Hello! :D
Drama Characterization for Follower of Right Hand Man
Character: Follower of Right Hand Man #1
Name: (Don’t know, so take it as Gary)
Childhood + Family + Social:
Gary’s father is a drug dealer and his mother died when he was only seven years old. Under the influence of his father, he began taking drugs at a young age of twelve and dropped out of school when he was only fourteen. He then formed a gang, which include his friends Kevin, Alex and Jeremy. They were all school dropouts and secretly sold drugs to people. Once, they were caught by the police and his friends cheated him and ran away from the police, leaving him alone. Being too young to be out into jail, he was sent to the Boy’s home. After a few years, he was released from the Boy’s home and met (Tom), the right hand man of the Mafia Leader. He then became one the Right Hand man’s follower, together with _____.
Education & work:
Gary has been working for (Tom) for more than five years. He works as Tom’s follower, together with _______, and works as Tom’s bodyguard, helper and “secretary”.
Character:
He is extremely loyal to his friends and will never betray them. After that long ago incident in which his friends betrayed him, he has learnt to recognize and identify who his true friends are, and will do anything for them. He is a helpful man. He is quiet and introverted, probably because he has not really been exposed to the outside world yet and does not have a lot of friends. He is faithful towards Tom, the Right Hand man, and feels really grateful towards Tom because he has been such a helpful and good man.
yeah... (: I can't think of a suitable name for his guy, so temporary name him as Gary first. :D
Regards,
Kai Lin :D
July 31, 2009
July 25, 2009
[Update] 23 July 2009
Hello, I've sent the freeze-frames to your emails. Wan Li has drawn them out on the computer so thank you WL!
These are the additional information regarding the freeze-frames:
1) Climax
- The doubles will be the one who are sleeping.
- The original people who play the characters will be in the battle.
2) Beginning
- Either stage left is dimmer (DRY ICE LOL) and stage right is brighter or,
- Flashing between both sides.
*Though lightings don't have to care yet. It will be a damn long time before we do have to..
3) Resolution
- Daughter and RHM kills ML in his sleep.
- Daughter and RHM hold hands and sit on the edge of the stage/jump off the stage/slip off the stage.
- ML lies on his bed, still.
- OG walks down the steps from behind the audience, goes up to stage, smile. /End.
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And these are what each of us will be playing in the freeze-frames:
Orphan Girl - Cheryl
Mafia Leader - Regine
Right-hand Man - Ling An
Daughter - Yan Ying
Double ML - Wan Li
Double RHM - Kai Lin
Double Daughter - Iffera
Follower - Shu Min
*Doubles will also double up as followers.
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We need 8 lines for the climax, beginning, and resolution, to make the scene come alive. I think we can scrape off with the resolution and see what NN has to say, meanwhile is anyone able to write for climax and beginning? Cause I think it would be pretty weird if WL and I have to do stuff again so yeahhhhh sincerely hope someone can update this entry with the 8 lines, by Sunday afternoon if possible. Thanks!
8 lines for Climax:
8 lines for resolution:
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And on a side note, thanks Cheryl for making the blog neater too haha. :D
-YY
These are the additional information regarding the freeze-frames:
1) Climax
- The doubles will be the one who are sleeping.
- The original people who play the characters will be in the battle.
2) Beginning
- Either stage left is dimmer (DRY ICE LOL) and stage right is brighter or,
- Flashing between both sides.
*Though lightings don't have to care yet. It will be a damn long time before we do have to..
3) Resolution
- Daughter and RHM kills ML in his sleep.
- Daughter and RHM hold hands and sit on the edge of the stage/jump off the stage/slip off the stage.
- ML lies on his bed, still.
- OG walks down the steps from behind the audience, goes up to stage, smile. /End.
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And these are what each of us will be playing in the freeze-frames:
Orphan Girl - Cheryl
Mafia Leader - Regine
Right-hand Man - Ling An
Daughter - Yan Ying
Double ML - Wan Li
Double RHM - Kai Lin
Double Daughter - Iffera
Follower - Shu Min
*Doubles will also double up as followers.
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We need 8 lines for the climax, beginning, and resolution, to make the scene come alive. I think we can scrape off with the resolution and see what NN has to say, meanwhile is anyone able to write for climax and beginning? Cause I think it would be pretty weird if WL and I have to do stuff again so yeahhhhh sincerely hope someone can update this entry with the 8 lines, by Sunday afternoon if possible. Thanks!
8 lines for Climax:
8 lines for resolution:
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And on a side note, thanks Cheryl for making the blog neater too haha. :D
-YY
July 22, 2009
[Characterisation] Daughter of Mafia Leader
Character: Daughter of Mafia Leader
Name: (tbc)
Age: (tbc)
Childhood: Because of her father's relations with the underworld, [name] was constantly surrounded by the underworld. She grew up in violence and by the time she was 10 she could hold a small gun. Needless to say she became quite skilled, but she never surpassed her father's abilities, she was not allowed to either way due to fears that she might break away from her father and backstab him one day. She was raised with a rather cold heart and she dreams for a place with sunflowers and hope.
Family: Her father is the mafia leader and he had a high position in the underworld. She never knew what happened to her mother, and she was the single child of the family. Over the years, the girl has grown closer to her father's right hand man and treats him like a bigger brother and much like family.
Social Circle: She gained quite some connections in the underworld with the help of her father, although it remained rather limited. She was home tutored and thus she was left with no friends around her, which made her a lonely child. This is further stressed by the fact that she is the only child in her family. She's pretty good friends with her father's right hand man, and is probably the only friend she ever has.
Education: She was home tutored, and besides normal education she was raised with violence and by the age of 10 she could wield a small gun. She has extensive knowledge regarding history and arms.
Career: Works in the underworld in the same organization as her father, the mafia leader. She keeps her profile pretty low and by day, she's a regular saleswoman. Her day job isn't exactly special, so as to not raise any suspicion.
Character: She's pretty lonely for beginners. Because of the way she was raised in violence, she grew up to become a girl with little heart. An ice heart, as some say, and [name] is rarely sensitive to other's feelings. She comes off as a heartless, rude woman, but inside she's really a girl who wants to lead a normal life and she dreams of a place filled with peace and hope instead of violence and death. She can be pretty optimistic, although most of the time she's pessimistic and rough with things due to her job.
Name: (tbc)
Age: (tbc)
Childhood: Because of her father's relations with the underworld, [name] was constantly surrounded by the underworld. She grew up in violence and by the time she was 10 she could hold a small gun. Needless to say she became quite skilled, but she never surpassed her father's abilities, she was not allowed to either way due to fears that she might break away from her father and backstab him one day. She was raised with a rather cold heart and she dreams for a place with sunflowers and hope.
Family: Her father is the mafia leader and he had a high position in the underworld. She never knew what happened to her mother, and she was the single child of the family. Over the years, the girl has grown closer to her father's right hand man and treats him like a bigger brother and much like family.
Social Circle: She gained quite some connections in the underworld with the help of her father, although it remained rather limited. She was home tutored and thus she was left with no friends around her, which made her a lonely child. This is further stressed by the fact that she is the only child in her family. She's pretty good friends with her father's right hand man, and is probably the only friend she ever has.
Education: She was home tutored, and besides normal education she was raised with violence and by the age of 10 she could wield a small gun. She has extensive knowledge regarding history and arms.
Career: Works in the underworld in the same organization as her father, the mafia leader. She keeps her profile pretty low and by day, she's a regular saleswoman. Her day job isn't exactly special, so as to not raise any suspicion.
Character: She's pretty lonely for beginners. Because of the way she was raised in violence, she grew up to become a girl with little heart. An ice heart, as some say, and [name] is rarely sensitive to other's feelings. She comes off as a heartless, rude woman, but inside she's really a girl who wants to lead a normal life and she dreams of a place filled with peace and hope instead of violence and death. She can be pretty optimistic, although most of the time she's pessimistic and rough with things due to her job.
[Characterisation] Little Orphan Girl
This characterisation is a little different from Iffera's because I didn't read her's beforehand so I kind of went along with whatever information I gathered. D
Character: Little Girl (Orphan)
Name: Sophie (tentative)
Age: 7 years
Childhood: Sophie's childhood was spent away with her adoring parents for all six years of her life. She found her ability to manipulate dreams extremely strange and tried to hide them, but in the process she had inflicted harm on her friends when she was in kindergarten and elementary school, which branded her a freak. She was of course, frightened by the prospect of having the ability, but she resigned to it in the end.
