Movie Substrate · Film
Dreamscape (1984)
★ 6.1 · 313 ratings on TMDB
Close your eyes and the adventure begins.
In order to diagnose the psychic traumas suffered by his patients, Dr. Paul Novotny gets young Alex Gardner to enter their dreams.
DirectorJoseph Ruben
The emergence reading
Dreamscape keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.
zero-distanceUS
⇄ Parameter shift — the dial this world turnsrigor: loose
E6mortalitydeath can be caused by dying in a linked REM‑dream; any subject connected through the psychic dream‑link who dies in the dream dies physically (technology · local)
Same rung, same subject
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