dreaming machine
a selection of dreams from “dreaming machine # 2” installations. ben bogart 2009 / 2010
[ … ] actress a biography type work documenting his journey to his second film. and, of course, dreaming machine, his final project that’s still in development [ … ]
masao maruyama, founder of animation studio madhouse, appeared at otakon 2011 this morning with word on his new independent studio, mappa, satoshi kon' s dreaming machine, and more .
this video presents a selection of dreams from various
dreaming machine # 2
installations in hong kong, são paulo and montréal. from each of these installations, two dreams have been selected .
officially, dreaming machine remains in production, but only about half the film had been completed by the time of kon’s death and madhouse is holding out for a director of kon’s immense talent to finish the job .
can a machine dream? dreaming is the result of complex interactions between body, thought and memory. during the day, the dreaming machine examines its visual context and records stimuli that will then inspire its
musings
. enabled by an artificial intelligence, and a memory model, the system’s free associations, or “dreams”, are shown to the audience. the system externalizes that which usually belongs to the screen of our thoughts .
red guy discovers a machine with monitors displaying yellow guy being tormented by another singing object, and the machines controls cause other singing objects to appear. when red guy unplugs the machine, it apparently resets reality and / or causes time to finally start moving forward again .
in one batman beyond episode, a villain traded rides on his lotus - eater machine for stolen loot brought in by mostly unhappy teens. the machine also slowly killed them while letting them temporarily experience their greatest wishes .
abducted a bunch of unicorn foals, chopped off their horns, and forced then into a lotus - eater machine .
the titular machine in kurt vonnegut' s the euphio question gives such pleasure to listeners that they ignore everything else .
it turns out that the lotus eater machine is being used to rehabilitate the cast from teenage thugs to model citizens .
, ban' s evil eye technique can in fact be used as a lotus eater machine. often, ban subtly changes the
the staff at madhouse studios are doing just that, as production is once again gearing up on the dreaming machine (yume - miru kikai) after a temporary suspension. taking over directing duties is character designer and chief animation director yoshimi itazu, who has been closely involved in the film’s creation from the very beginning .
details on dreaming machine’s plot have been sparse, but what kon talked about was a film for a younger audience starring robots going on a road trip. at the time of his death just over a third of the film had been animated with kon leaving detailed instructions on how to complete it. in the following years we’ve heard small snippets of information about the film’s progress. the head of madhouse inc. masao maruyama assured fans that no matter what the film would be completed. but in 2011 he spoke of financial difficulties putting dreaming machine on hold. he later spoke 2015 that another major hurdle was finding a director on par with kon to take the reigns. it’s admirable that maruyama wants to honor this project with such dedication, but i fear dreaming machine may never see the light of day. or even worse, it’ll end up like the thief and the cobbler with decades of work creating a nonsense film that is a pale shadow of what it was meant to be .
the late satoshi kon‘s family has posted a heartbreaking final message from the anime director on his website. blogger makiko itoh has translated the document, a selection from which is here: my biggest regret is the film “the dreaming machine. ” i’m worried not only about the film itself, but the staff who i was able [ … ]
colonel hein puts adam jensen in a
dream catcher machine
in the mass effect / deus ex human revolution crossover mass effect human revolution .
there has been no news about the film since 2012, but one of the project leads, kenji itoso, recently crowdfunded a separate film, santa company, on kickstarter. in an interview in december 2014, itoso said he felt comfortable taking a break from dreaming machine only because satoshi kon himself had urged him not to obsess too much about completing the project .
. he is able to escape as he realizes that he is able to control what happens. the episode ends with enoch trapped in the machine and
“dreaming machine # 3” is a site - specific generative installation in the series of “context machines” (bogart, 2011, 2013) and perceives the visual context of installation through a video camera and generates images presented to the viewer. these images represent the phenomenological experience of images we hold in our minds. the authors have developed an integrative theory (bogart 2013) that links perception, mental - imagery, mind - wandering, dreaming and spontaneous creativity into a single conception of simulation that is supported by neurological evidence. the dreaming machine is an artwork and computational model that realizes the integrative theory. the system uses artificial intelligence methods to make sense of incoming visual material and learns objects and patterns that are used to simulate external reality. the result of the simulation is presented to the viewer as a moving image. the simulation is presented in three distinct modes: in the perceptual mode, the viewer sees a reconstruction of the camera’s image build up from already learned components. in the mind - wandering mode, a relatively static camera image causes an hallucinatory response where imagined images, constructed from learned components, are superimposed on the perceptual image. in the dreaming mode, the absence of external information (due to darkness) leads to totally fabricated images that simulate external reality. these dreaming images diverge from physical reality because they are no longer anchored in external sensory information and because the simulator is unable to perfectly reproduce reality .