Then it came. At 7 years old she had been hiding in her parent's wardrobe, trying her best to not make a peep as she watched, traumatised by her parent's death before her very eyes, and Sophie was then scarred for life. However, she then harboured feelings and intents of revenge on the group which took her parent's lives and swore to avenge their deaths.
Family: Her parents, loving and adoring. They cared a lot for Sophie. Arriving from a pretty modest background, they did proper work and earned everything the hard way. However, they also had several connections which later led to the underworld and their relations with the mafia leader.
Social Circle: She was commonly branded a freak when young, and Sophie often was looked down upon of feared by her "friends". Some only got close enough to her to find out who she really was due to her strange abilities, only for her powers to act unnaturally and those who got close to her had terrible nights sleeping since then. It only made her reputation worse. She really only needed a friend.
Education: Brought up as a normal child in kindergarten and elementary school. When her parents were killed when she was 7, she dropped school as she wanted to avenge her parents death.
Career: Not applicable.
Character: She appears to be quiet, timid and soft spoken, but she's a python inside. She strikes when people least realise it. For someone her age, she's rather mature, but when her abilities first came to light she started to doubt herself for who she really was, and her self esteem was greatly affected then. She can be rather cold blooded, but she has an extremely soft spot inside, for she remains to be a child.
- Cheryl and Kai Lin
Also, I edited titles and added some labels to make things clearer. :)
July 19, 2009
[Characterisation] Mafia Leader
Character: Mafia Leader
Name:
Nickname:
Childhood — His childhood was spent mainly playing violent computer games. He took interest in the underworld and did extensive researches on them.
At the age of 10, his parents died in a car accident. Immediate freedom came to him and he was soon recruited into a Mafia for his determination and knowledge of the underworld. The mafia leader saw potential in him and groomed him well. From then on, he followed the Mafia wherever they went and followed whatever they did. He had tattoos, carried a knife of his own, used profanities and resorted to ruthless and brutal means to achieve what he wants. He was taught several fighting skills and put them to great use. At the age of 20, the mafia leader (like a father to him) was killed and he took over the team, vowing to avenge his death.
Family — The only child from a very wealthy family. His parents do not care about their son’s well-being and devote their time entirely to their company. After his parents died when he was 10, he was recruited into a Mafia. The mafia leader was like a father to him, cared for him, cultivated his interest in the underworld, and taught him useful fighting skills. He looked up and respected the leader, thanked him for all that he has done.
Social circle — Small network of friends, all from the underworld. He treated all the mafias from other teams as enemies. Even if they were supposedly “working partners”, he hated them to the core and wanted to killed all the other clans to be the very TOP.
Education – His education was mainly that about the underworld (famous Mafias in history) as well as fighting techniques.
Career — To secure his position as the Mafia leader, he sought ways to eliminate anyone who disobeyed him. Once, he found a couple who possessed a unique ability to control the dreams of others. By manipulating dreams, they can cause one to have nightmares or sleepwalk, subsequently doing harmful things to other people or themselves in a subconscious state. Thus he wanted them to work for him. They did not agree to it, and he killed them for defying his orders, orphaning a girl in the process.
Character — He was dictatorial wanted to rule others. He wanted to be the top and most superior, killed anyone who posed a threat to him, and wanted to take full control over the underworld/world. Revengeful, power-seeking, determined, headstrong, ruthless, 杀人不眨眼.
-Yan Ying & Wan Li
Name:
Nickname:
Childhood — His childhood was spent mainly playing violent computer games. He took interest in the underworld and did extensive researches on them.
At the age of 10, his parents died in a car accident. Immediate freedom came to him and he was soon recruited into a Mafia for his determination and knowledge of the underworld. The mafia leader saw potential in him and groomed him well. From then on, he followed the Mafia wherever they went and followed whatever they did. He had tattoos, carried a knife of his own, used profanities and resorted to ruthless and brutal means to achieve what he wants. He was taught several fighting skills and put them to great use. At the age of 20, the mafia leader (like a father to him) was killed and he took over the team, vowing to avenge his death.
Family — The only child from a very wealthy family. His parents do not care about their son’s well-being and devote their time entirely to their company. After his parents died when he was 10, he was recruited into a Mafia. The mafia leader was like a father to him, cared for him, cultivated his interest in the underworld, and taught him useful fighting skills. He looked up and respected the leader, thanked him for all that he has done.
Social circle — Small network of friends, all from the underworld. He treated all the mafias from other teams as enemies. Even if they were supposedly “working partners”, he hated them to the core and wanted to killed all the other clans to be the very TOP.
Education – His education was mainly that about the underworld (famous Mafias in history) as well as fighting techniques.
Career — To secure his position as the Mafia leader, he sought ways to eliminate anyone who disobeyed him. Once, he found a couple who possessed a unique ability to control the dreams of others. By manipulating dreams, they can cause one to have nightmares or sleepwalk, subsequently doing harmful things to other people or themselves in a subconscious state. Thus he wanted them to work for him. They did not agree to it, and he killed them for defying his orders, orphaning a girl in the process.
Character — He was dictatorial wanted to rule others. He wanted to be the top and most superior, killed anyone who posed a threat to him, and wanted to take full control over the underworld/world. Revengeful, power-seeking, determined, headstrong, ruthless, 杀人不眨眼.
-Yan Ying & Wan Li
July 18, 2009
[Characterisation] Right-hand Man
this is the edited characterisation of the right-hand man!
Education & work
Tom probably has a low level of education. Having lost his parents at a young age, he did not have anybody to guide him through life and soon fell into bad company. As a result he dropped out of school at just 15 years old. He almost got caught committing burglary but got out of trouble thanks to the mafia leader. Ever since then, he had been working for him and soon became the mafia leader’s most trusted person.
Character
He is fiercely loyal and faithful to people who help him. He is very trustable and reliable, a reason why he became the mafia leader’s right hand man. He has a soft spot for children, especially orphans as he was made an orphan at a very young age. He is fearful of cars, mainly because he lost his parents through a car accident. He is observant, constantly taking notice of people around him. He is also very skilled in judging a person’s character.
Childhood/Social/Family
Tom had a short-lived happy childhood. He lost his parents at a young age and was often chided by other children. He had quite a deprived childhood, having become an orphan at a young age. Tom did not have any other family and lived on his own with a friend of his parents after they died. However, that friend left Tom after a few years, taking some money from the house with him. The incident caused Tom to think that there wasn’t anyone in the world that did not live for benefits. He also did not know how to interact with other people and was left to live in solitude. As he grew up, the only friends he made were gangs that he met. He had no true friends until he had met the mafia leader and grew up to be his right-hand man.
*we're not sure what name would fit his role...so we put Tom first. any suggestions?
regine(:
July 17, 2009
[Characterisation] Little Orphan Girl
Here's the characterization for the little orphan girl.
ABOUT:
The character is female child, most probably an orphan, who is named Revera. She is probably eleven or twelve years old in the present. She currently lives in Jarflit Orphanage in the outskirts of London.
BACKGROUND/PAST:
She used to live in a farm with her parents, who died when she was about five or six years old as they were killed by the mafia leader. Thus, she has no family, like the main character of Beyond Dream’s Door.
APPERANCE:
She is not very good-looking, quite a skinny and small-sized person. Therefore, she is always bullied by other bigger children in the orphanage. However, farmwork that she did when she was younger made her fit and agile.
ABILITIES:
She has an amazing memory as she still remembers the person, either the mafia leader himself or his accomplice(s), who killed them. She also possesses an unique ability to control the dreams of others. By manipulating dreams, she can cause one to have nightmares or sleepwalk. She found out about this special ability when she was about nine years old.
In the orphanage, when she slept at night, she could see and experience the dreams of another boy in a room next to the one she was sleeping in. Slowly, for the next few years, she learnt how to control this ability, enabling her to look at anyone’s dreams at will.
Manipulating dreams was mastered at the age of ten where she wanted to get back at a boy who bullied her in the orphanage. Later on, when she went back to her farm house to search for clues on her parents’ murderer(s), she found out that her ability [see below] was inherited from her parents.
CHARACTER:
She realises that the ability she has is a double-edged sword and she promised herself that it would be used for decent reasons. She chooses not to rely too much on her ability to get her way or what she wants. She knows what is right and wrong, proving that she is quite mature for her age.
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She is also very determined as even though the chances of finding her parents’ murderers are slim, she fervently searches for clues and manages to find the mafia leader and sneaks her way into the mafia leader’s home base. She realises that the mafia leader actually wanted her parents to work for him due to their incredible abilities.
