using the inception analogy for movie making was incredibly meta and wrapped it up so nicely
I think the parallels you manage to find between totally different topics and how you explain the obscure connections between those different fields, is a really special talent. These videos are so good that trying to describe the experience is another whole experience by itself, so thank you a lot for your phenomenal work and for sharing.
Everyone's already talking about liminal spaces but I like to think that any project about dreams can always be unique because some dreams can are unique and personal. Consider one's experiences and influences etc, you can present something new.
Row, Row, Row, your boat Gently down the stream Merrily, Merrily, Merrily Life is but a dream. We were taught this as children in a simple song. Many of us forgot. As Bill Hicks once said, "Its just a ride".
This video explained it very very well. The feeling that you get was explained perfectly. I loved how you put it in a cinematic aspect too. Amazing job.
I’ve never had a dream like those dream core liminal vibes , mine are very …intense and detailed to the point I refuse to believe in a singular reality as this one we all experience . At times I physically feel and smell the circumstances, other times I’d have conversations and events that happen in this reality almost like a prophecy and I’m certainly not the only person who’ve experienced this. Really made me question lots of times reality and the potential of a multiverse , almost like a visit to our “other” selves through dream state. Whether it’s a fiction of our subconscious through the awake conscious or not , my dreams have been as well tools to creativity just as you mentioned in the video. Dreams are fascinating to me. I’ve also had dreams within a dream within a dream , where I’d wake up within the dream only to re wake up to re wake up until I actually wake up. My dreams are so important to my sanity Amazing video , anything that has to do with liminal spaces , back rooms and dream core for some reason simply gives me a lot of …. Peace
I have the exact same experiences with my dreams and feel the exact same way! the multiverse, seeing the future and experiencing a glimpse of another's life is so real and fascinating to experience. have a good day ♡
I've long experience this too. Either super realistic or so far out of existence but it still feels real. And it usually predicts something that actually happens. Or I speak with dead relatives. Of course no one believes me so whatever.
I've long experience this too. Either super realistic or so far out of existence but it still feels real. And it usually predicts something that actually happens. Or I speak with dead relatives. Of course no one believes me so whatever.
I dream every single night. I always remember my dreams, 98% of the time. I can remember dreams I had when I was first learning consciousness at a very young age. I’ve had panic attacks in my sleep, sleep paralysis so many times, also I have lucid dreams where I can make my own visual decisions. I’ve also managed to remind myself I am sleeping and can talk for myself. Dreams are so weird but I wouldn’t give it up for any amount of money. I feel like I have a whole different life in my dreams. I am the same person but so different. 👁
Same here. I barely sleep, usually just a few hours a day. But I always remember several dreams after I wake up. And in my dreams, no matter what they're about, I have the ability to float in the air. It's not like flying, but hovering. I jump, and bend my legs, or lean back, and this prevents me from coming back down. I hover just a few feet above the ground. I can do this in any dream, even nightmares. And when I'm doing it, I'm always showing off, basically saying "hey everyone, look at me!". Yesterday I had a dream where a tidal wave of... Weird neon glowing liquid was coming. It was like running away from (fast) lava, but it looked like psychedelic radiant blue and pink stuff. I ran into my house to warn my parents and tell them to leave because the wave was about to wash over the house. When I left, it was already too close so I had to use my hover ability to escape. This was a serious and scary moment, but because I was hovering, my "look how far I can float!" attitude came back and I was so delighted with myself, timing how long I could go without touching the ground, and saying "why don't you all just float too?", knowing full well that nobody else could do it 😂 I also always know when I'm asleep, and am fully conscious. Even if I don't know how to control my dreams, I have full control of myself within them. I have thoughts, feelings, and everything I'd have in real life, so the experience feels just as real. I can also wake up whenever I want, just by thinking "I should wake up now" or "I think I heard something". I've never moved in my sleep, because I'm always fully aware when I wake up and turn over or adjust my position before going back to sleep. Even if i don't open my eyes, I'm fully conscious of it. So I've never woken up in a different position than I fell asleep. I've also never being confused about where I was when I woke up. Even before I open my eyes, I always know exactly what I'm going to see when I do, even when sleeping in a new and unfamiliar location. I remember where I fell asleep even before I wake up, so there is no surprise or confusion when I wake up.
This video was shockingly inspirational and amazing, it felt like watching a full hour long documentary but it was only 19 minutes! Keep making videos, this is talent here!
every time I see rolling grass hills or suburban neighborhoods with the yellow and peach, blue house with super green yards I always get a feeling of comfort like I wanna be there or been there it’s so nostalgic feeling I never can explain it
With that, for me it feels like freedom, people living in a colorful place, nobody controlling it, no grey and dark neighborhoods or signs of city life, bueatiful blue skies and clouds flowing as if they were alive
Right?? Happy fun colours, but calm, not too chaotic, and people just living, enjoying their lives and the simple pleasures like growing flowers, playing with pets, or watching the sun set with a favourite drink in hand. It seems like everyone there agrees on one thing: they all want peace. They're all willing to work together for it, and they take care of and look out for each other, but still respect privacy and mind their own business. It's an ideal little community. That word, community... Relationships, comraderie, and care. Care for things, care for people, care for life.
