TOP 10 Movies about Lucid Dreaming

In the following, I will list and describe the TOP 10 movies who are inspired by the art of lucid dreaming, or the ability to be fully aware of a dream of it’s conditions and to become the creator of your personal environment.

The Top 10 Movies Lucid Dreaming

The following movies are recommended in every case and are based on this wonderful and adventurous possibility of lucid dreaming.

Rank 10: Paprika (2006)

This is an anime movie who’s directly dealing with the art of lucid dreaming. Atsuko Chiba is a young scientist and in her dreams she lives a second life were her name is Paprika, who is a lucid psychotherapist for dreamers. In her everyday life, she is working on a device that is used to explore dreaming. Unfortunately, the device is stolen and used in such a way that mixes up the everyday world with the dream world. Thereupon, chaos breaks out, and it is the dreamy paprika who is needed, the second identity of Chiba.

Rank 9: Dreamscape (1984)

In an institute for lucid dreams, Alex (Dennis Quaid) works and helps people with nightmares and frees them from their nightly ailments. One day, the President of the United States travels very personally to free himself of his nightmares over nuclear warfare. At the same time, another highly talented lucid dreamer, Tommy, appears, who can hook himself into the dreams of other people without the help of a device. While Alex tries to help the president, Tommy plans to kill the latter in a dream.

Rank 8: Sucker Punch (2011)

The new law-abiding stepfather wants to get his all-heirarchs, Babydoll (Emily Browning) out of circulation, and makes sure that she is put into a mental hospital. Through bribery, the stepfather can make it lobotomized in at least five days. The mental hospital, however, turns out to be a disguised brothel, and its virginity is to be sold to the highest bidder. While she is struggling for her life and sexually abusing her, she invariably changes to an epic-Japanese trauma level that is symbolically linked to everyday life. She believes that if she solves the problems in the dream world, then she can flee from the institution ….

Rank 7: Forget Me Not (2004)

Joel (Jim Carrey) falls in love with Clementine (Kate Winslet), who is unexpectedly very well-known. Over time, the relationship develops to a very painful experience. He decides to delete his memories of his great love with a new technique. During the erasure process, he thinks better and tries with all effort to escape from his memories into alternative dream worlds so that the wonderful memories of the machine can not be found.

Rank 6: The Cell (2000)

Psychologist Catherine (Jennifer Lopez) is a creative psychologist who can deliberately, as a lucid dreamer, penetrate the dreams of other people to treat them. One day, the FBI arrives at her and wants her to enter the dreams of a serial murderer to find one of his well-hidden hostages. Thus she plunges into a bizarre dream world, and in the direct encounter with the villain she loses her ability to recognize the dream as such. One of the FBI agents recognizes the problem and follows her with the support of a machine in the dream world of the killer, to remind her that everything is just a dream.

Rank 5: eXistenZ (1999)

Allegra Geller (Jennifer Jason Leigh) is considered to be the world’s best programmer of the highly vivid virtual cyberspace movie ‘eXistenZ’. For the premiere of their play, ten people were invited to test their great work. With the support of an organic game console, you can project directly into the game with other players as in a lucid dream. During the game, someone suddenly pulls a gun and shoots at Allegra. She is wounded and escapes with Ted (Jude Law) to escape the assassin. On the way, she wants to bring him closer to the game, while Ted never wanted to open such a technique.

Rank 4: Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)

In the second world war the 10-year-old girl Ofelia (Ivana Baquero) does not really know how to deal with the political situation. Lost in thought, she discovers, near a ruin, a stone statue missing the right eye. She accidentally discovers it and puts it back into the statue. From this moment, reality and dream come together, and she suddenly receives a visit from a kind of fairy who shows her the way to Pan’s labyrinth. Pan recognizes in Atelia the reincarnation of a princess who represents her true self and wants her to return to her real identity and to recognize everyday reality as an illusion. But, to remember, she has to pass three exams …

Rank 3: Vanilla Sky (2001)

David (Tom Cruise) lives a life that leaves nothing to be desired: women, money, a Porsche and everything you can do in one Material world only. One day, Sofia (Penelope Cruz) emerges and he falls immortal in her. But an accident distorts his face, and from then on he sets all the handles in order to reverse this and regain his great love. So he discovers the path through a lucid trauma program, which gives him hope to return to his Sofia.

Rank 2: Waking Life (2001)

This film was shot with real actors, but afterwards worked with filters so that it looks like an animated dream-like film. With this technique in the background, the director tries to explore lucid dreaming as the main theme and is highly philosophical inspired. The plot describes a student who is approached by a car on his way home, from this moment onwards in his dreams and can not wake up again. He is constantly struggling to find out more about his dream situation, to discuss his situation, or at least to understand what has happened. The lucid dreaming is always a central theme and the actions turn out to be a philosophical road movie for dreamers. Rank

Rank 1: Inception (2010)

The following movie is probably one of the best films that has made the lucid dreaming so successful. This is where “Festions” are being worked out, which illuminate the dreamer about whether he is in the everyday life or in a dream, to me different dreams and time sequences u.v.m. An unforgettable film for real dreamers, in which the cathedral (Leonardo di Caprio) is a businessman and invades money into the dreams of influential people, using the Inception technique to influence their subconscious mind in the desired way. He developed this technique together with his wife, who concluded in her dream experiments that everyday life was also a dream and then chose suicide. Since she wanted her to follow her, she had previously directed the murder to Dom. Since that time, however, Dom has been working on seeing his children at last and is taking a very difficult assignment to do so. To this end, he brings together a team of lucid dreamers to penetrate the four levels of dreaming with the help of the dream-sharing, so that the target person splits a global business monopoly of the energy supply.

Of course, there are many more films that are about dreams, but I have chosen the most famous and probably the most successful. Another top 10 for other films is being planned…