But her parents were morally upright people and moreover, they actually stumbled across the mafia’s home base by accident-mistaking it for a vegetable warehouse. So, the mafia had to kill them for fear of getting caught by the police.
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Yeah, that's it. The last part about why her parents were killed, i kind of made that up. :D Oh and I changed the age of getting back at the mafia from seven years old to about elven or twelve. Yeah.
Iffera~ :D
ABOUT:
The character is female child, most probably an orphan, who is named Revera. She is probably eleven or twelve years old in the present. She currently lives in Jarflit Orphanage in the outskirts of London.
BACKGROUND/PAST:
She used to live in a farm with her parents, who died when she was about five or six years old as they were killed by the mafia leader. Thus, she has no family, like the main character of Beyond Dream’s Door.
APPERANCE:
She is not very good-looking, quite a skinny and small-sized person. Therefore, she is always bullied by other bigger children in the orphanage. However, farmwork that she did when she was younger made her fit and agile.
ABILITIES:
She has an amazing memory as she still remembers the person, either the mafia leader himself or his accomplice(s), who killed them. She also possesses an unique ability to control the dreams of others. By manipulating dreams, she can cause one to have nightmares or sleepwalk. She found out about this special ability when she was about nine years old.
In the orphanage, when she slept at night, she could see and experience the dreams of another boy in a room next to the one she was sleeping in. Slowly, for the next few years, she learnt how to control this ability, enabling her to look at anyone’s dreams at will.
Manipulating dreams was mastered at the age of ten where she wanted to get back at a boy who bullied her in the orphanage. Later on, when she went back to her farm house to search for clues on her parents’ murderer(s), she found out that her ability [see below] was inherited from her parents.
CHARACTER:
She realises that the ability she has is a double-edged sword and she promised herself that it would be used for decent reasons. She chooses not to rely too much on her ability to get her way or what she wants. She knows what is right and wrong, proving that she is quite mature for her age.
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She is also very determined as even though the chances of finding her parents’ murderers are slim, she fervently searches for clues and manages to find the mafia leader and sneaks her way into the mafia leader’s home base. She realises that the mafia leader actually wanted her parents to work for him due to their incredible abilities.
But her parents were morally upright people and moreover, they actually stumbled across the mafia’s home base by accident-mistaking it for a vegetable warehouse. So, the mafia had to kill them for fear of getting caught by the police.
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Yeah, that's it. The last part about why her parents were killed, i kind of made that up. :D Oh and I changed the age of getting back at the mafia from seven years old to about elven or twelve. Yeah.
Iffera~ :D
July 13, 2009
[Update] 13 July 2009
1) Main Topic - Dreams and Reality/The Underworld (muahahaha I love this man)
2) Protagonist - Mafia Leader
- We need to find a name for this guy. TAG!
3) Antagonist - Little Girl (Orphan)
- Tag name.
4) Protagonist Supporter 1 - Mafia Leader's Right-hand Man
- Tag name.
5) Protagonist Supporter 2 - Mafia Leader's Daughter
- Tag name.
*Both protagonist supporters 1 and 2 become antagonist supporters in the end, after their dreams get manipulated by the little girl.
So here's an outline of the plot we came up with today:
Mafia Leader killed Little Girl's parents when she was an infant, causing her to be orphaned. When she turned 7, she found out who the murderer was, tracked his Right-hand Man down, and made use (through the manipulation dreams) of him to get close to the Mafia Leader.
After she was successful, she manipulated the dreams of the Mafia Leader's Daughter as well, causing her to appear in the same dream as the Right-hand Man. The orphan then conspired up a plan to use both her victims to harm the Mafia Leader, and dreams and reality finally merge into one. Undesirable consequences happen, ultimately to the extreme disadvantage of the Mafia Leader.
*Since we don't want the 我问天-ish kind of play, so what other undesirable consequences can happen to the mafia leader? Besides killing him. Tag suggestions!
I think that's about all. Amend your characterizations accordingly and update the blog with it by Saturday night. Is is okay? (:
2) Protagonist - Mafia Leader
- We need to find a name for this guy. TAG!
3) Antagonist - Little Girl (Orphan)
- Tag name.
4) Protagonist Supporter 1 - Mafia Leader's Right-hand Man
- Tag name.
5) Protagonist Supporter 2 - Mafia Leader's Daughter
- Tag name.
*Both protagonist supporters 1 and 2 become antagonist supporters in the end, after their dreams get manipulated by the little girl.
So here's an outline of the plot we came up with today:
Mafia Leader killed Little Girl's parents when she was an infant, causing her to be orphaned. When she turned 7, she found out who the murderer was, tracked his Right-hand Man down, and made use (through the manipulation dreams) of him to get close to the Mafia Leader.
After she was successful, she manipulated the dreams of the Mafia Leader's Daughter as well, causing her to appear in the same dream as the Right-hand Man. The orphan then conspired up a plan to use both her victims to harm the Mafia Leader, and dreams and reality finally merge into one. Undesirable consequences happen, ultimately to the extreme disadvantage of the Mafia Leader.
*Since we don't want the 我问天-ish kind of play, so what other undesirable consequences can happen to the mafia leader? Besides killing him. Tag suggestions!
I think that's about all. Amend your characterizations accordingly and update the blog with it by Saturday night. Is is okay? (:
July 12, 2009
[Story] #19
Hello ppl, I dun really noe how to use blogs so I hope this turns out okay...anyway, the following is a story which the website claims is a real experience. And I hope no one else has posted this same story (: Anyways, here goes:
19) Dreams Turn Real
It started off as a nightmare. But this isn't me asking for a dream interpretation, because it gets creepier. One night, I fell asleep and had a strange dream. I was in my living room, but none of the furniture was there. I looked around, feeling confused. A great flash of light came from all the windows, and then I started hearing different voices calling my name from all over the room. Then, someone comes behind me and pushes my shoulders, but then I wake up before I fall.
At first, I thought it was just a nightmare, right? But I've been having this dream for three weeks, every night. And then a few days ago, I felt someone watching me.
I was alone in my house, and I was emailing my friend on the laptop. Then, I heard a giggle coming from my room. So, as anyone would do, I went upstairs to try to see if someone/something was there.
When I got upstairs, no one was there, but I heard the laugh again. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw a streak of color flash out of the window, which was open. (I'm realizing now that I never opened the window.)
As quickly as I could, I left my room and started walking down the stairs. But something pushed me - and I mean push, I could feel the hands on my back - and I fell down the stairs. I'm recovering from a sprained wrist.
Ever since then, I feel like something is watching me. The dream went away, but others have come in its place, some scarier than before. Usually, they involve someone calling my name and begging for help, but I can't see them except for a flash of color. When I wake up from these dreams, I'm completely tired and I can't go back to sleep. I got about ten hours of sleep last week, and I'm not kidding.
It's really scary though, and here's the part I need help with: am I doing something beyond my control? Can I see spirits, or am I being haunted by one? Or is this my imagination?
Please, if you know anything, answer. I'm only fourteen, and I'm starting to think that I'm insane. Anything is helpful.
19) Dreams Turn Real
It started off as a nightmare. But this isn't me asking for a dream interpretation, because it gets creepier. One night, I fell asleep and had a strange dream. I was in my living room, but none of the furniture was there. I looked around, feeling confused. A great flash of light came from all the windows, and then I started hearing different voices calling my name from all over the room. Then, someone comes behind me and pushes my shoulders, but then I wake up before I fall.
At first, I thought it was just a nightmare, right? But I've been having this dream for three weeks, every night. And then a few days ago, I felt someone watching me.
I was alone in my house, and I was emailing my friend on the laptop. Then, I heard a giggle coming from my room. So, as anyone would do, I went upstairs to try to see if someone/something was there.
When I got upstairs, no one was there, but I heard the laugh again. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw a streak of color flash out of the window, which was open. (I'm realizing now that I never opened the window.)
As quickly as I could, I left my room and started walking down the stairs. But something pushed me - and I mean push, I could feel the hands on my back - and I fell down the stairs. I'm recovering from a sprained wrist.
Ever since then, I feel like something is watching me. The dream went away, but others have come in its place, some scarier than before. Usually, they involve someone calling my name and begging for help, but I can't see them except for a flash of color. When I wake up from these dreams, I'm completely tired and I can't go back to sleep. I got about ten hours of sleep last week, and I'm not kidding.
It's really scary though, and here's the part I need help with: am I doing something beyond my control? Can I see spirits, or am I being haunted by one? Or is this my imagination?
Please, if you know anything, answer. I'm only fourteen, and I'm starting to think that I'm insane. Anything is helpful.
[Story] #18
Can Dreams cause us to die?