Same, except I get mixed feelings about it, like it all looks so lovely and homely, but at the same time it could be all "fake" and empty, and just a representation of home. It's hard to describe the feeling.
This video is absolutely beautiful. The kind of video essays I love watching in my free time, thank you for not only showing the dreamscape and solidifying my understanding of the aesthetic but expanding my knowledge on the history and background of the subject. The video is so beautiful it had me in tears at the end by the sheer quality and effort put into it. Thank you for this masterpiece, I aspire to create educational art as beautiful as you have here.
I personally have always found these topics super interesting, and I've never found any channel that covers them this well until now. please never stop posting! all of your videos are just brilliant to watch!!
Here is another idea about dreams: What if dreams are actually previews of the afterlife world? Maybe dreams are our emotional, spiritual and mental states, memories and experiences manifested into a visible/physical world?
Holy shit, this just made me remember the dream I had last night. It was kind of backroomsy, but it was instead that if something you were dying in a specific way, you would fall through the world into a small, spinning yellow box, maybe 20 feet across, with a door floating on one end. There were maybe 7 or 8 people, and all of the people there were huddled up in one corner, since the box being tilted but not spinning tilted meant trying to be on the other corner was more likely to throw you off, and someone occasionally came through to check on us through the door, some sort of ringleader. The door would never open for us, only him, and I remember me and one other pulling him down into the room and running across tons of creepy liminal spaces. Really fuckin weird dream. The weirdest part though, is that I remember having it before. Except I was one of the people already there this time.
Why doesn’t this have millions of views and likes?!? I am blown away from this video it touches on everything and contains such a good narrative and soundtrack to keep you engaged and lost at the same time. Well done my friend, I have done my part and I hope others do the same because this video shouldn’t go unnoticed.
and just like that... this video became one of my favorite videos ever Extremely well done, well researched and overall perfectly organized... Relating all these themes of dreams, dementia, schyzophrenia and an scape from reality was just genius Thank you for this
Have been working on this for quite a few months, besides I was at a screening with director Gaspar Noe and he talked about how nobody really analyzes dreams in movies. So I had to do it 🙏🚪🖼🌈
I actully finished watching the video and it blew my mind how to found a connection between the liminal spaces and reality of life, maybe this life is actully a dream fed into our brains or generated by it but on this one its bound to certain rules
This video was so absolutely beautiful. I weapt deeply. It encompasses so much truth and passion. Perfect selection of music and understanding of composition. Thank you for your hard work and talent for making such a unique transitional piece. 👏
What a terrific video. Just speaking about these profound moments in the films you mentioned is moving. That and the score you used brought it all together. Well done!
By far my fav new RUclipsr. I always felt like I was alone when it came to loving or learning about these things. The fact that you put so much effort into this video just shows me how into it you are just as much as me. Even teaching me new things expanding my mind !!! New subscriber
I always had a hard time controlling my dreams until I was told to repeat to myself over and over to dream about a mirror and see my reflection. When I finally was able to, I no longer was afraid.
My dream places feel homey and safe because it's basically my own world. It sometimes feels like I can visit the same spots. Once I dreamt about being a in a neighborhood, it was warm and sunset and people were out playing and laughing and the houses were beautiful and I remember my house was tall and brown and made of brick, it was pure bliss
It's actually pretty interesting to see what kind of places most people see in their dreams. I've actually never seen a 'places you've seen in your dreams' picture, that would depict something I'd ever dreamed off, maybe because my brain knows it'll trigger a lucid dreaming session, as soon as it presents me with something impossible/unreal and tries to avoid it?
I'm surprised you didn't mention any David Lynch movies, since a lot of his movies are inspired by dreams and have this very surreal atmosphere. Nevertheless, excellent video!
I had so many other movies that I would've loved to discuss but I couldn't find a way to integrate them without making it too tedious. Had to stick to the most famous ones. I did mention some of Lynch his work in the first video, but I would have loved to talk about it in the Surrealism stage of this video as well.
This video reminds me of one of those iconic videos that were made years ago with millions of views that everyone gets in their recommended at least once. Was schocked to realise it was only uploaded a few days ago with 60k views. I hope this becomes one of those iconic vids, it’s so well made!!
watching Inception in 2010 at an empty run down movie theater that peaked in the 80's was weird, how much of this is just gen z/millennial nostalgia combined with technology
I agree with the other comments, this video is really really well done. The "strangely familiar places" aren't familiar to me at all.. but my dreams were strange since I can remember, often so strange I can't even tell what I dreamed.
This video was amazing. I used to have so many lucid dreams that I felt I had a double life and that became a big part of how I became a creative person. I felt this video was so well written that I wish I could have seen this sooner. Instant subscription to you, sir.
Great video! They're getting better every time. Love the subject as well. Vivarium is another one in that direction I'd recommend to anyone who hasn't seen it.
This video was so well made it honestly hurt a little, especially after mentions like Tchaikovsky, to not have mentioned Alejandro Jodorowski and especially his movie the Holy Mountain. I refuse to give spoilers but it ends with the same sentiment of this video only even more literally
Last night I had a really vivid dream about how I was trying to back my dads truck out of a boat ramp. The water came in, stalled the engine, then receded. Then I prayed it would fire back up and it did. Then the rear wheels got stuck in the mud, then the steering wheel disappeared!!! I was going to switch it to 4x4 before I was rudely awoken by the wife haha.