susumu hirasawa - dreaming machine - hen gen jizai version (heavy string) hirasawa solo works arranged in strings - oriented style. . it is created for
the aggregated past kangenshuigi 8760 hours
, the 20th anniversary of susumu hirasawa' s solo debut and the 30th anniversary of p - model' s debut. tracklist for the album is: 01: machine dreams 02: siren * siren * 03: mother 04: venus 05: caravanserai bandiria 06: tobira島 (paraneshian circle) 07: pacific rim camouflage net
that’s not a direct order, but anyone familiar with satoshi kon’s work—from perfect blue to paprika —would be hard - pressed not to show at least a little excitement over these screens for the dreaming machine (yume miru kikai). even without much in the way of plot information aside from it being a sci - fi feature suitable for kids, the title alone piques my interest .
in the my little pony friendship is magic fanfic getting back on your hooves, checker monarch draws the mane six into a lotus - eater machine trap .
elphaba has been captured by the nome king and is being slowly coerced into a deal with the devil through a tailor - made lotus - eater machine .
in the naruto / my little pony friendship is magic crossover friendship contract, rarity has a technique that creates effects similar to a lotus - eater machine .
the entire arcadia district is one big lotus eater machine; everyone is really strapped into chairs and hooked up to computers while living in a virtual paradise .
susumu hirasawa, whose song
dreaming machine
( from the ghost in science) is the source of the film' title, said :
i never received an official order from kon. it' s an unspoken agreement of sorts. there are scenes where he specifically requested a certain track to be used, but there are also many parts where there are no such directions, so it falls to me to choose the songs. this is a difficult task. but we must carry out his dying request, to complete this work, even without a director to question
. on november 10, 2010, the album hen - gen - ji - zai, which features a rerecording of
dreaming machine
made two months before kon' s death, was released by hirasawa' s labels .
cosmo entelechia, the illusory world where the big bad wants to put all the residents of mundus magicus, is a lotus eater machine tailored to each person affected .
in the kirby fanfic the dream land story, dark matter possesses him and puts him into a hellish dreamlike state, akin to a inverse lotus - eater machine .
i haven' t been idly waiting for death, even now i' m thinking with my weak brain of ways to let the work live even after i am gone. but they are all shallow ideas. when i told maruyama - san about my concerns about
dreaming machine
, he just said
don' t worry. we' ll figure out something, so don' t worry .
when a machine that allows therapists to enter their patients' dreams is stolen, all hell breaks loose. only a young female therapist, paprika, can stop it .
in
waking moments
, telepathic aliens who exist primarily in a dreaming state invade the crew' s dreams, forcing them to all join into a single group dream that seems totally real, in order to attack them. only chakotay, the magical native american, knows it is a dream at first, and uses his lucid dreaming technique to control the dream world. chakotay is able, with the holographic doctor' s help, to threaten the sleeping aliens into waking the rest of the crew .
lasts several subjective days and reunites him with his murdered girlfriend; the machine breaks down, though, since he' s just as miserable and lonely with her as without .
taking questions at otakon 2015, mappa and madhouse founder masao maruyama indicated that anime director satoshi kon' s incomplete final work, yume miru kikai (dreaming machine) is still in production
in theory .
however, while financing the project is a considerable challenge, the more difficult constraint is finding talent comparable to kon' s. unfortunately, at the current time, no one is able to match kon' s skill level .
inverted in
the gamekeeper
, where instead of being an idyllic paradise, the machine - created realm forces jack and daniel to repeatedly relive the worst moments of their past .
august 24, 2010 was a very grim day. i remember logging into facebook and seeing a note from kon’s page explaining how he’d been diagnosed with cancer earlier in the year and knew it was only a matter of time until he passed. it was tragic reading someone’s own words talking about their disease knowing this would be read by fans after his death. once the initial shock had worn off i was left wondering what this meant for his latest project “dreaming machine” .
future imperfect
: riker is trapped in a lotus eater machine by a benevolent captor who just wants to be friends with him. when he realizes it the first time, it creates a second lotus eater machine, in which he' s a prisoner of a recurring enemy romulan who was behind the first one as well. both times inconsistencies / inaccuracies are what tip riker off .