1. I suppose no one who's ever died during a dream has ever come back to tell us, so how could we really know?
Every once in a while I have these dreams where I'm walking down a path and all of a sudden I trip over a rock or a pothole I didn't see. I wake up with a huge jerk and feel like I've actually fallen down.
I've heard some people say that is how the body wakes itself up again when it starts to have dangerously low blood pressure or breathing rates.
2. I've had the "trip" and awake with a jerk before as mentioned.
However, I've fallen from very, very high places in dreams and did not wake up before impact. I "died" in my dream..and woke when I died in my dream. I've had this happen a few times from various "dream injuries", falling, being shot, etc.
Now that isn't to say it couldn't happen. My guess would be the fright, sensation of the dream maybe causing a heart attack or something...
For what its worth - sometimes I've been "injured" in a dream, but not killed and woken up sore before.
I can tell you that dieing in a dream *is* weird. You wake up like, "whoa! where am I? Oh..whew..I'm in bed..and still alive."
3. I could see someone dying during a dream, if they began to act out their dream while they remained sleeping. But, I don't know what you could technically chalk an incident like that up to, the dream, or acting (sleep walking) out the dream.
Maybe if the dream was so forcefully shocking and mentally damaging, the brain were to flip out, but i don't really know.
I've had the falling dream a few times, but i've always woken up befor I hit the ground. It would always cause me to wake up sweating and kinda scared.
I've never awaken with any physical damage that I received in a dream though.
Reminds me of how scared i was to sleep, even to dream after watching those Freddie Kruger movies.
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Regards,
Kai Lin (:
1. I suppose no one who's ever died during a dream has ever come back to tell us, so how could we really know?
Every once in a while I have these dreams where I'm walking down a path and all of a sudden I trip over a rock or a pothole I didn't see. I wake up with a huge jerk and feel like I've actually fallen down.
I've heard some people say that is how the body wakes itself up again when it starts to have dangerously low blood pressure or breathing rates.
2. I've had the "trip" and awake with a jerk before as mentioned.
However, I've fallen from very, very high places in dreams and did not wake up before impact. I "died" in my dream..and woke when I died in my dream. I've had this happen a few times from various "dream injuries", falling, being shot, etc.
Now that isn't to say it couldn't happen. My guess would be the fright, sensation of the dream maybe causing a heart attack or something...
For what its worth - sometimes I've been "injured" in a dream, but not killed and woken up sore before.
I can tell you that dieing in a dream *is* weird. You wake up like, "whoa! where am I? Oh..whew..I'm in bed..and still alive."
3. I could see someone dying during a dream, if they began to act out their dream while they remained sleeping. But, I don't know what you could technically chalk an incident like that up to, the dream, or acting (sleep walking) out the dream.
Maybe if the dream was so forcefully shocking and mentally damaging, the brain were to flip out, but i don't really know.
I've had the falling dream a few times, but i've always woken up befor I hit the ground. It would always cause me to wake up sweating and kinda scared.
I've never awaken with any physical damage that I received in a dream though.
Reminds me of how scared i was to sleep, even to dream after watching those Freddie Kruger movies.
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Regards,
Kai Lin (:
[Update]
Hello, I've emailed Mr Ng our blog URL since we already have 17 stories. Haha well done well done. :D
I've edited some of them though (nope not the content), just the titles and fonts and stuff to make it neater. Hope you guys don't mind. (:
- Yan Ying
I've edited some of them though (nope not the content), just the titles and fonts and stuff to make it neater. Hope you guys don't mind. (:
- Yan Ying
July 11, 2009
Tagboard
Hey yy can you add a tagboard so we can like comment on the posts more easily?? Cos like only you can add gadgets to the blog (i realised after trying haha :D ) Thanks! :D
-Shu Min
-Shu Min
[Story] #17
this is quite cool :D
17) Dream Vs Real Life
I have had different things happen to me over the years that seem to be pointing me in a direction. I had a dream a few nights ago that has drove me to look for some answers. Without going into details to start with, I had a dream that I felt and saw being in an airplane and it being dark and then feeling the fear as I felt the feeling of falling.
There are other things in the dream that I recall that are clear to me that I am not sure how to talk about on here as of yet. To my complete shock, as I walked around the next morning after the dream, my son was on the computer at the table, and he says, "Hey, did you see there was a plane crash last night?"
My heart about came out of my chest. I thought NO WAY, but as minutes went by I told my family about my dream. I keep thinking I must have felt, or did I feel a person on that plane that night? I keep thinking about the reasons I'd be someone that would have this gift. It seems like I should do something about it but I have no idea what to do. It all seems too unreal and I mean no disrespect to any survivors but I have too many unanswered questions.
If anyone has any info about the possibilities of someone's dreams being someone else's life, please tell me where to look to find those answers.
Source: http://www.psychic-experiences.com/real-psychic-story.php?story=2804
regine(:
17) Dream Vs Real Life
I have had different things happen to me over the years that seem to be pointing me in a direction. I had a dream a few nights ago that has drove me to look for some answers. Without going into details to start with, I had a dream that I felt and saw being in an airplane and it being dark and then feeling the fear as I felt the feeling of falling.
There are other things in the dream that I recall that are clear to me that I am not sure how to talk about on here as of yet. To my complete shock, as I walked around the next morning after the dream, my son was on the computer at the table, and he says, "Hey, did you see there was a plane crash last night?"
My heart about came out of my chest. I thought NO WAY, but as minutes went by I told my family about my dream. I keep thinking I must have felt, or did I feel a person on that plane that night? I keep thinking about the reasons I'd be someone that would have this gift. It seems like I should do something about it but I have no idea what to do. It all seems too unreal and I mean no disrespect to any survivors but I have too many unanswered questions.
If anyone has any info about the possibilities of someone's dreams being someone else's life, please tell me where to look to find those answers.
Source: http://www.psychic-experiences.com/real-psychic-story.php?story=2804
regine(:
[Story] #16
it's quite...retarded. hahahaha.
16) Adam's Dream
Adam is 19 years old and a few months ago he had a dream about a girl; a dream that made him pretty much famous. Here's his story...
It's been three and a half months since I had the dream that changed my life.
In this dream, I was shopping for a new razor when, from behind the toothpaste section, I saw an elderly woman get bitten by someone on the neck. I was terrified and quickly ran back to my house.
I hurried up the stairs to my room and there, in front of me, I saw what I thought was a zombie. I got ready to defend myself with a heavy book, when the figure turned around to reveal the most stunning girl I had ever seen.
'Hello," she said, "I'm so glad you're here".
Then she kissed me and I woke up with this incredible feeling. It sounds weird to say, but it felt like love. That's when I began the search for the girl of my dreams...
I immediately drew a picture of her and set up a website; I figured it was the best way to get the story out to as many people as possible and increase my chance of actually finding her.
Living the dream.
Over the first month, my site was featured on some small blogs, but then things started getting crazy. There was an article about it in a small local paper and from there it went national to the Daily Mirror.
After this, I was on GMTV, Lorraine Kelly, Richard and Judy and Graham Norton. I've been in a few magazines, including: Chat, Pick Me Up and Reveal, and on radio shows, such as BBC Five Live and XFM. I've also been in loads of blogs and student papers.
Unexpected.
It was never my intention to become famous; it's very odd when people come up to me in the street and say "are you that weird dream guy?". Once, I got asked for my autograph in a supermarket!
The search continues.
I didn't expect to have such a big response; after all, this is a genuine search for love, but I suppose people have to know who I am for me to find her. If I look like a nutter on national TV, that's fine. As long as I'm happy in the long run.
Fingers crossed I'll find her. I'm waiting for my passport to come through so I can continue searching for her around the world.
In five words I'd describe the girl of my dreams as: 'glasses', 'Kate'-'Nash'-'hair' and... 'perfect'.The first thing I'll do when I see her is get down on one knee and propose. I haven't got the ring yet, but I've ordered it.
True Love.
From all of this, I've learnt that people still believe in romance, that love still exists and that people are really hard to track down if you can't draw.
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/switch/slink/sexlovelife/reallife/dream.shtml
regine(:
16) Adam's Dream
Adam is 19 years old and a few months ago he had a dream about a girl; a dream that made him pretty much famous. Here's his story...
It's been three and a half months since I had the dream that changed my life.
In this dream, I was shopping for a new razor when, from behind the toothpaste section, I saw an elderly woman get bitten by someone on the neck. I was terrified and quickly ran back to my house.
I hurried up the stairs to my room and there, in front of me, I saw what I thought was a zombie. I got ready to defend myself with a heavy book, when the figure turned around to reveal the most stunning girl I had ever seen.