I literally got chills at the end having gained this knowledge and all of the complex thoughts and ideas. At the end when all of it is closed back up very neatly into a few easy-to-unpack sentiments, with the heavenly, yet slightly melancholic soundtrack playing in the background just made me feel like i was myself floating away into a white nothingness, yet i wasn't scared or apprehensive.. it's weird and the only thing i could imagine it being similar to is the sensation of dying :D. (TLDR: video made me feel like dying xD)
Sometimes before sleep I wish myself to enjoy my dream, even ifI won;t remember it after waking up. This feeling of dream evaporating from your memory as you wake up is so surreal, yet I experience it almost any time I think about it.
You can remember dreams better by keeping a dream journal and not moving (not even a twitch) for around 5-15 minutes after waking while trying to recall the dream. There's some memory techniques you can use during this time to pull from different memories to see if anything matches with the dreams
The dreamcore phenomenon is really fascinating. It perfectly captures this strange mix of nostalgia, surreal aesthetics and underlying unrest. Somehow it feels familiar, even though you can't quite place it - like a hazy dream you only half remember. What I find particularly exciting is how strongly it affects emotions, often without a clear context. It shows how powerful images and moods can be when they hit just the right mix of familiar and unfamiliar.
Here is the list of all the Dreamcore movies from this video on Letterboxd (give us a follow 😉): letterboxd.com/ducinema/list/dreamcore-movies/
Edward Scissorhands
Inception
The Cat in The Hat
Primer
Midnight in Paris
Spirited Away
Mr Nobody
Paprika
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Vortex
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory/Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
Blade Runner 2049
Shutter Island
Donnie Darko
Toys
Coraline
Life of Pi
Fight Club
Alice in Wonderland
The Matrix
The Wizard of Oz
Enter The Void
Vanilla Sky
Groundhog Day
The Tree of Life
Harry Potter Deathly Hallows part 2/Order of the Phoenix
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Solaris
Mirror
Ivan's Childhood
Synecdoche New York is a banger dreamcore movie, definitely give it a watch
On second thought, all Charlie Kaufman movies fit under that umbrella
@@Miles-rx5ip Oh damn yes, I had so many other titles as well but then the video would have been like 30+ minutes and a bit boring haha
I render dreams, by layers.
.1
.....................................................................................
Render texture
Render 3d objects.
.2
.....................................................................................
3d space, that expands in 3d and 2d perspectives.
.3
.....................................................................................
Also in a few milliseconds, I render "population" so that when I do render a group of people my dream can handle all of the.
.4
[Do This Step Multiple Times]
.....................................................................................
Then, repeat step .1 and .2, to render background and render shades and reflections to reflect people.
After this you should render people.
.....................................................................................
[Do This Step Multiple Times]
.5
.....................................................................................
The last step, is where you remove the people or other parts that don't make sense.
[The 2nd Second had passed]
The way I render my dreams have two main layers, with hundreds of variables.
The main two,
Are the background space, and the people.
The dream feels sentient itself.
And feels like the events of the people are pawns in a game of chess.
That's because, my dreams were logic based.
Almost like a computer getting rid of things and controlling it.
I’d like to add The Cell (2000) to this list. It’s a very esthetic movie that checks a lot of boxes of the subjects you cover. It’s worth the watch and also could be inspiring for a new video subject. Love your content and I get some nice tips out of your selections. Thx!
The use of Minecraft music in this video is perfect, Minecraft gives such a creepy lonely vibe if you play depressed or something, really feels liminal
Sadly for me, if I’m depressed I can’t bring myself to play 😢
Could you please put timestamps or the name of the musics at least?
What’s the song at the end
Playing minecraft by yourself feels like being on a planet by yourself thats why I usually play with music on😭😭😭
Indeed!
well Ive figured out what is going to be on my headstone when I die. "Life is the most beautiful movie we will ever get to see" is probably the single most impactful quote I've heard in a long time.
Man, "Life is the most beautiful movie we will ever get to see" hits me so hard.
The effort put in this video is amazing. Good job!
yeah hits real hard for depressed people too, totally accurate
Yeah almost unexpectedly teared up at that part
yeah im depressed and these words made me believe that im in a dream
What if you could dream a dream where in you could do anything you want? Eventually the only exciting thing left is to dream a dream where you dont have control, thats the dream we are living now
I've always loved the idea that that people could "meet" within a dream, share the same dream at the same time and interact and actually both remember it the next day! Logically that's impossible but there's something so mysterious about dreaming that it never actually seems 100% impossible.
As a kid, I actually had a "totem place" within my dreams - it was like the sandmans treehouse with a big blue slide with yellow stars. When I went down the slide, I woke up. Whenever I had a nightmare, I just had to find the slide. Alternatively, I could wake up when I just stopped running, folded my hands closed my eyes and prayed to god. I don't care whether people are religious or not - this helped me escape a damn load of zombies, murderers and robots!