first and foremost is the question of how to find money to finish the 900 shots left to be animated. darren aronofsky is a professed fan of satoshi kon having bought the remake rights for perfect blue just to re - create a single moment in requiem for a dream. and if you look at his film black swan you can see even stronger similarities to perfect blue. christopher nolan also acknowledged his film inception took inspiration from kon’s paprika. if these two filmmakers united they’d be able to get the budget necessary to complete dreaming machine in no time. the harder aspect is finding a director to take over the project. with money in place i assume maruyama could find a director or even an entire team of directors who under his supervision would match kon’s style. whatever happens i hope to see the final piece of work from a master artist. what about you? do you think dreaming machine should be completed? or is it for the best it’s forgotten with kon no longer at the helm ?
a rather nasty one was inflicted on pixie. some demons used their magic to make her own illusory powers trick her and her friends. she was essentially the power source for her own lotus eater machine .
during the course of the die anstalt fanfic a posse ad esse, dr wood perfects a your mind makes it real - style technique and wants to use it to create an inverse lotus - eater machine .
the main characters inhabit a shared lotus eater machine universe, while in the outside world their bodies slowly dehydrate. it is left unclear whether they go on living in the fantasy forever even after their bodies die
when asked about the status of satoshi kon' s dreaming machine, he began ,
well, that question was one of the reasons i was reluctant to return [ to the convention ], but i knew it was a question i would have to answer so i gathered my courage to come here and answer it. to be blunt, the project is on hold. but i do want to go ahead with dreaming machine ―that' s why i have my new studio now .
he went on to explain that the biggest reason the project is on hold is money, but seems absolutely dedicated to raising some ,
i don' t care how many years it' s going to take; i will get the financing required to complete the title. and currently about 600 cuts of the film [ have ] been done, but there [ are ] still about 900 to go .
mappa is meant to be a complementary studio to madhouse, since madhouse finds some projects difficult to do due to financing issues .
natsuki gets trapped inside yukariko' s lotus - eater machine, and has an experience in which her parents are still alive and living with her, while she has also met all her friends at fuuka academy .
the other world is in maki' s imagination, but it' s real at the same time. confused? the (first) big bad used his reality warper machine to make her dreams come true .
though there is still minimal plot information available for paprika director satoshi kon' s new kid - friendly science fiction animated feature the dreaming machine the official website and blog have just been updated with the first images released from the film. kon in kid - friendly mode is an interesting thing... there are elements of the design work that are clearly familiar to fans of his work but all of it run through a slightly different filter. i love the look of this and simply can' t wait to see it in motion .
the official site for satoshi kon’s last anime film yume - miru kikai (dreaming machine) went offline in late 2012. (urltoken). the official blog is still alive, but nothing has been posted since june 15th, 2011. after his death on august 24, 2010, the anime studio madhouse tried to finish the film and officially announced it resumed production on the film in november 2010. masao maruyama, the founder of madhouse, indicated that production of the film had been halted due to lack of finances at otakon in august 2011 .
inverted in the naruto peggy sue fic time and again, where naruto initially does not believe he has been transported to his 12 - year old body, thinking it to be some kind of lotus - eater machine instead .
they manage to escape the program, and create a small subroutine so that moriarty, still living in his dream, can dream it for as long as he wants with the love he found in his lotus eater machine .
basically the whole plot of final fantasy tactics advance is one for most of the main cast. marche, the playable protagonist, is in a dream world against his will while his friends and brother wish to stay in the dream because they are happier in it. towards the end, marche even says that he is done dreaming .
all of his films are worth you time, effort, and energy. i think his final film, paprika (2006) is the most readily available, but perfect blue (1997), millennium actress (2001), tokyo godfathers (2003), and the tv show paranoia agent (2004), all show a master at work and are unforgettable pieces of work. kon died in 2010 and it seems less and less likely we’ll ever see anything from his last project, dreaming machine. seriously, he’s up there with kurosawa and miyazaki for japanese filmmaking greats .
while taking questions at otakon 2015, mappa and madhouse founder masao maruyama indicated that anime director satoshi kon’s incomplete final film, yume miru kikai (dreaming machine) is still in production, well sorta. however, getting enough money to finance the film is one considerable challenge, the more difficult constraint is finding someone as talented as satoshi kon to pick up the pieces and do it justice. unfortunately, at the current time, no one is able to match kon’s skill level. maybe someday soon we’ll have someone step up and take the torch that’s been upheld for too long .