'Hello," she said, "I'm so glad you're here".
Then she kissed me and I woke up with this incredible feeling. It sounds weird to say, but it felt like love. That's when I began the search for the girl of my dreams...
I immediately drew a picture of her and set up a website; I figured it was the best way to get the story out to as many people as possible and increase my chance of actually finding her.
Living the dream.
Over the first month, my site was featured on some small blogs, but then things started getting crazy. There was an article about it in a small local paper and from there it went national to the Daily Mirror.
After this, I was on GMTV, Lorraine Kelly, Richard and Judy and Graham Norton. I've been in a few magazines, including: Chat, Pick Me Up and Reveal, and on radio shows, such as BBC Five Live and XFM. I've also been in loads of blogs and student papers.
Unexpected.
It was never my intention to become famous; it's very odd when people come up to me in the street and say "are you that weird dream guy?". Once, I got asked for my autograph in a supermarket!
The search continues.
I didn't expect to have such a big response; after all, this is a genuine search for love, but I suppose people have to know who I am for me to find her. If I look like a nutter on national TV, that's fine. As long as I'm happy in the long run.
Fingers crossed I'll find her. I'm waiting for my passport to come through so I can continue searching for her around the world.
In five words I'd describe the girl of my dreams as: 'glasses', 'Kate'-'Nash'-'hair' and... 'perfect'.The first thing I'll do when I see her is get down on one knee and propose. I haven't got the ring yet, but I've ordered it.
True Love.
From all of this, I've learnt that people still believe in romance, that love still exists and that people are really hard to track down if you can't draw.
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/switch/slink/sexlovelife/reallife/dream.shtml
regine(:
[Story] #11 to #15 (Movies on Dream and Reality)
Hey everyone! I've got some movies here on Dream and Reality.
11) The Cell
Serial killer Carl Stargher has been captured at last, but a neurological seizure has rendered him comatose, and FBI agent Peter Novak has no way to determine the location of Stargher's latest and still-living victim. To probe the secrets contained in Stargher's traumatized psyche, the FBI recruits psychologist Catherine Deane, who has mastered a new technology that allows her to enter the mind of another person. What she finds in Stargher's head is a theater of the grotesque, which, as envisioned by the director of the film, is a smorgasbord of the surreal that borrows liberally from the Brothers Quay, Czech animator Jan Svankmajer, Hieronymous Bosch, Salvador Dali, and a surplus of other cannibalized sources.
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12) Dreamscape
Alex Gardner is a talented young psychic who's frittering his gifts away betting on the ponies. That is, until he's coerced by his old pal and mentor Dr. Paul Novotny into taking part in a dream research project in which his psychic abilities make him indispensable. The project concerns "dreamlinking," whereby talented individuals like Alex hook up via electrodes and project themselves into some troubled subject's nightmares, in which they not only observe but participate in the dream, hopefully effecting some remedy.
Alex is by nature a feckless guy, a charismatic scoundrel sporting a Cheshire cat's grin. But he warms easily to his new role as dream-dwelling psychotherapist, having a core of decency. Not so his nemesis, Tommy Ray Glatman, a dreamlink prodigy and pawn of Bob Blair, who runs the research project for the government (he's described as the "head of covert intelligence". Blair is worried about the President, whose nightmares of nuclear holocaust cause him to escalate disarmament talks with the Russians, much to Blair's dismay, being your basic evil, slick, smarmy covert kind of guy. Turns out Blair's real aim is to use the project to train dreamlink assassins, his star pupil being psycho Tommy Ray and his test case the President. Only Alex is there to stop them.
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13) Field of Dreams
Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella, who hears the mysterious words "If you build it, he will come," is compelled to build a baseball diamond in the middle of his cornfield. His wife (Amy Madigan) supports the wild idea, but a reclusive novelist (modeled after J.D. Salinger and played by James Earl Jones) is not so easily persuaded. The idealistic farmer is either a visionary or a deluded fool, but his persistence is rewarded when spirits from baseball's past begin appearing on the ball field. Past and present intermingle in the person of "Moonlight Graham" (superbly played by Burt Lancaster), an unknown player who sacrificed his dreams of baseball glory for a dignified life as a small-town physician ... but what all of this means is unclear until the film's memorably heartfelt conclusion.
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14) Vanilla Sky
David Aames recently has become owner of his deceased father's publishing company, and begins to enjoy a wealthy lifestyle. David, through his friend Brian Shelby, is introduced to Sofia Serrano, and the two begin to flirt and become closer. When David's former girlfriend, Julianna Gianni, discovers this, she becomes extremely jealous. One day, she offers David a ride, but purposely crashes her car at high speed off a bridge; Julianna dies while David survives, though his face is scarred up so badly he wears a mask to hide the embarrassment from the world so that people will not stare or look at his face. On an evening out with Brian and Sofia after the crash, David becomes extremely intoxicated, much to Sofia's displeasure, and she and Brian leave David to wallow on a sidewalk. The next morning Sofia returns to help David back onto his feet, they begin to date steadily, and David has cosmetic surgery that restores his face to its appearance before the crash.
Though David's life seems perfect, he finds oddities about it, such as a completely empty Times Square. At times, he finds himself hallucinating, his face reverting to before the plastic surgery. A strange man appears at various locations to tell David he has the power to control the world. After one hallucination episode, David goes to Sofia's apartment to find Julianna there, and that all the old photos and pictures of David and Sofia have been replaced with Julianna. In a fit of rage, David kills Julianna by suffocation. He is arrested and put into prison, placed under the psychological care of Dr. Curtis McCabe. David, finding himself suffering from a form of amnesia, attempts to recount the recent events to Dr. McCabe, and the two discover that there may be a connection between David and a company known as "Life Extension", who place clinically-dead patients into cryogenic chambers to awaken in the future when cures may be available. David and Mr. McCabe visit the company, who explain that they place their patients into a "Lucid Dream" state while in the cryogenics company. David recognizes that the reality he is in is his own Lucid Dream, and calls for Tech Support.
David escapes from the company office to find the mysterious man directing him to an elevator. As they rise to the top of an impossibly tall building, the man, revealing himself to be the tech support, explains David's true past: after passing out drunk on the sidewalk, he never saw Sofia again. Due to his depression, David sought the services of Life Extension, wishing to start the Lucid Dream the morning after the drunken incident, and to live under the "vanilla sky" his mother always talked about; he then committed suicide so that he may be placed in the cryogenic system, where he has been for the past 150 years. While David was experiencing the Lucid Dream, a malfunction of the system caused the dream to become a nightmare, merging Sofia and Julianna's personas and creating people, such as Dr. McCabe, out of his past memories. At the roof of the building, the man offers David a choice, to either be reinserted into the corrected Lucid Dream as to be together with Sofia forever, or to opt to wake up though this requires a leap of faith off the building. David opts to be awakened so that he can live a real life, and he takes a few last moments to say goodbye to the Dream versions of Sofia and Brian, then jumps off the building, his memories flashing through his eyes as he falls. Just as he hits the ground, a voice tells David to wake up, the film briefly focuses on his closed eye opening onto the real world.
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15) Dreams
The film consists of several dreams based on Kurosawa's own, throughout his life.
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Um, a few things to note, i don't think the movies "Requiem for a Dream" and "What Dreams May Come"have what we want. But you can take a look at their plots anyway.
Sources:FilmSchoolRejects.comTop 5 Movies About Dreams ,
Wikipedia-Vanilla Sky, Wikipedia-Dreams.
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Oh, i think that dreams may not be those that you have when you sleep, but also like your aspirations. Maybe like someone dreams to be a dancer or something but can't as in reality, he or she is poor. Dreams can be daydreams also, i guess? Like you try to shun away from the cruelties of reality and daydream of a rich life? Something like that? :D
Did you know that Stephanie Meyer wrote Twilight as the plot came to her in a dream? Another author, Nancy Yi Fan, dreamt of birds fighting against each other and wrote the book "Swordbird"? haha,yeah
Whew! All that searching in one night!
Iffera :D
"The powerless must have a dream or two, dreams that can break walls, dreams that can go through walls as if they are powerless"-When Dreams Travel by Githa Hariharan.
