I took the kids to see James Cameron’s Avatar on opening day, expecting to be slogging through a cheesy American effort at anime.  With that low expectation, it was a pleasure being treated to the enthralling and magical 3d experience of entering Pandora.  In spite of the movie’s trite and predictable plot, the thoroughness in conceiving and presenting the world of Pandora made it all worthwhile.

The News Record of Cincinnati recently ran an article about the incredible popularity of the movie’s setting.  They refer to one Avatar discussion forum with over a thousand posts about depression resulting from people’s inability to visit this fantasy world.  Cameron succeeded magnificently in bringing his audience into his vision, and many would love to experience more.

Lucid Dreaming is discussed in the forum threads as a means to enter Pandora.  It isn’t just a means – it is the only way to really experience being there! Pandora exists only in the imaginations of its creators and in the computer models rendered to the magnificent 3d setting for the movie.  In our own dreams, however, we can go there and experience it for ourselves, again and again.

In the movie, the characters must yield their physical selves and consciousness of their real bodies in order to experience Pandora as one of the indigenous humanoids equipped to survive there.  In lucid dreaming, as in all dreaming, we are separated from our physical senses as we enter a “dream body” through which we experience our own worlds.

In the film, Pandora was a world best experienced through something very akin to lucid dreaming.  In reality, Pandora is a world that can only be experienced through lucid dreaming.  And I can tell you from experience that Pandora is just the beginning.

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