Its possible :)
It actually is possible and does happen. There's a lot more to dreams than what the "experts" think. The problem is that these people view the world from a certain, very limited, point of view. The whole "logic" thing is what prevents many people from opening their minds to a broader view of reality.
Dreams are not just created in the mind. They are not just memories, or subconscious thoughts. There is so much more to dreams (and life itself). Meeting people there is definitely possible, and so are many other things.
@@ShizuruNakatsu just as that you can have “trips” together and see the same things/eachother :) I experienced that with my brother
@larissa313 True. I don't know too much on that topic in particular, but I do know that most altered states of consciousness (including those reached from meditation, and even dreaming) are very related, and they even trigger the same responses in the brain that occur during spiritual and/or psychic phenomena. Dreams, as well as many other things, are basically taking place in another "realm", or plane of existence. I wouldn't be surprised if all of this is the same stuff, and it just differs in how we reach that place.
@@ShizuruNakatsu exactly!
the utopian scenery in movies are always so eerie, so creepy. Our conception of utopia is certainly not the right one since it feels wrong and scary. As always a wonderful video essay, truly an underrated creator with beautifully constructed videos. Continue blessing us with these.
I think part of the issue is that one person's version of utopia is another person's version of hell.
@@amusingautomatons2692 shouldn't a true utopia be universal? A stop where evryone converge to and agree on.
@@sanruss The thing is, that is impossible. Human nature is so varied that we never will ever agree on one utopia. We simply cannot because values and preferences differ so much even in small groups. All we will ever acive is the best compromise, but we never all will truly agree on anything.
"Early versions of the matrix were too perfect."
Or something like that
Edit
5:29
Aaahahahaha
I think this is the difference between "utopia" and "dystopia"
i love how the minecraft nether music is in the chapter of surrealism. such a nice detail
This was so well-made. Your channel is unacceptably underrated
Thank you so much, really 🙏
Why is the word “ underrated” in all comments sections of every video on RUclips? Do you copy everything other people say and think you are being original? My guess is you’re 15 years old.
@@DuCinema1 Hey man! Awesome video!
Underrated? He's got 200k subscribers... He's doing good.
All the best ones are
I cried at the outro/conclusion (the choice of the music, the scenes, the match cuts, the auditory voice). Magnificent.
I don't think it would be wrong to say that this video is very very well researched and very well-made.
Ai response
@@cord2706 and why do you say that?
An AI wouldn’t have put “very very”… we can confirm K Dot is human, everyone. 🤖
@@Dizma_Music good observation
@@kdot78 k bot 🤖
I like how during the talk about dreams the background music is just minecraft nether music (seriously, i actually really enjoy just sitting down and listening to the nether music in it's ominous glory, which is why i recognized it enough to even make this comment)
Wow I was expecting a small essay about dreamlike scenes in movies and got hit with a real message. Really got me emotional with this one. Awesome work.
The neighborhood in Edward scissorhands definitely gave me that dreamcore feeling. I live in Florida so it’s very common to see those types of houses but just that empty neighborhood with little to no vegetation just feels strange. Also I’ve seen many of these neighborhoods just in general when driving through neighborhoods.
Movies that define dreamcore:
- Edward Scissorhands (1990)
- Inception (2010)
- The Cat in the Hat (2003)
- Primer (2004)
- Midnight in Paris (2011)
- Spirited Away (2001)
- Mr. Nobody (2009)
- Paprika (2006)
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
- Vortex (2021)
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
- Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
- Shutter Island (2010)
- Donnie Darko (2001)
- Toys (1992)
- Coraline (2009)
- Life of Pi (2012)
- Fight Club (1999)
- Alice in Wonderland (2010)
- The Matrix (1999)
- The Wizard of Oz (1939)
- Enter the Void (2009)
- Vanilla Sky (2001)
- Groundhog Day (1993)
- The Tree of Life (2011)
Imma watch all of them this weekend, tysm
True
Spirted away is so true, also sharkboy and lava girl
alices adventures in wonderland by some polish guy also
@@tvojamama4249You think Pan's Labyrinth would fit in this list?
is it just me or did the video itself feel a hell of a lot longer than 19 mins… this is incredible and definitely learnt a lot
Am I the only one who’s dreams don’t look like these types of places? I mean, the things that happen make no sense but they just don’t look like that
Same i feel like this is romanticizing dreaming. Most dreams don’t make sense but are rooted in some reality. Also, i have found real life to be much more colorful than any dream I’ve ever had. My dreams are pretty much colorless.
The point isn't that these places are real or that we've been in them in our dreams. The reason people are intrigued by it is because of the feeling they get when seeing these videos and pictures that resemble the dream state they get when they're asleep.
Dreams have so so many manifestations. Each so unique and specific. It’s literally a dream, it’s like a psychedelic trip. We see things we can’t describe. It’s amazing
It feels like I’ve been there in real life more
most of my dreams are in my house. either current or childhood house sometimes
Something incredible about doors:
While lucid dreaming the best way to go to a specific place is to imagine that place behind a door. Opening that door has without a fault effectively taken me to wherever i wanted.
