Been using hypnosis to increase my dream recall and incidence of lucid dreams.  Just had another lucid dream this morning, where I was sliding down an underground river (cataract, really) toward a lake and I knew that it was a dream and I had to just relax and “become the water” in order not to drown.

 So I just had an idea for a sequel to the Matrix trilogy.  Everyone cool now knows that reality is breaking up, the spirit world is getting closer, everything is synchronous.  my movie is set in a high school where a guy who watches “the matrix” all the time suddenly starts having lucid dreams, realizing that the Matrix really is a metaphor for some real kind of paradigm shift — and starts haunting this really cute girl’s dreams.  he picks a few other people he’d want to be friends with and forms a dreamgang — but then the other dreamers recognize him in the waking world so he has to explain to them how he developed this ability, then they all develop it —

BUT THEN of course they realize there’s a biggger war of control going on and dark forces chase them around the dream world etc. 

the key is that it could be a true story!  lucid dreaming really is “hacking the matrix”, stories of the supernatural are totally more realistic than news accounts of daily life . . . etc.  so the whole point of the movie is that world culture has hit the crisis point where everyone knows “reality” is a lie —

and furthermore all the psychic combat and the nasty creatures and stuff can be depicted with total realism, no exaggeration, based on stuff that’s really going on right this minute!