Dream world (universe)
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For the theme park, see Dreamworld.
In the science of oneirology and in many works of fiction, a dream world or dream realm is a place created from the dreams of humans during sleep. Often, dream worlds appear peaceful and beautiful, but others are quite ghastly or bizarre; the latter being a nightmare world.
[edit] Examples of fictional dream/nightmare worlds
- Maginaryworld from Sonic Shuffle.
- Nightopia and Nightmare (collectively known in a place called the "Night Dimension") from NiGHTS into Dreams...
- The "Dream Realm" from The Life and Times of Juniper Lee
- The unnamed dream world from the Sailor Moon SuperS movie
- Oz from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz could be said to be a dream world based on evidence in the 1939 movie
- Wonderland from Alice in Wonderland
- Neverland from Peter Pan (especially when Wendy ends up waking from the whole experience in the 1953 Disney movie)
- The various incarnations of the dream world from the Nightmare on Elm Street series of films, a realm inhabited by the supernatural serial killer Freddy Krueger.
- The Dreamlands of H.P. Lovecraft's Dream Cycle.
- Down Town, the land of nightmares where all people who are in comas go in the movie Monkeybone.
- In The Neverending Story, the world of Fantastica includes places like The Desert of Lost Dreams, The Sea of Possibilities, The Swamps of Saddness, etc.
- The dream worlds in Rozen Maiden
- The Outback(s) of The Maxx
[edit] External links
- The Epistemology of Descartes (fulltext) Classic philosophy on the difference between the real and the dream world
