#lucids benjamin

[lullabyashes]

What are Memories if not Dreams Themselves?

[monarchetype]

hey can we create all of reality by simultaneously imagining each other and thus ourselves into existence and thereafter share the same brain yet be two different people or are you going to be weird about it

[ghostwhrt]

Oliver & Benjamin 💚🧡

[pandalandalopalis]

So what happens when the people inside of our dreams go to sleep? What happens to them when we wake up? Do they go on living like we’re there? Or do they just pause until we go back to bed? And who are they anyway — are they pieces of our consciousness, our memories. . . . Or do they evolve independently in a place in our minds we can’t quite reach? Because I mean, like, and this is purely hypothetical, but if you grew up with a deep —and I mean, like, God deep— understanding that the squirrel in Spongebob was your soulmate, would that make every single person in your dreamscape a secret Sandy simp? I don’t know— You know what I’m trying to say? Oliver? Oliver? Oliver?

LUCIDS — acted, written, directed, edited, and scored by Nicholas Podany

[pandalandalopalis]

"I remember this one journal article you told me about that theorized that time is constant, and that the future and the past all already exist — always have, always will. And that we as consciousnesses are just being moved through in little slices of now. And if I'm right in remembering that, it means two things. One: that I'm a good listener, ha ha. And two: that life is basically like a film. It's all set: beginning, middle, and end. And all the characters have no choice but to go through frame by frame. And there are moment where you laugh, moments where you cry, moments where you get bored, moments where you fall asleep — and then there are your favourite moments, moments that you wish you could rewatch over and over and over again and for me my favourite scene of the movie is waking up next to you. And I've rewatched that scene for the past five years and I'm still not bored of it. Which I can say of nothing else other than the Hoth battle sequence in Empire Strikes Back. And so if all of this is true . . . and life really is an unchanging film — all I can do is really, really hope . . . that you'll make today my new favourite scene."

—Benjamin practices his proposal speech in Lucids, written, directed, edited, and scored by Nicholas Podany