I often create a door to escape a hostile environment. I have suffered from recurring nightmares since been a young man. This taught me to Lucid Dream.
youre so lucky. i dream thr most absurd stuff and still cannot notice that i dream. impossible to me😮
Pro tips on lucid dreaming 😉
This happened to me semi-recently, I dreamt that I was leaving an apartment, but when I opened the door, it led me to seemingly infinite corridors (I went on a Liminal Spaces binge earlier, lol). Rather than frantically going through the maze and trying out every door, I imagined opening the door to my home. After three attempts, I was home, walked to my bed, and woke up. Very bizarre, but an example of lucid dreaming through "the backrooms" lol.
whenever a creature is after me, my brain somehow makes the roblox esc L enter page, and the dream switches to something peaceful and free. it’s happened many times.
Im so happy you talked about primer. That's one of my favorite movies OF ALL TIME. wonderfully explored concept of time. Probably the most realistic to say the least, the most accurate speculatively.
The most accurate depiction of the feelings and surrealness of my dreams while being tied to familiarity and nostalgia in any piece of visual media I have seen has easily got to be the beach scene from Contact. It’s just matches everything so well. The twilight expansive landscape filled with things you might not typically expect to appear in the same scene together. The distant clouds, the serene quietness of everything that matches the silence of dreams, and the ethereal sky of stars that hangs over the scene as if there was no atmosphere and light pollution to cloud your view. The first time I saw it was with my parents and I literally said out loud “This is what my dreams look like” when that scene came on. It was euphoric, like seeing an old friend or being struck by some distant nostalgia you didn’t even remember you could feel
The first time I saw a video by cyriak (cows cows cows, and baaaa especially) I was flooded with a liminal and uncanny feeling, which I realized then was because the way his subjects move were the closest simile to the way things move in my dreams.
That was a deep statement,life is the best movie we will ever see. Brought me thoughts of my baby opening her eyes.
This is, hands down, the most rewarding RUclips video I've ever watched. Thank you.
So awesome to hear, thank you for that 🙏
I find it interesting that often dreamlike scenes are bright and colourful. I don't know about anyone else, but I don't think I've ever had a dream that was bright and colourful. Even dreams that I don't consider nightmares are realistically coloured or even more dull/darker than real life. Perhaps that's just my depressive and anxious psyche. Would be interested to know if anyone's experience differs significantly.
Most of the times my dreams have realistic colors but sometimes i dream that I am in a game that i played before i went to sleep - for example minecraft. Since minecraft is really colorful i end up being in a colorful world
@@Lupaland11 That makes sense. I don't really play games, so perhaps it's just that the colour in one's dreams reflects the colour in one's real life. Might be an interesting experiment: put someone in a really colourful environment for a month or so and see what their dreams are like.
A dream is always intense so everything you see will feel like different compared to reality. Dont worry about it.
Sometimes my dreams are dark, quite bleak. Sometimes they are incredibly colorful, like a Ghibli studios movie.
I think that the way I dream has drastically shifted from before because of mental health issues. I have way more of an anxious feeling even when I’m not straight up having a nightmare, and the coloring of the images is almost from dark to gradient colors focused on the center. It happens mostly when I am elaborating traumatic experiences, but even if it’s not, I very rarely get brightly colored dreams like I remember having more often as a kid. Scary to think how the mind works on a subconscious level while asleep.
It’s only happened a few times but I’ve dreamed of regular places I’ve never been to and never seen before and then I see a photo or scene in a movie that same place years later and I’m like “wait that place is real? I’ve been there in my dreams”. It’s surreal.
Why was this so stylish, tasty and relevant to sink your teeth into? Dreams and time have always been huge concepts on my mind, and Nolan is definitely taking these thoughts and themes I've been grasping at almost as far as the visual medium will take them. Great stuff and subscribing immediately
I shared your channel to all my cinephile friends, and we're obsessed with you now, it just frustrates me to see how underrated this channel is.
🙏 Thank you soo much! Cinephiles recognize cinephiles 🤝
I didn't expect this 20 minutes video to be so beautifully made and hold such powerful meanings
ghost, spiders, open sea, underwater, demons, serial killers do not scare me as much as the backrooms phenomenon, something so simple yet so unnerving
holy crap that ending sequence for this video was so well done, using the inception analogy for movie making was incredibly meta and wrapped it up so nicely
Your voice is so soothing. It makes me want to fall asleep.
I think the parallels you manage to find between totally different topics and how you explain the obscure connections between those different fields, is a really special talent.
These videos are so good that trying to describe the experience is another whole experience by itself, so thank you a lot for your phenomenal work and for sharing.
🙏❤️
this x1000
Everyone's already talking about liminal spaces but I like to think that any project about dreams can always be unique because some dreams can are unique and personal.
Consider one's experiences and influences etc, you can present something new.
Your account is literally every film lovers dream. Thankyou for posting, I can't wait to see your channel grow!
❤️ Thank you!!
@@DuCinema1 no problem! :)
the countless mentions of ''vanilla sky'' without actually talking about it was a nice touch for those who know the movie
Thinking about after life makes me cry, but not in a sad way. That feeling is dreamy. It is an unknown bliss to me
2:35 there's that thing in the colors that trigger such an immense nostalgia that I can't describe
Ed Edd n' Eddy
Row, Row, Row, your boat
Gently down the stream
Merrily, Merrily, Merrily
Life is but a dream.
