Guru Guru Japna

Guru Guru Japna
Aur Sab Svapna,
Guru Guru Japna
Jagat Deergha Svapna.

- Songs Of Dream BY SWAMI SIVANANDA

8 ½ (1963)

As a movie about making a movie, Fellini's 8 1/2 seems an unlikely choice for the most coveted spot on this list,
but when you consider how much filmmaking owes to dreams, the choice begins to make sense. While critics and fans
alike were comparing Inception to sci-fi blockbusters like The Matrix and Avatar, Leonardo DiCaprio cited 8 1/2 as
its most comparable predecessor. Fellini dismisses the conventional narrative in favor of protagonist Guido Anselmi's
dreams, memories, and subjective relationships with his parents and friends. 8 1/2 is a reminder that real life is often
more like a dream than we even realize and movies are just narrativized versions of the dreams of their creators.

- By Zachary Goldbaum / Source: Filmjabber.com

Dreams have such an emotional nature

One, Adam Zeman, neurologist at the University of Edinburgh, explains how her mind might have created a likely story about
stimuli she might have sensed in other ways: a whinny from a neighboring horse, her own intuitive knowledge that the horse
looked old and unwell. Another, Mark Solms, a neuro-scientist and psychoanalyst, brings up how during dreams, the emotional
sector of brains is wildly alert, which is why our dreams have such an emotional nature.
- from:Can Dreams Predict the Future? By Karin Badt / Source: Huffington Post

Dreams are not about what they are about

If you dream about some particular subject it is not often that the dream is about that. Dreams speak in a deeply symbolic language. The unconscious mind tries to compare your dream to something else, which is similar. Its like writing a poem and saying that a group of ants were like machines that never stop. But you would never compare something to itself, for example: "That beautiful sunset was like a beautiful sunset". So whatever symbol your dream picks on it is most unlikely to be a symbol for itself.
- Source: The List Universe

The real truth is that nobody sleeps

The real truth is that nobody sleeps, dreams or wakes up, because there is no reality in these states.

Transcend the three states and rest in the fourth state of Turiya, the eternal bliss of Brahman, Satchidananda Svaroopa.

- Swami Sivananda

take on the dream genre

Inception couples innovative art-house sensibilities with blockbuster thrill tactics to take on the dream genre with
ingenuity and intelligence. - By Zachary Goldbaum / Source: Filmjabber.com

discover how dreams 'really' work

"We think we know a lot with our rational brain, but perhaps we know a lot more in our irrational brain." So Ms. Hardie,
already acclaimed as a science documentarian (working with stem cell researchers) contacted the foremost scientists working
on the brain today, to discover how dreams 'really' work.- By Karin Badt / Source: Huffington Post