in batman' s final crisis story arc, evil scientists working for darkseid put batman in a lotus eater machine so they can take advantage of his psyche for their own ends. (not a pleasant one... the machine runs him through slightly off - kilter events from his life as batman, with a focus on the worst experiences .) batman deduces what is going on and is able to completely destroy all of their equipment and ruin their plans without even waking up .
an early archie comics sonic the hedgehog comic has robotnik trapping the freedom fighters in such a machine, where on top of the traditional ideal world, it actually changed to meet its inhabitants' wishes. after figuring it out, sonic pushes the machine' s
user - friendly
nature to its limit, takes control of robotnik' s war machines (currently on their way to raze knothole), and forces robotnik to let them go by threatening to turn them on robotropolis .
in chaos card captor sakura' s second chapter, sakura and kero are trapped in a inverse lotus - eater machine in the form of the nightmare card, which plays out extreme forms of sakura' s insecurities and feeds off of them .
triple lotus eater machine. first the protagonist is placed in a vr paradise and must escape. next comes a vr hell, which is also escapable. (given the lack of real torments and the presence of challenges, this is really a puzzle - solving adventurer' s lotus eater machine in disguise .) finally, after the villain' s apparent defeat, it is revealed that no escape has been made, and the player must act within the illusion to defeat the villain .
as for the plot of dreaming machine, maruyama was ready to reveal some details ,
i haven' t really talked about what the film is about, but i think i can talk about it today .
apparently the movie starts with a horrible tsunami that wipes out an whole town, and a robot goes on a journey to seek energy .
this is an orginal story that satoshi kon came up with 2 years ago [ … ] and it happened in japan this year. i' m starting to think that certain creators do have the ability to see what' s coming in the future .
in a way, instrumentality can be considered a lotus - eater machine - a world born from every human soul in existence uniting to cancel out each other' s fallacies and fears of loneliness to achieve perfect happiness through a twisted, forced evolution .
on heroes, matt parkman' s father maury is a living lotus - eater machine. unfortunately for his victims, he doesn' t trap them in pleasant scenarios, giving rise to his in - series nickname :
the nightmare man .
also by alan moore, dark age volume 2 of marvelman (aka miracleman) recasts the character' s silver age adventures as lotus eater machine dreams invented to keep him and his fellow post - humans in line while they were being studied and programmed .
in the beginning. a crew from earth land on mars, which looks like ohio at the turn of the 20th century. however, when their long lost dead relatives start appearing, it becomes more of a lotus eater machine story. it has a
an axis powers hetalia fanfic a dream is a wish your heart makes has denmark being ensnared by a black mercy and dreaming where he is living in the perfect world. unfortunately for him, as the rest of the nordics and other countries tries to wake him up, his perfect world descends into a horrifying nightmare, as the black mercy is slowly draining his life at the same time .
act ii and act iii get increasingly bizarre until they are revealed as a lotus eater machine hallucination brought on by a hallucinogen that links all the affected characters in a pleasant dreamworld. after finding out, lister is tempted to stay but ultimately he opts for the real thing .
in mx0, one of magical aptitude test is to leave a lotus eater machine room within 10 minutes. if you do that, you' ll forget everything that happened in there, and if you don' t, you' ll keep your memories but fail the test .
actually, they' re being held prisoner by another character who is using something; a machine, a platonic cave, or other phlebotinum to cause very intense and very realistic hallucinations. some monsters even weaponize the ability to project your heart' s desire to snatch up easy prey .
during fall of the hulks, the intelligencia traps bruce — and the other seven smartest men in the world — in a lotus - eater machine in order to drain their intellects. not all that surprisingly, bruce is married to betty, has kids, and has killed the hulk .
in
the lotus - engine
( 1940) space explorers fall into the inadvertent trap of an alien machine which offers them an illusion of paradise. since they receive neither food nor water while victims of the illusion, they must break its spell quickly if they hope to survive .
code geass gives this trope a twist by having the lotus eater machine actually be a highly addictive drug, called refrain. it' s popular amongst the conquered japanese (and may have been developed specifically as a weapon against them), since it causes the user to relive happy memories .
quark. in
goodbye polumbus
, captain quark is sent to investigate a planet from which no - one has returned, and finds it under the influence of a lotus - eater machine in an evil gorgon plot to lure away the top scientists and space captains. quark finds himself tempted by a woman who looks just like one he fell in love with at the academy, but he manfully resists and destroys the machine, only to find the beautiful woman he was smooching is actually an ugly alien. quark hastily beams up before she can show her gratitude for freeing her people .