We were taught this as children in a simple song. Many of us forgot. As Bill Hicks once said, "Its just a ride".
Made me emotional how this video is so well written. Might get a tattoo of that last quote you said.
"This allows them to enter another person's dream, like SpongeBob..." What a great quote man
This video explained it very very well. The feeling that you get was explained perfectly. I loved how you put it in a cinematic aspect too. Amazing job.
I’ve never had a dream like those dream core liminal vibes , mine are very …intense and detailed to the point I refuse to believe in a singular reality as this one we all experience . At times I physically feel and smell the circumstances, other times I’d have conversations and events that happen in this reality almost like a prophecy and I’m certainly not the only person who’ve experienced this. Really made me question lots of times reality and the potential of a multiverse , almost like a visit to our “other” selves through dream state.
Whether it’s a fiction of our subconscious through the awake conscious or not , my dreams have been as well tools to creativity just as you mentioned in the video. Dreams are fascinating to me.
I’ve also had dreams within a dream within a dream , where I’d wake up within the dream only to re wake up to re wake up until I actually wake up. My dreams are so important to my sanity
Amazing video , anything that has to do with liminal spaces , back rooms and dream core for some reason simply gives me a lot of …. Peace
I have the exact same experiences with my dreams and feel the exact same way! the multiverse, seeing the future and experiencing a glimpse of another's life is so real and fascinating to experience. have a good day ♡
Same it’s weird
I've long experience this too. Either super realistic or so far out of existence but it still feels real. And it usually predicts something that actually happens. Or I speak with dead relatives.
Of course no one believes me so whatever.
I've long experience this too. Either super realistic or so far out of existence but it still feels real. And it usually predicts something that actually happens. Or I speak with dead relatives.
Of course no one believes me so whatever.
@@juanmccoy3066 All I have to say to people who exp it too, make a movie about it . The light , Color , vibe , sensation , perspective and occurrence
Ahhhhh excellent use of dream/ limo liminal evoking music such as Claire de Lune, and Gnossienne throughout your analysis!!
I dream every single night. I always remember my dreams, 98% of the time. I can remember dreams I had when I was first learning consciousness at a very young age. I’ve had panic attacks in my sleep, sleep paralysis so many times, also I have lucid dreams where I can make my own visual decisions. I’ve also managed to remind myself I am sleeping and can talk for myself. Dreams are so weird but I wouldn’t give it up for any amount of money. I feel like I have a whole different life in my dreams. I am the same person but so different. 👁
A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities
- J.R.R Tolkien
Same here. I barely sleep, usually just a few hours a day. But I always remember several dreams after I wake up. And in my dreams, no matter what they're about, I have the ability to float in the air. It's not like flying, but hovering. I jump, and bend my legs, or lean back, and this prevents me from coming back down. I hover just a few feet above the ground. I can do this in any dream, even nightmares. And when I'm doing it, I'm always showing off, basically saying "hey everyone, look at me!". Yesterday I had a dream where a tidal wave of... Weird neon glowing liquid was coming. It was like running away from (fast) lava, but it looked like psychedelic radiant blue and pink stuff. I ran into my house to warn my parents and tell them to leave because the wave was about to wash over the house. When I left, it was already too close so I had to use my hover ability to escape. This was a serious and scary moment, but because I was hovering, my "look how far I can float!" attitude came back and I was so delighted with myself, timing how long I could go without touching the ground, and saying "why don't you all just float too?", knowing full well that nobody else could do it 😂
I also always know when I'm asleep, and am fully conscious. Even if I don't know how to control my dreams, I have full control of myself within them. I have thoughts, feelings, and everything I'd have in real life, so the experience feels just as real. I can also wake up whenever I want, just by thinking "I should wake up now" or "I think I heard something". I've never moved in my sleep, because I'm always fully aware when I wake up and turn over or adjust my position before going back to sleep. Even if i don't open my eyes, I'm fully conscious of it. So I've never woken up in a different position than I fell asleep. I've also never being confused about where I was when I woke up. Even before I open my eyes, I always know exactly what I'm going to see when I do, even when sleeping in a new and unfamiliar location. I remember where I fell asleep even before I wake up, so there is no surprise or confusion when I wake up.
This is exactly how I dream, you described it perfectly
Most people can only remember dreams if they’ve been highly emotional. For example nightmares.
You guys should try different drugs to get a bit more rest.
This video was shockingly inspirational and amazing, it felt like watching a full hour long documentary but it was only 19 minutes! Keep making videos, this is talent here!
The sound tracks you had in this film was crazy, i am so glad i watched this, definitely left me inspired!!!
every time I see rolling grass hills or suburban neighborhoods with the yellow and peach, blue house with super green yards I always get a feeling of comfort like I wanna be there or been there it’s so nostalgic feeling I never can explain it
With that, for me it feels like freedom, people living in a colorful place, nobody controlling it, no grey and dark neighborhoods or signs of city life, bueatiful blue skies and clouds flowing as if they were alive
To contrast whenever i see stuff like that I feel a sense of eeryness or dread.