11) The Cell
Serial killer Carl Stargher has been captured at last, but a neurological seizure has rendered him comatose, and FBI agent Peter Novak has no way to determine the location of Stargher's latest and still-living victim. To probe the secrets contained in Stargher's traumatized psyche, the FBI recruits psychologist Catherine Deane, who has mastered a new technology that allows her to enter the mind of another person. What she finds in Stargher's head is a theater of the grotesque, which, as envisioned by the director of the film, is a smorgasbord of the surreal that borrows liberally from the Brothers Quay, Czech animator Jan Svankmajer, Hieronymous Bosch, Salvador Dali, and a surplus of other cannibalized sources.
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12) Dreamscape
Alex Gardner is a talented young psychic who's frittering his gifts away betting on the ponies. That is, until he's coerced by his old pal and mentor Dr. Paul Novotny into taking part in a dream research project in which his psychic abilities make him indispensable. The project concerns "dreamlinking," whereby talented individuals like Alex hook up via electrodes and project themselves into some troubled subject's nightmares, in which they not only observe but participate in the dream, hopefully effecting some remedy.
Alex is by nature a feckless guy, a charismatic scoundrel sporting a Cheshire cat's grin. But he warms easily to his new role as dream-dwelling psychotherapist, having a core of decency. Not so his nemesis, Tommy Ray Glatman, a dreamlink prodigy and pawn of Bob Blair, who runs the research project for the government (he's described as the "head of covert intelligence". Blair is worried about the President, whose nightmares of nuclear holocaust cause him to escalate disarmament talks with the Russians, much to Blair's dismay, being your basic evil, slick, smarmy covert kind of guy. Turns out Blair's real aim is to use the project to train dreamlink assassins, his star pupil being psycho Tommy Ray and his test case the President. Only Alex is there to stop them.
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13) Field of Dreams
Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella, who hears the mysterious words "If you build it, he will come," is compelled to build a baseball diamond in the middle of his cornfield. His wife (Amy Madigan) supports the wild idea, but a reclusive novelist (modeled after J.D. Salinger and played by James Earl Jones) is not so easily persuaded. The idealistic farmer is either a visionary or a deluded fool, but his persistence is rewarded when spirits from baseball's past begin appearing on the ball field. Past and present intermingle in the person of "Moonlight Graham" (superbly played by Burt Lancaster), an unknown player who sacrificed his dreams of baseball glory for a dignified life as a small-town physician ... but what all of this means is unclear until the film's memorably heartfelt conclusion.
--
14) Vanilla Sky
David Aames recently has become owner of his deceased father's publishing company, and begins to enjoy a wealthy lifestyle. David, through his friend Brian Shelby, is introduced to Sofia Serrano, and the two begin to flirt and become closer. When David's former girlfriend, Julianna Gianni, discovers this, she becomes extremely jealous. One day, she offers David a ride, but purposely crashes her car at high speed off a bridge; Julianna dies while David survives, though his face is scarred up so badly he wears a mask to hide the embarrassment from the world so that people will not stare or look at his face. On an evening out with Brian and Sofia after the crash, David becomes extremely intoxicated, much to Sofia's displeasure, and she and Brian leave David to wallow on a sidewalk. The next morning Sofia returns to help David back onto his feet, they begin to date steadily, and David has cosmetic surgery that restores his face to its appearance before the crash.
Though David's life seems perfect, he finds oddities about it, such as a completely empty Times Square. At times, he finds himself hallucinating, his face reverting to before the plastic surgery. A strange man appears at various locations to tell David he has the power to control the world. After one hallucination episode, David goes to Sofia's apartment to find Julianna there, and that all the old photos and pictures of David and Sofia have been replaced with Julianna. In a fit of rage, David kills Julianna by suffocation. He is arrested and put into prison, placed under the psychological care of Dr. Curtis McCabe. David, finding himself suffering from a form of amnesia, attempts to recount the recent events to Dr. McCabe, and the two discover that there may be a connection between David and a company known as "Life Extension", who place clinically-dead patients into cryogenic chambers to awaken in the future when cures may be available. David and Mr. McCabe visit the company, who explain that they place their patients into a "Lucid Dream" state while in the cryogenics company. David recognizes that the reality he is in is his own Lucid Dream, and calls for Tech Support.
David escapes from the company office to find the mysterious man directing him to an elevator. As they rise to the top of an impossibly tall building, the man, revealing himself to be the tech support, explains David's true past: after passing out drunk on the sidewalk, he never saw Sofia again. Due to his depression, David sought the services of Life Extension, wishing to start the Lucid Dream the morning after the drunken incident, and to live under the "vanilla sky" his mother always talked about; he then committed suicide so that he may be placed in the cryogenic system, where he has been for the past 150 years. While David was experiencing the Lucid Dream, a malfunction of the system caused the dream to become a nightmare, merging Sofia and Julianna's personas and creating people, such as Dr. McCabe, out of his past memories. At the roof of the building, the man offers David a choice, to either be reinserted into the corrected Lucid Dream as to be together with Sofia forever, or to opt to wake up though this requires a leap of faith off the building. David opts to be awakened so that he can live a real life, and he takes a few last moments to say goodbye to the Dream versions of Sofia and Brian, then jumps off the building, his memories flashing through his eyes as he falls. Just as he hits the ground, a voice tells David to wake up, the film briefly focuses on his closed eye opening onto the real world.
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15) Dreams
The film consists of several dreams based on Kurosawa's own, throughout his life.
--
Um, a few things to note, i don't think the movies "Requiem for a Dream" and "What Dreams May Come"have what we want. But you can take a look at their plots anyway.
Sources:FilmSchoolRejects.comTop 5 Movies About Dreams ,
Wikipedia-Vanilla Sky, Wikipedia-Dreams.
--
Oh, i think that dreams may not be those that you have when you sleep, but also like your aspirations. Maybe like someone dreams to be a dancer or something but can't as in reality, he or she is poor. Dreams can be daydreams also, i guess? Like you try to shun away from the cruelties of reality and daydream of a rich life? Something like that? :D
Did you know that Stephanie Meyer wrote Twilight as the plot came to her in a dream? Another author, Nancy Yi Fan, dreamt of birds fighting against each other and wrote the book "Swordbird"? haha,yeah
Whew! All that searching in one night!
Iffera :D
"The powerless must have a dream or two, dreams that can break walls, dreams that can go through walls as if they are powerless"-When Dreams Travel by Githa Hariharan.
[Facts] Sleepwalking and Dreams and Reality Facts
Ah, sorry Wanli! For my previous post, i didn't realise that those names that you mentioned were just members who had an account on imdb. haha.
Here are some sleepwalking facts:
- Commonly experienced in ppl with high lvls of stress,anxiety/psychological factors. It can also occur in ppl with genetic factors of somnambulism [sleepwalking] in the family.
- Can affect people of any age. But kids sleepwalk more often than adults.
- There is a sleep aid, Zolpidem, also sold under the name Ambien, has a likelihood of sleepwalking. Some guy took this and sleepwalked into the cold weather and died of hypothermia.
- Sleepwalkers eyes can be opened, but they usually have a glazed look.
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And here are some facts on Dream and Reality:
- 1st type: The Matrix, where what you think is real is not. Like living in a false world.
- 2nd type: You have a dream and the next day, you realise its real or something related to it happens. Sometimes a dream of disaster has a sort of prerecognition.
- 3rd type: Where the worlc revolves around you? Like the “Truman Show” and “Bolt”.
There are cases where the 2nd type happens. Here are some:
- A man dreaming of his brother’s murder saw not only events that led to his death, he also saw what was done with the body afterwards.
- A woman who dreamt that she died in a car crash and a few days later, she did.
- A person dreamt of some numbers which he used to win in a lottery game.
The above examples are from: http://www.dhushara.com/book/dreams/dreaming.htm
Iffera. :D
Here are some sleepwalking facts:
- Commonly experienced in ppl with high lvls of stress,anxiety/psychological factors. It can also occur in ppl with genetic factors of somnambulism [sleepwalking] in the family.
- Can affect people of any age. But kids sleepwalk more often than adults.
- There is a sleep aid, Zolpidem, also sold under the name Ambien, has a likelihood of sleepwalking. Some guy took this and sleepwalked into the cold weather and died of hypothermia.
- Sleepwalkers eyes can be opened, but they usually have a glazed look.
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And here are some facts on Dream and Reality:
- 1st type: The Matrix, where what you think is real is not. Like living in a false world.
- 2nd type: You have a dream and the next day, you realise its real or something related to it happens. Sometimes a dream of disaster has a sort of prerecognition.
- 3rd type: Where the worlc revolves around you? Like the “Truman Show” and “Bolt”.
There are cases where the 2nd type happens. Here are some:
- A man dreaming of his brother’s murder saw not only events that led to his death, he also saw what was done with the body afterwards.