the dream machine
( 夢みる機械) is the unfinished film which he left behind. less than half of it has been animated, and currently there isn' t enough money for production to continue. (here is a link to some production images, just navigate to
gallery
)
done slightly differently in the legend of william tell when there is no actual machine. instead a whole valley uses this. the heroes get everything they ever wanted, but the illusions all turn nasty and try to kill them, sometimes overlapping with one person' s illusion going after another person .
kon would complete one last directorial effort, a one - minute short in 2008 for the japanese tv station nhk, before tragedy struck. in may 2010, he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer while working at madhouse on his next project, dreaming machine. the news was a shock to everyone around him as he had appeared in good health during recent public appearances. by august 24 of that year, he was dead. in a heartbreaking goodbye to friends, fans and family, he said the following: “i’ve been able to do what i want as an anime director, achieve my goals, and get some good reviews. i do feel regret that my films didn’t make a lot of money, but i think they got what they deserved. ”
in the hulk and the agents of smash episode
it' s a wonderful smash
, the agents of s. m. a. s. h. are put in a lotus eater machine by the collector, in which they are acclaimed as heroes and have a skyscraper headquarters in new york (taller than avengers tower). the guardians of the galaxy are also in the machine, where they have successfully brought peace to the galaxy. rocket raccoon escapes and rescues the others, because the collector' s idea of his perfect world was based on the assumption that he was actually a raccoon .
the soul eater fanfic breaking point features an inverse lotus - eater machine. in their battle in the center of the mind, medusa is able to trap chrona inside his worst memory and make him relive it from the beginning, over and over, to weaken his soul so she can take his body .
part of a minor subplot in the novel house of suns by alastair reynolds. one character plays in a virtual reality game which malfunctions and replaces his personality with that of his game character. eventually he has to be wired permanently into the machine as he can' t function properly outside it any more .
by the spiders while babbling happily to herself. he eventually rejects the hospital reality as a lotus eater machine (and reasons that if there' s any chance the colony still needs to be saved, he has to take it), finds a way to escape from the wrecked ship and delivers the vaccine .
ends with the revelation that the protagonist actually committed suicide early on and was cryogenically frozen and put into a state of lucid dreaming where he lives out his fantasy life, gets the girl and gets an operation which fixes his disfigurement... however, the dream turns into a nightmare which culminates in him accidentally killing his girlfriend. at the end he jumps off a building in order to wake himself up despite being given the choice to have everything fixed so that the dream would be happy again .
in the adventure time episode
power animal
, gnomes capture finn and use his imagination to power a giant machine that will swap the overworld and the underground. finn is mostly done for, but jake comes to the rescue by allowing a placated party god to turn him into the eponymous being, wrecking the lem with dionysian disregard .
episode
perchance to dream
, batman wakes up in a world where his parents never died, he never became batman, and instead he ended up hitched with selina kyle (who wasn' t catwoman either). he eventually figures it out by realizing that he couldn' t read anything (he explains reading and dreaming are handled by opposite areas of the brain). it quickly becomes a nightmare as there' s somebody else playing the role of batman in said world. interestingly in that case ,
because of the nature of this trope, it often lends itself to doubts after the characters' escape'. sometimes it isn' t clear whether their escape is genuine or not. this can range from epileptic trees theories by a handful of viewers, all the way up to extreme canon cases of a dream within a dream. in this tone, a particularly fridge horrific ending for a villain (or a hero) may see them fall under the spell of the machine, but only for a second before escaping, defeating their enemies, and re - making the world in their image. cut back to reality, where they' re still under the thrall of the machine .
when director satoshi kon began work on the dreaming machine (yume - miru kikai) he knew something that his fans around the globe did not: that he was suffering from a terminal illness and there was a very real possibility that he would not survive until the end of production. and so he asked for - and received - a very simple promise from production company madhouse studios. he simply wanted to know that the studio would finish the film no matter what happened to him. kon' s passing in august led to a temporary suspension of production on the picture but now madhouse is making good on that promise with word that character designer and chief animation director yoshimi itazu has been given the role of acting director and production has resumed. itazu' s selection is a good one as it places someone who has been intimately involved with the creation of the
sgt frog episode 3: after trying various methods to disguise keroro so he can go outside, tamama tries the plant
dreaming alpha
, which sticks its tentacles into keroro' s head and makes him hallucinate that he' s in a wonderful field of flowers, but almost instantly drains his body away. (the plant itself is oddly similar to the one in the alan moore story .) in the english dub, it' s explicitly referred to as the' keronian purple mercy lotus - eating lotus' .