@@bullettime1116me too it reminds me of a wrinkle in time
Right?? Happy fun colours, but calm, not too chaotic, and people just living, enjoying their lives and the simple pleasures like growing flowers, playing with pets, or watching the sun set with a favourite drink in hand. It seems like everyone there agrees on one thing: they all want peace. They're all willing to work together for it, and they take care of and look out for each other, but still respect privacy and mind their own business. It's an ideal little community. That word, community... Relationships, comraderie, and care. Care for things, care for people, care for life.
Same, except I get mixed feelings about it, like it all looks so lovely and homely, but at the same time it could be all "fake" and empty, and just a representation of home. It's hard to describe the feeling.
This video was so good that it made my breathing like 2 seconds slower
This video is absolutely beautiful. The kind of video essays I love watching in my free time, thank you for not only showing the dreamscape and solidifying my understanding of the aesthetic but expanding my knowledge on the history and background of the subject. The video is so beautiful it had me in tears at the end by the sheer quality and effort put into it. Thank you for this masterpiece, I aspire to create educational art as beautiful as you have here.
🙏❤️ Thank you so much for the awesome comment
1:02 i love the music combination with this clip of Coraline, and how it builds!
I personally have always found these topics super interesting, and I've never found any channel that covers them this well until now. please never stop posting! all of your videos are just brilliant to watch!!
Truly appreciate it 🙏
among us farts
@@pufferfishparty yes
among us farts
I've got a picture of a ghost on a tv.
this felt like a production of a channel with more than 1 million subscribers, keep up the good work
Here is another idea about dreams: What if dreams are actually previews of the afterlife world? Maybe dreams are our emotional, spiritual and mental states, memories and experiences manifested into a visible/physical world?
I love the topic around liminal spaces or in General strangely familiar places. Thank you for uploading such a great content ❤
my dreams are usually extremely surreal but the more lucid they are, the more vivid.
Rubedo fits so greatly into the Surrealism section
what an incredible video, super well made and researched, cried at the end at "Life is the most beautiful movie we will ever get to see" 10/10
Holy shit, this just made me remember the dream I had last night. It was kind of backroomsy, but it was instead that if something you were dying in a specific way, you would fall through the world into a small, spinning yellow box, maybe 20 feet across, with a door floating on one end. There were maybe 7 or 8 people, and all of the people there were huddled up in one corner, since the box being tilted but not spinning tilted meant trying to be on the other corner was more likely to throw you off, and someone occasionally came through to check on us through the door, some sort of ringleader. The door would never open for us, only him, and I remember me and one other pulling him down into the room and running across tons of creepy liminal spaces. Really fuckin weird dream.
The weirdest part though, is that I remember having it before. Except I was one of the people already there this time.
Why doesn’t this have millions of views and likes?!? I am blown away from this video it touches on everything and contains such a good narrative and soundtrack to keep you engaged and lost at the same time. Well done my friend, I have done my part and I hope others do the same because this video shouldn’t go unnoticed.
Thank you so much for the awesome words!
and just like that... this video became one of my favorite videos ever
Extremely well done, well researched and overall perfectly organized...
Relating all these themes of dreams, dementia, schyzophrenia and an scape from reality was just genius
Thank you for this
the only thing i wasn't expecting was another version of this video!!!!!! thank you again
Have been working on this for quite a few months, besides I was at a screening with director Gaspar Noe and he talked about how nobody really analyzes dreams in movies. So I had to do it 🙏🚪🖼🌈
I actully finished watching the video and it blew my mind how to found a connection between the liminal spaces and reality of life, maybe this life is actully a dream fed into our brains or generated by it but on this one its bound to certain rules
This video was so absolutely beautiful. I weapt deeply. It encompasses so much truth and passion. Perfect selection of music and understanding of composition. Thank you for your hard work and talent for making such a unique transitional piece. 👏
What a terrific video. Just speaking about these profound moments in the films you mentioned is moving. That and the score you used brought it all together. Well done!
By far my fav new RUclipsr. I always felt like I was alone when it came to loving or learning about these things. The fact that you put so much effort into this video just shows me how into it you are just as much as me. Even teaching me new things expanding my mind !!! New subscriber
🙏❤️
When I first stumbled on this Channel I said to myself “finally a good quality movie channel” love you man keep up the good work
❤️ Thank you so much!
Over the garden wall did it very well, I love that show with its strange beauty.
I always had a hard time controlling my dreams until I was told to repeat to myself over and over to dream about a mirror and see my reflection. When I finally was able to, I no longer was afraid.
Man, great editing on this vid. Your close out about life was hard hitting.
My dream places feel homey and safe because it's basically my own world. It sometimes feels like I can visit the same spots. Once I dreamt about being a in a neighborhood, it was warm and sunset and people were out playing and laughing and the houses were beautiful and I remember my house was tall and brown and made of brick, it was pure bliss
There's no better feeling than a good dream
It's actually pretty interesting to see what kind of places most people see in their dreams.
