"For years I have had the thought, that perhaps in my dreams, I am living another life, a parallel one."
You must know this, by Master Zhuang:
Once upon a time, I, Chuang Chou, dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, a veritable butterfly, enjoying itself to the full of its bent, and not knowing it was Chuang Chou. Suddenly I awoke, and came to myself, the veritable Chuang Chou. Now I do not know whether it was then I dreamt I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhuang_Zhou
No I haven't Otto. But I think I have encountered something similar. We'd better be careful how we treat those butterflies, lest we be hurting ourselves. ;-)
A short paraphrase of this is used in the play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosencrantz_and_Guildenstern_Are_Dead
The reason I know this is because I acted in this play decades ago at the UofL Theater.
The story is bizarre, surreal and dream-like, so the quote fits.
I saw the film, it was brilliant!
so did I - and unbelievably, the whole thing is on You Tube:
On YouTube for only so long... until it ends up like two above. ;-)
I seen 3 versions posted so far, one goes back to 2012. When I like something, I download it. Usually, with certain movie companies (or the BBC) things don't last long on YouTube. I downloaded Robert Hughes art series "The Shock of the New" before it got pulled again.
Sounds like you have a decent video collection to raid then.
Wooow! Tim Roth and Gary Oldman?! So watching!
This inspired me to post one of my favorite novels - and doing a search, I discovered the whole movie of this on You Tube, which I added to my post:
https://steemit.com/book/@thermoplastic/the-lathe-of-heaven
I'll check it out.
Have you ever seen "Waking Life"?
no, I haven't, but the interesting thing on doing a quick search is that one of the posters for this is largely derivative of one of Ursula Le Guin's book covers for Lathe of Heaven. So there must be a connection, or else the same graphic artist
Whoa, found the whole movie on
Vimeo:
Yes! That's the one. =) Enjoy!