“time machines” as a subtitle refers to the ultimate purpose of these vast scientific instruments greenberg photographs, to understand the basic structure of the cosmos and take us back to the big bang. truly, in purpose no less than appearance, h. g. wells’s time machine and that delorean in the “back to the future” movies are mere tinkertoys by comparison .
the
dib' s wonderful life of doom
episode of invader zim: zim traps dib in a lotus - eater machine just to find out if it was he who threw a muffin at him. after extracting the information, zim releases his nemesis in a fit of genre blindness, instead of finishing him. but not before hitting him with a counter muffin. from a cannon .
however, another character trapped there doesn' t want to leave the machine — and knows that it' s all an illusion - as after having been horrifically mangled in a crash the aliens were able to restore the illusion of her original beautiful appearance. they give her a illusory captain pike to live with until the real pike returns to the planet in a later episode made up of the original pilot .
suffers no ill effects besides, well, being dead. however, because he has no pulse and heartbeat, and because the sun stays in the same place in the sky, he' s unaware of time' s passing. when he finds out that it' s been three months since he died, he freaks out as most people who discover they' re in a lotus eater machine do .
i would like to organize a fundraiser for this film, but there' s no way i can do it alone. specifically, i need some people who can read and write japanese in order to get in touch with the producers of
the dream machine .
this is critical, because even if we raise the money, we need a way to get it to the people who can use it .
given an interesting twist in an episode (apparently a take - off of the star trek: the next generation episode
remember me
) where the entire populace of eureka is slowly disappearing around sheriff carter, consumed by strange glowing portals, leaving him as the only one who even remembers them existing in the first place. turns out he' s hooked himself up to a prototype virtual reality psychoanalysis machine, which has trapped him in its illusion in a somewhat overzealous attempt to force him to come to terms with his fear of losing his daughter (at the time, the subject of a custody dispute between himself and his ex - wife). he breaks the spell by taking her to the edge of town and leading her into one of the portals, at which point the machine declares him cured and allows him to wake up .
in arthur c clarke' s novella the lion of comarre, the protagonist discovers that
comarre
, a rumored place that is occasionally sought out by people who are never seen again, is a robotic lotus eater machine facility. the government tries to keep the truth hidden, and to keep people away — but not very hard, as it' s considered a good safety valve for those who would otherwise be disruptive .
interestingly, brock knows full well what the machine is capable of, having dived in to throw another to safety. he' s apparently enjoying an eternal battle against countless ninjas, dinosaurs, monsters, robots, and ninja robots riding dinosaurs. at least for a while until he yells out
okay already! geez !
, at which point they all vanish, and molotov cocktease shows up, finally giving herself to him .
) used this trope in his jonni future stories. one of jonni' s enemies is the empress of the end, who trades people all their earthly possessions to experience a (fatal) experience of their heart' s greatest desire. a surprising number of people willingly make this trade, but when the empress kidnaps jonni' s sidekick, jermaal van pavane the paraman and forcibly submits him to the machine, she has to rescue him .
the tick in
evil sits down for a moment
: the villain traps the tick in the
world' s comfiest chair ,
which is so comfy that nobody ever wants to stand up again after sitting in it. no imaginary worlds or anything are involved; it' s just that comfy. the episode ends (like most serious examples of this trope) with the villain getting trapped in her own lotus - eater machine .
takes place entirely within a lotus eater machine, and although the viewers know this from the very start, the story revolves around the main characters figuring this out. it might not seem perfect at first (there' s a three - way gang war going on, and violence is common) but as one character puts it ,
shibuya has everything that you young people want: the latest styles, fashions, entertainment, you name it .
suzumi gets put under one that mentally returns her to a happier time, when her husband was still alive and the two were excitedly awaiting their first child. while the machine is destroyed, she willingly remains behind because she is happy. it isn' t until yuuhi forces her to remember that kazuma is dead that she gets shaken out of her stupor, also remembering how she chose to continue to live to take care of her brother - in - law .
codename kids next door: a villain makes numbuh one think he' s on an island inhabited only by kids and only discovers there' s a glitch in the matrix during a pool party. in the end, the machine is put on the villain, and, in a rarity for this trope, this villain is left aware of this and miserable. it' s later revealed that the knd scientists kept the device to use for a secret test of character .