- A woman who dreamt that she died in a car crash and a few days later, she did.
- A person dreamt of some numbers which he used to win in a lottery game.
The above examples are from: http://www.dhushara.com/book/dreams/dreaming.htm
Iffera. :D
[Story] #9 and #10
Before I begin, Wanli! What is the title of the synopsis that you posted previously that was written by Anthony Pereyra?
Other Stories:
Animals can actually sleepwalk too!
8) There is a dog who sleepwalks.
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Also, there is actually a teenage girl who sleepwalked out of her window and she fell out of the window and landed on the ground outside the apartment she lives in. The next morning, her family realised what happened and took her to the hospital. Surprisingly, not only did she not remember how she got down on the ground, not a single bone in her body was broken.
9) The teenager who sleepwalked out her bedroom window
Just recently, in May 2009, a sleepwalking teenager stepped out of the bedroom window at her historic castle home and plunged 25ft to the ground. Rachel Ward had got out of bed and pulled on a jumper before making her dramatic, unconscious exit from the first floor of the 19th century house.
She landed feet first on a narrow strip of grass next to her car, leaving six-inch divots in the ground, before collapsing. Semi-conscious, she screamed for help and her parents took her to hospital. There, to the amazement of doctors, tests revealed she hadn't broken a single bone. It was only the following day that Miss Ward, an 18-year-old A-level student, properly woke up.
Source: ODDEE
Iffera. :D
Other Stories:
Animals can actually sleepwalk too!
8) There is a dog who sleepwalks.
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Also, there is actually a teenage girl who sleepwalked out of her window and she fell out of the window and landed on the ground outside the apartment she lives in. The next morning, her family realised what happened and took her to the hospital. Surprisingly, not only did she not remember how she got down on the ground, not a single bone in her body was broken.
9) The teenager who sleepwalked out her bedroom window
Just recently, in May 2009, a sleepwalking teenager stepped out of the bedroom window at her historic castle home and plunged 25ft to the ground. Rachel Ward had got out of bed and pulled on a jumper before making her dramatic, unconscious exit from the first floor of the 19th century house.
She landed feet first on a narrow strip of grass next to her car, leaving six-inch divots in the ground, before collapsing. Semi-conscious, she screamed for help and her parents took her to hospital. There, to the amazement of doctors, tests revealed she hadn't broken a single bone. It was only the following day that Miss Ward, an 18-year-old A-level student, properly woke up.
Source: ODDEE
Iffera. :D
[Story] #8
8) Can two different people have the same dream on the same day?
I know this sounds really impossible but I had a dream where I was in a train station and I saw my friend there. I approached him and ask him, where are you going? He said I am not going there because this train will crash. Ok that's all from my dream.
The next morning, I talked to my friend "the one in the dream" we have been talking about other things till he opened the topic "Dream" I ask him, what did you dream last night? I was just curious. He had to think for a few minutes and said that he was at a "train station".
I was so shocked! I did not believe the word coming out of his mouth. Ok maybe it’s another dream. But he said that he saw me. I ask him if I had talked to him in his dream and he said yes!
"I think you ask me where im going." I then ask him if he had fear of riding with a train because it would crash. He said he remembered that there will be a train that will crash, and that is why he left the train station. This is incredible! Is this a super coincidence or is there a real dream land? Because me and my friend had no recent event of trains or train stations.
We also have not been thinking of trains and we are also not room mates, we live in different locations in Chicago. Two people, one dream with the same train station! And the same words spoken in one dream location! Is there some mystery about this or just a very BIG coincidence?
Who knows? Maybe our minds can connect on a higher level than we are aware of.
Source: Yahoo! Answers
I know this sounds really impossible but I had a dream where I was in a train station and I saw my friend there. I approached him and ask him, where are you going? He said I am not going there because this train will crash. Ok that's all from my dream.
The next morning, I talked to my friend "the one in the dream" we have been talking about other things till he opened the topic "Dream" I ask him, what did you dream last night? I was just curious. He had to think for a few minutes and said that he was at a "train station".
I was so shocked! I did not believe the word coming out of his mouth. Ok maybe it’s another dream. But he said that he saw me. I ask him if I had talked to him in his dream and he said yes!
"I think you ask me where im going." I then ask him if he had fear of riding with a train because it would crash. He said he remembered that there will be a train that will crash, and that is why he left the train station. This is incredible! Is this a super coincidence or is there a real dream land? Because me and my friend had no recent event of trains or train stations.
We also have not been thinking of trains and we are also not room mates, we live in different locations in Chicago. Two people, one dream with the same train station! And the same words spoken in one dream location! Is there some mystery about this or just a very BIG coincidence?
Who knows? Maybe our minds can connect on a higher level than we are aware of.
Source: Yahoo! Answers
I found this interesting so I included it here. Haha.
Wan Li
[Story] #6 and #7
6) Waking Life
Dreams. What are they? An escape from reality or reality itself?
Waking Life follows the dream(s) of one man and his attempt to find and discern the absolute difference between waking life and the dreamworld. While trying to figure out a way to wake up, he runs into many people on his way; some of which offer one sentence asides on life, others delving deeply into existential questions and life's mysteries.
We become the main character. It becomes our dream and our questions being asked and answered. Can we control our dreams? What are they telling us about life? About death? About ourselves and where we come from and where we are going? The film does not answer all these for us. Instead, it inspires us to ask the questions and find the answers ourselves.
Written by Jeff Mellinger
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7) The Boy Who Can Float
This is the story of a boy who has a dream that he can float, but unless he holds on, he will drift away into the sky. Even when he is grown up, this idea recurs. After a strange accident, he walks through what may be a dream, flowing in and out of scenarios and encountering various characters. People he meets discuss science, philosophy and the life of dreaming and waking, and the protagonist gradually becomes alarmed that he cannot awake from this confusing dream adventure.
Written by Anthony Pereyra
Source: IMDbPro
Wan Li
Dreams. What are they? An escape from reality or reality itself?
Waking Life follows the dream(s) of one man and his attempt to find and discern the absolute difference between waking life and the dreamworld. While trying to figure out a way to wake up, he runs into many people on his way; some of which offer one sentence asides on life, others delving deeply into existential questions and life's mysteries.
We become the main character. It becomes our dream and our questions being asked and answered. Can we control our dreams? What are they telling us about life? About death? About ourselves and where we come from and where we are going? The film does not answer all these for us. Instead, it inspires us to ask the questions and find the answers ourselves.
Written by Jeff Mellinger
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7) The Boy Who Can Float
This is the story of a boy who has a dream that he can float, but unless he holds on, he will drift away into the sky. Even when he is grown up, this idea recurs. After a strange accident, he walks through what may be a dream, flowing in and out of scenarios and encountering various characters. People he meets discuss science, philosophy and the life of dreaming and waking, and the protagonist gradually becomes alarmed that he cannot awake from this confusing dream adventure.
Written by Anthony Pereyra
Source: IMDbPro
Wan Li
July 10, 2009
[Story] [Facts] #5
Another story, on sleepwalking.
5) The sleepwalking nurse who draws masterpieces in a trance
Meet Lee Hadwin. By day a nurse, at night he's a "sleepwalking artist" who produces strange and fantastical artworks which he has no recollection of drawing when he wakes up the next morning.Dubbed 'Kipasso', he says he is utterly mystified by his nocturnal talent, while at the daytime he shows no interest or ability in art whatsoever.
Major galleries have been asking for examples of his work, which they hope to market on its artistic merit as well as its novelty value.Hadwin first started sleepwalking when he was four years old, but his parents believed it was a normal childhood phase. When he was in his teens, he began producing art work while asleep, at first on his bedroom walls.
Once, staying over at a friend's house, he covered the kitchen walls with doodles in his sleep, an embarrassing discovery at breakfast time the next day. In his late teens and early 20s, the intensity of his sleepwalking increased and Hadwin would wake to find everything in the vicinity: tableclothes, newspapers, clothes and walls, covered in artwork.
Hoping to harness the strange ability, he started leaving artists' materials out when he went to bed and, sure enough, when he awoke he says he would find full-blown pictures beside him. Now, he leaves his home prepared for nocturnal wanderings, with sketchbooks and charcoal pencils scattered around the house, particularly under the stairs, a favorite venue.
Source: ODDEE
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And some background reading on dreams and stuff like that. c:
Dreams make perfect sense when you’re having them. Yet, they leave you befuddled the next morning, wondering “where did that come from?” The answer may lie in the dreams of people with amnesia, researchers report in Friday’s issue of Science.