I've actually never seen a 'places you've seen in your dreams' picture, that would depict something I'd ever dreamed off, maybe because my brain knows it'll trigger a lucid dreaming session, as soon as it presents me with something impossible/unreal and tries to avoid it?
can never get over how familiar some of those places feel..
this is the best video i've watched in a while. amazingly complied and so well-made. gave me goosebumps
I'm surprised you didn't mention any David Lynch movies, since a lot of his movies are inspired by dreams and have this very surreal atmosphere. Nevertheless, excellent video!
I had so many other movies that I would've loved to discuss but I couldn't find a way to integrate them without making it too tedious. Had to stick to the most famous ones. I did mention some of Lynch his work in the first video, but I would have loved to talk about it in the Surrealism stage of this video as well.
17:05
From here to the end gave me absolute shivers
This video reminds me of one of those iconic videos that were made years ago with millions of views that everyone gets in their recommended at least once. Was schocked to realise it was only uploaded a few days ago with 60k views. I hope this becomes one of those iconic vids, it’s so well made!!
❤️
I really liked the way this dreamcore video was discussed, it's just as good as the liminal space one. Very atmospheric, its so nice.
This video was beautifully crafted. I hope you never stop producing these art pieces of film analysis.
You just made a video with the golden list of movies, all of the movies you cited are AMAZING
Having pretty good editing quality aside this guy is really great at picking background musics. Really fits in with the rest of the video.
There's a caretaker track about a third of the way through. Absolutely perfect thinking about dreamscapes
Then he brings up a different caretaker track. I should've finished the video before commenting😅
Make more videos like this I love this videos Man.
I don't usually comment, but the quality and the time you invest in each video is unmatchable. Thank you for everything!
watching Inception in 2010 at an empty run down movie theater that peaked in the 80's was weird, how much of this is just gen z/millennial nostalgia combined with technology
I agree with the other comments, this video is really really well done.
The "strangely familiar places" aren't familiar to me at all.. but my dreams were strange since I can remember, often so strange I can't even tell what I dreamed.
omfg outro got me tearing up this is just so beautifully crafted
This is one of the best videos on RUclips, I'm almost crying wtf.
This video was amazing. I used to have so many lucid dreams that I felt I had a double life and that became a big part of how I became a creative person. I felt this video was so well written that I wish I could have seen this sooner. Instant subscription to you, sir.
Great video! They're getting better every time. Love the subject as well. Vivarium is another one in that direction I'd recommend to anyone who hasn't seen it.
Thank you so much! I actually talked about vivarium in the previous video. Such an eerie movie
I had to ctrl+F to get here, because that movie to me was deeply unsettling. I'm surprised that there were no snippets of it in this video
absolutely spectacular video. great work !
Thank you very much!
This video was so well made it honestly hurt a little, especially after mentions like Tchaikovsky, to not have mentioned Alejandro Jodorowski and especially his movie the Holy Mountain. I refuse to give spoilers but it ends with the same sentiment of this video only even more literally
Last night I had a really vivid dream about how I was trying to back my dads truck out of a boat ramp. The water came in, stalled the engine, then receded. Then I prayed it would fire back up and it did. Then the rear wheels got stuck in the mud, then the steering wheel disappeared!!! I was going to switch it to 4x4 before I was rudely awoken by the wife haha.
You did everything right, even mentioning the therm Limbo with Nostalgia and Dementia. Very well researched content you make here. Bravo
THE TEARS FOR THAT LAST LINE WOW THAT WAS SO BEAUTIFULLY WRAPPED UP thank u
🙏❤️
This is one of the most high quality RUclips videos I've ever watched. Honestly amazing 👏. Well done.
came to this video for some background entertainment while i worked, ended up teary-eyed. great video :)
I literally got chills at the end having gained this knowledge and all of the complex thoughts and ideas. At the end when all of it is closed back up very neatly into a few easy-to-unpack sentiments, with the heavenly, yet slightly melancholic soundtrack playing in the background just made me feel like i was myself floating away into a white nothingness, yet i wasn't scared or apprehensive.. it's weird and the only thing i could imagine it being similar to is the sensation of dying :D. (TLDR: video made me feel like dying xD)
I love that you mentioned Primer alongside major motion pictures.
That is by far my favorite sci fi/ time travel film.
Sometimes before sleep I wish myself to enjoy my dream, even ifI won;t remember it after waking up.
This feeling of dream evaporating from your memory as you wake up is so surreal, yet I experience it almost any time I think about it.
You can remember dreams better by keeping a dream journal and not moving (not even a twitch) for around 5-15 minutes after waking while trying to recall the dream. There's some memory techniques you can use during this time to pull from different memories to see if anything matches with the dreams
The dreamcore phenomenon is really fascinating. It perfectly captures this strange mix of nostalgia, surreal aesthetics and underlying unrest. Somehow it feels familiar, even though you can't quite place it - like a hazy dream you only half remember. What I find particularly exciting is how strongly it affects emotions, often without a clear context. It shows how powerful images and moods can be when they hit just the right mix of familiar and unfamiliar.
This is what i wanted...
+hey, btw I discovered this kind of genre thanks to your video about liminal space. And this one is pretty special to me
So amazing 🙏🙏
Lowkey one of the best video essays I’ve ever watched
Why does this only have 1k Views??? This deserves more
I know we have plenty, but we need more dreamcore media in the mainstream