that' s what kusanagi finds herself becoming at the end of the film — not an individual, and not a hybrid borne of her merger with project 2501, but a process incarnate, one borne of all that she and 2501 both were. where is she to go from there? that' s not only her question anymore, but all of ours — and not just at this particular moment in time, when the possibilities of fusing human and machine intelligence grow ever closer, but in every moment through human history when we embraced some irreversible change. add fire to the human race and you have a new human race; likewise, add machines and machine intelligence, and you have something that is no less post - human. add kusanagi to the puppet master, and what ghost hatches from that shell? from what little we see, a creature of curiosity and intelligence, and — i hope — of compassion as well. it had better be, for all our sakes .
“the title will be yume - miru kikai. in english, it will be the dream machine. on the surface, it’s going to be a fantasy - adventure targeted at younger audiences. however, it will also be a film that people who have seen our films up to this point will be able to enjoy. so it will be an adventure that even older audiences can appreciate. there will be no human characters in the film; only robots. it’ll be like a “road movie ” for robots. ”
the title will be yume - miru kikai. in english, it will be the dream machine. on the surface, it' s going to be a fantasy - adventure targeted at younger audiences. however, it will also be a film that people who have seen our films up to this point will be able to enjoy. so it will be an adventure that even older audiences can appreciate. there will be no human characters in the film; only robots. it' ll be like a
road movie
for robots .
sk: the title will be yume miru kikai. in english, it will be the dream machine. on the surface, it' s going to be a fantasy - adventure targeted at younger audiences. however, it will also be a film that people who have seen our films up to this point will be able to enjoy. so it will be an adventure that even older audiences can appreciate. there will be no human characters in the film; only robots. it' ll be like a
road movie
for robots .
the title will be yume - miru kikai. in english, it will be the dream machine. on the surface, it' s going to be a fantasy - adventure targeted at younger audiences. however, it will also be a film that people who have seen our films up to this point will be able to enjoy. so it will be an adventure that even older audiences can appreciate. there will be no human characters in the film; only robots. it' ll be like a
road movie
for robots .
my biggest regret is the film
dreaming machine
. i' m worried not only about the film itself, but about the staff with whom i was able to work with on the film. after all, there' s a strong possibility that the storyboards that were created with (our) blood, sweat and tears will never be seen. this is because satoshi kon put his arms around the original story, the script, the characters and the settings, the sketches, the music... every single image. of course there are things that i shared with the animation director, the art director and other staff [ members ], but basically most of the work can only be understood by satoshi kon. it' s easy to say that it was my fault for arranging things this way, but from my point of view i made every effort to share my vision with others. however, in my current state i can only feel deep remorse for my inadequacies in these areas. i am really sorry to all of the staff. however, i want them to understand, if only a little bit. satoshi kon was
that kind of guy
, and, that' s why he was able to make rather weird anime that was a bit different. i know this is a selfish excuse, but think of my cancer and please forgive me .
the reason that i have faith in the project is that it is in the hands of people who have worked very closely with kon for years. yoshimi itazu, who worked as an animator on paprika and animation director on paranoia agent, will be taking over
the dream machine
as acting director. toshiyuki inoue, who has worked on every one of kon' s projects since millennium actress, will be joint animation director. and, of course, susumu hirasawa, who magnificently scored millennium actress, paprika, and paranoia agent, will compose the film .
accelerando by charles stross: some sufficiently advanced aliens discover an islamic scholar, and become interested in his beliefs. so they decide to throw him into a virtual reality version of paradise, complete with 72 virgins. he responds by locking himself in the highest tower he can find and praying, as he knows immediately this isn' t fluffy cloud heaven; he' s a scholar, his idea of paradise is infinite knowledge straight from the most omniscient source around. interesting in that this is the sort of lotus eater machine that you can' t break out of, even if you know it' s not real. he has to be rescued by someone outside .
in simon kurt unsworth' s thomas fool novels, heaven is one giant lotus - eater machine for the good souls that inhabit it, as they experience whatever happiness they imagine. as a detective on loan from hell, thomas fool isn' t affected by this and so he finds heaven to be a lonely and somewhat disappointing paradise with many bigoted angels and souls lost in sleep. otoh, heaven is still magnitudes better than hell, where damned souls suffer boredom and frustration during the times when they' re not suffering from gang rapes by scorching demons or spending their days being force - fed shit before crapping it out and using their hands to till the manure into soil .
