The Zen teacher Chuang Tzu dreamed he was a butterfly. When he woke, he wondered, "Am I a man who dreamt about being a butterfly ? Or am I really a butterfly who now dreams about being a man?" This ...

Dreams sometimes feel just as real as the waking world, their themes and ideas bleeding into our everyday experiences. We sleep about a third of our lives away, give or take, and we have private ...

Real-world scientists have succeeded in intentionally changing the contents of a person’s dreams, even reducing the frequency of nightmares, but the process isn’t quite as cinematic as Christopher ...

In the movie Inception, Leonardo DiCaprio invades other people's dreams. He creates dreamscapes, steals information, and implants ideas. I thought the movie was brilliant. Of course, like any science ...

Back in 2010, Inception truly blew minds. Brains melted. And those audiences left the theater arguing about, among other things, whether the top actually fell or continued spinning. A work of ...

If movies are shared dreams, then Christopher Nolan is surely one of Hollywood’s most inventive dreamers, given the evidence of his commandingly clever “Inception.” Applying a vivid sense of ...

The story itself features an incredibly clever concept. No one had ever seen a film about corporate spies using government technology to steal secrets from people’s dreams. Some people may need to ...