Much of the fodder for our dreams comes from recent experiences. For this reason, scientists have tentatively supposed that the dreaming brain draws from its “declarative memory” system, which includes newly learned information.
The declarative memory stores information that you can “declare” you know, such as the square root of nine, or the name of your dog. Often, you can even remember when or where you learned something - for example, the day you discovered the harsh truth about Santa Claus. That’s called episodic memory.
Source: MSNBC
Cheryl.
[Story] #4
Hello:D Found this story about people murdering people in their sleep.
4) Steven Steinberg Case
In 1981 a Scottsdale, Arizona man named Steven Steinberg was accused of murdering his wife, Elena, with a kitchen knife. She was stabbed 26 times. The trial took place in Maricopa County Superior Court in 1982. Steinberg acknowledged the murder, claimed he did it while sleepwalking, and therefore was not sane at the time. Dr. Martin Blinder, a California psychiatrist, testified that the murder was committed under a scenario of "dissociative reaction," when Steinberg stabbed repeatedly stabbed his wife.
Steinberg didn't deny the fact that he had killed her, but he pleaded 'not guilty' because he claimed not to remember the crime. He was sleeping, and must have been sleepwalking at the time. Steinberg was found innocent by the jury, on the ground he was temporarily insane when he killed his wife. He walked away a free man.
It kinda scary dont you think?? Yup thats all :D
- Shu Min
P/S hey people, start posting!!
4) Steven Steinberg Case
In 1981 a Scottsdale, Arizona man named Steven Steinberg was accused of murdering his wife, Elena, with a kitchen knife. She was stabbed 26 times. The trial took place in Maricopa County Superior Court in 1982. Steinberg acknowledged the murder, claimed he did it while sleepwalking, and therefore was not sane at the time. Dr. Martin Blinder, a California psychiatrist, testified that the murder was committed under a scenario of "dissociative reaction," when Steinberg stabbed repeatedly stabbed his wife.
Steinberg didn't deny the fact that he had killed her, but he pleaded 'not guilty' because he claimed not to remember the crime. He was sleeping, and must have been sleepwalking at the time. Steinberg was found innocent by the jury, on the ground he was temporarily insane when he killed his wife. He walked away a free man.
It kinda scary dont you think?? Yup thats all :D
- Shu Min
P/S hey people, start posting!!
July 09, 2009
[Update] [Story] 9 July 2009
10 Stories
1) Beyond Dream's Door
Ben Dobbs (played by Nick Baldasare), a Randolf Carter figure who can no longer discern between reality and nightmare. In an almost catatonic state, Ben dreams in chains; he has a dream, awakens into another dream, awakens in yet another dream, then finally awakens. The force of the dream begins to override his capacity to think. He talks to several students about his dilemma, then decides to consult his psychology professor. None offer more than sympathy -- after all, a nightmare stops when the eyes open. But for Ben, the nightmare has outgrown the world of dreams. Slowly, the nightmare enters into phases of reality, interfering with Ben’s waking moments. He can no longer distinguish between reality and illusion.
The nightmare is a demon spawned long ago by extraordinary dreamer. The demon, located in a necropolis of past victims, wishes only to torture each soul -- it feeds on fear, pain, and worst of all, doubt. Far worse than the demon is the fact that Ben’s affliction is contagious. Soon all of his friends and the professor begin to experience the dream, each falling prey to the monster. Ben, realizing this, attempts to destroy the demon with the help of a friend (Rick Kesler). The end is truly chilling.
2) Truman Show
The Truman Show depicts a series of fateful events in the life of Truman Burbank, (played by Jim Carrey) who has grown up, and lives, in a fake town full of actors. The town is enclosed in a giant dome decked out with high-tech simulations of sun and sky, in which the rain and wind are courtesy of the special effects department. Truman alone has no idea he is in a giant TV studio, as the rest of humanity watches him go from one staged situation to another in a nonstop telethon of reality programming that lets audiences enjoy a little pathos and vicarious emotion.
But into this ersatz paradise, there inevitably appears a snake. After the crew makes mistakes that cause the seamlessness of the illusion to break down, Truman figures out that his surroundings are full of staged scenes and events. He then tries to make his escape, only to come up against both his own fears, which keep him from leaving, and the obstacles put in his way by the producer-director who has made billions trapping him in a stage set and playing God with his life.
3) Paprika
To be edited.
*Update the blog with the title of the story you have found and a synopsis. Alternatively if you have any problems with blogger you can send them to me via MSN or email and I'll upload it for you. Do complete it by Saturday night latest, as we are actually suppose to email him this URL before the weekend. (:
4 Characters
1) Adult (male) - Beyond Dream's Body
Characterization by Shu Min and Regine.
2) Child (female) Beyond Dream's Body
Characterization by Iffera and Ling An.
3) Actress (female) - Truman Show
Characterization by Cheryl and Kai Lin.
4) Director (Old Man) - Truman Show
Characterization by Wan Li and Yan Ying.
Some tips for characterization:
- Childhood
- Family
- Social
- Character
- Education
- Career
*Do a 2-page characterization over the weekend, get materials ready by drama lesson on Monday.
Yup that's all. (:
-Yan Ying
1) Beyond Dream's Door
Ben Dobbs (played by Nick Baldasare), a Randolf Carter figure who can no longer discern between reality and nightmare. In an almost catatonic state, Ben dreams in chains; he has a dream, awakens into another dream, awakens in yet another dream, then finally awakens. The force of the dream begins to override his capacity to think. He talks to several students about his dilemma, then decides to consult his psychology professor. None offer more than sympathy -- after all, a nightmare stops when the eyes open. But for Ben, the nightmare has outgrown the world of dreams. Slowly, the nightmare enters into phases of reality, interfering with Ben’s waking moments. He can no longer distinguish between reality and illusion.
The nightmare is a demon spawned long ago by extraordinary dreamer. The demon, located in a necropolis of past victims, wishes only to torture each soul -- it feeds on fear, pain, and worst of all, doubt. Far worse than the demon is the fact that Ben’s affliction is contagious. Soon all of his friends and the professor begin to experience the dream, each falling prey to the monster. Ben, realizing this, attempts to destroy the demon with the help of a friend (Rick Kesler). The end is truly chilling.
2) Truman Show
The Truman Show depicts a series of fateful events in the life of Truman Burbank, (played by Jim Carrey) who has grown up, and lives, in a fake town full of actors. The town is enclosed in a giant dome decked out with high-tech simulations of sun and sky, in which the rain and wind are courtesy of the special effects department. Truman alone has no idea he is in a giant TV studio, as the rest of humanity watches him go from one staged situation to another in a nonstop telethon of reality programming that lets audiences enjoy a little pathos and vicarious emotion.
But into this ersatz paradise, there inevitably appears a snake. After the crew makes mistakes that cause the seamlessness of the illusion to break down, Truman figures out that his surroundings are full of staged scenes and events. He then tries to make his escape, only to come up against both his own fears, which keep him from leaving, and the obstacles put in his way by the producer-director who has made billions trapping him in a stage set and playing God with his life.
3) Paprika
To be edited.
*Update the blog with the title of the story you have found and a synopsis. Alternatively if you have any problems with blogger you can send them to me via MSN or email and I'll upload it for you. Do complete it by Saturday night latest, as we are actually suppose to email him this URL before the weekend. (:
4 Characters
1) Adult (male) - Beyond Dream's Body
Characterization by Shu Min and Regine.
2) Child (female) Beyond Dream's Body
Characterization by Iffera and Ling An.
3) Actress (female) - Truman Show
Characterization by Cheryl and Kai Lin.
4) Director (Old Man) - Truman Show
Characterization by Wan Li and Yan Ying.
Some tips for characterization:
- Childhood
- Family
- Social
- Character
- Education
- Career
*Do a 2-page characterization over the weekend, get materials ready by drama lesson on Monday.
Yup that's all. (:
-Yan Ying
[Update] Members.
Cheryl Ho Jing Yi (01)
Chong Shu Min (02)
Iffera Ng Lu Hui (05)
Ling An (10)
Ong Wan Li (11)
Regine Hoe Jia Hui (12)
See Kai Lin (13)
Sim Yan Ying (15)
Comment if anything isn't right about the blog or if there's anything that you would like to change. Permissions to post have been emailed out yeah. (:
Chong Shu Min (02)
Iffera Ng Lu Hui (05)
Ling An (10)
Ong Wan Li (11)
Regine Hoe Jia Hui (12)
See Kai Lin (13)
Sim Yan Ying (15)
Comment if anything isn't right about the blog or if there's anything that you would like to change. Permissions to post have been emailed out yeah. (:
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