stargate atlantis: in the episode
home
, the characters think they' ve found a way to return to earth, though it doesn' t become apparent until about midway through the episode that their lotus eater machine is individual and doesn' t include the others. each of their worlds was designed with everything they wanted to keep them from fighting back, but starts defying logic in ways that provoke their suspicion. major sheppard somehow figured this out early, and to test it, included in his mental fantasy a sweet apartment he had never seen, an attractive girl that he remembers (unsuccessfully) asking out, and two of his deceased friends showing up without explanation .
kara: you know, jimmy, i spent twenty years of my lifeabout fifty - eight of them, in your timein a dream. in the symbioship. there was no way i could have stayed sane on a rocket journey that took twenty years to complete. my father, zor - l, he anticipated that and created the dream programming. i was dreaming for twenty years, with the computer making a simulation in which i... lived... i went to school, i met people, all based on real people my parents knew on krypton, i did things, had adventures, fell in loveand the guys whom i fell in love with always had to leave. i never knew why. then to find out it was part of a frabbing computer... great rao, i almost hated daddy. but i knew why he had to do it. i would have gone insane otherwise. we didn' t know enough about suspended animation, and the spacewarp kal' s rocket went through had moved on .
for centuries, thanks in part to the writings of marco polo, legend had it that the medieval sect of nizari ismailis (hashashim) were brainwashed to lay down their lives for the cult via a low - tech lotus - eater machine. new recruits would be drugged unconscious, then awaken in a
paradise
garden full of luxurious feasts and beautiful women, only to be
restored to life
after a night' s indulgence with the promise of a return to that place of pleasure upon death. the banquets, garden, and female companionship were, of course, all set up in advance by the cult' s leaders, the better to ensure the recruits' compliance with their often - suicidal tasks as assassins. (better understanding of nizari beliefs about the afterlife, plus the conspicuous absence of any such garden in or near the real sect' s historical base of operations, have helped to debunk this account. )
the novel version of
better than life
ends with lister having to make the decision whether to stay in the simulation or return to the hardships of traveling back to an earth six million years in the future where he may well be the last human as he understands it. talk about a downer ending. the second novel reveals that the lotus eater machine digs deep into their psyche, bringing to light their deepest desires. which, unfortunately for rimmer (or fortunately, since it is what breaks them out of the fake paradise), revolves around his self - loathing. rimmer' s self - hatred ends up destroying the dream world. when they finally leave, they find that reality is suspiciously better than it should be (lister' s 2nd cup of coffee tastes better than the first, he drops a slice of buttered toast 20 times and it always lands butter side up, a tv dinner tastes better than its cardboard box, etc .) and discover that they' re still in the game, at which point the game designer appears and congratulates them for figuring it out, then lets them leave.
dreaming machine ( 夢みる機械 yume miru kikai ) is an unfinished japanese anime fantasy-adventure film by satoshi kon . it would have been the director 's fifth feature film . after kon 's death on august 24 , 2010 , production continued at madhouse , where the team used satoshi kon 's directorial tapes and notes to guide them to completing the film , though the main work such as storyboards and script was already complete . in august 2011 , madhouse founder masao maruyama revealed that production of the film had been halted due to lack of finances . only 600 of 1,500 shots have been animated . however , maruyama still intends to finish the film , however long it takes . 
dreaming machine (夢みる機械 yume miru kikai) is an unfinished japanese anime fantasy-adventure film by satoshi kon. it would have been the director's fifth feature film. after kon's death on august 24, 2010, production continued at madhouse, where the team used satoshi kon's directorial tapes and notes to guide them to completing the film, though the main work such as storyboards and script was already complete. in august 2011, madhouse founder masao maruyama revealed that production of the film had been halted due to lack of finances. only 600 of 1,500 shots have been animated. however, maruyama still intends to finish the film, however long it takes.
dreaming machine (夢みる機械 yume miru kikai) is an unfinished japanese anime fantasy-adventure film by satoshi kon. it would have been the director's fifth feature film. after kon's death on august 24, 2010, production continued at madhouse, where the team used satoshi kon's directorial tapes and notes to guide them to completing the film, though the main work such as storyboards and script was already complete. in august 2011, madhouse founder masao maruyama revealed that production of the film had been halted due to lack of finances. only 600 of 1,500 shots have been animated. however, maruyama still intends to finish the film, however long it takes.