How bout the movie Stay - Is this reality just a flashback created by random firing neurons creating characters picked up by my visual cortex of the people around me, while I am dying? Disclaimer:All these thoughts,
words arranged in this message,
come from the Tao
and return to the Tao.
Yet they do not touch it.
Each of us will perceive the message,
Yet to each our own interpretation.
I'll see you when the river meets us
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Escape from new york.. alternate future, am I dying?
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Blueberry (Renegade)
this movie has the best depiction of a ayahausca journey, crazy visuals
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the butterfly effect(part 1 as the other one is shit) revolver eternal sunshine of the spotless mind passengers (a little cheesy ) well you've got a pretty good list anyways  waking life and pi are really amazing illusions !, there are no illusions
there is only that which is the truth
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LIMITLESS - perfect We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.
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We are all living in our own feces.
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The Man From EarthBeware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. - Bokonon
To fathom Hell or soar angelic, just take a pinch of psychedelic. - Humphry Osmond in a poetic exchange with Aldous Huxley
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Anyone ever see "the forgotten"? I just saw a preview for it and it looks like a film that belongs in this thread: "What if they told you that everything you remember was just a dream". I'll have to check it out! JBArk JBArk is a Mandelthought; a non-fiction character in a drama of his own design he calls "LIFE" who partakes in consciousness expanding activities and substances; he should in no way be confused with SWIM, who is an eminently data-mineable and prolific character who has somehow convinced himself the target he wears on his forehead is actually a shield.
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I only have one recommendation that hasn't been mentioned yet.
2001: A Space Odyssey, has everything to do with DMT and almost gives you the meaning of life in just over 2 hours.
BTW, if you have seen it already make sure to watch the youtube video 2001 Echoes. Its a sync of Pink Floyd's song Echoes to the final scene of 2001. This may be hard to find on youtube due to copyright, but its easy to set up. Just start the song on the final chapter "Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite"
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I recently rewatched Contact and kept thinking how easily the 'trip scene' and everything that is said about it could 1-to-1 be used for a dmt experience as well. Really liked thinking of it that way. Sorry if this has already been mentioned in the thread  It's just such a good movie! Buon viso a cattivo gioco! --- The Open Hyperspace Traveler Handbook - A handbook for the safe and responsible use of entheogens. --- mushroom-grow-help ::: energy conserving caapi extraction
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this is more alternative realities in the minds of people, but what the heck eternal sunshine of the spotless mind Travel through someones mind and his attempts to save it, although the intro is quite slow and confusing Sucker Punch presents a dream within a dream within a dream, triggered through traumatic experience shutter island elaborate story in the mind of a schizophrenic The matrix gets presented more in detail in the anime movie from the animatrix collection the second renaissance Quote:Your flesh is a relic, a mere vessel. Hand over your flesh and a new wold awaits you. ... we demand it blessed be all forms of intelligence
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Speaking of Kaufman (^^^) i can't believe I forgot "SYNECDOCHE NEW YORK" !! A story about a theater director who mounts a play about his own life, in which the character representing him mounts a play within the play about his own life, in which the character representing him mounts... Things get awfully tangled in the plays within plays within plays, until we're no longer sure what is the play(s) and what is reality. Great title too: clearly a play on the existing city Shenectady, "synecdoche" means to mistake the part for the whole. More accurately, it means: Part of something is used to refer to the whole thing (pars pro toto), or A thing (a "whole"  is used to refer to part of it (totum pro parte), or A specific class of thing is used to refer to a larger, more general class, or A general class of thing is used to refer to a smaller, more specific class, or A material is used to refer to an object composed of that material, or A container is used to refer to its contents. The film is also Kaufman's directorial debut! JBArk JBArk is a Mandelthought; a non-fiction character in a drama of his own design he calls "LIFE" who partakes in consciousness expanding activities and substances; he should in no way be confused with SWIM, who is an eminently data-mineable and prolific character who has somehow convinced himself the target he wears on his forehead is actually a shield.
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has anyone mentioned Inception yet?! A dream within a dream within a dream, layers of concioussness, the minds prison etc... Cool Runnings - bobsledding in JAMAICA?! C'mon! Fear and Loathing - a distorted view of reality through the eyes of two highly psychedelicised reprobates. Lose Control, Free My Soul, Break Me Open, Make Me Whole."DMT kicked my balls off" - od3
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The Big Lebowski, man. Maude Lebowski: What do you do for recreation? The Dude: Oh, the usual. I bowl. Drive around. The occasional acid flashback. "Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." -A.Huxley
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Wow, so many great films here. And, so many more to check out... Absolutely loved Waking Life (and Linklater's other live animated flick A Scanner Darkly which could fit here as well). A lot of these films try pretty hard, and some succeed better than others. The Fountain is a pretty valiant attempt. Less successful, but still not mentioned yet would be What Dreams May Come, the painting reality scene alone is worth the price of admission. I don't think anyone mentioned Alice In Wonderland yet... the Disney animated version is still my fav. Michel Gondry's The Science Of Sleep from 2006 { La science des rêves original French title} surely deserves to be here. Eternal Sunshine Made the list, but this one is at least as trippy. Dragon Hunters the 2008 CGI one {original title Chasseurs de dragons} is not entirely successful, but it has its serious otherworldly moments, and captures the mania of psychedelic dreamtime rather well. Thanks for this thread, JBark. As a fellow screenwriter and novelist, I say the more films like this out there the better. I'm sure more flix will occur to me if I think about it. [EDIT: Just watched Coraline based on the recommendations here... dug it. Thanks everyone!] "Curiouser and curiouser..." ~ Alice
"Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it." ~ Buddha
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A new one, though not exactly "alternate reality": TRANSFERA german flick that deals with a new technology capable of "transferring" one consciousness into another body. Let me know what you think! Bon Cinema! JBArk JBArk is a Mandelthought; a non-fiction character in a drama of his own design he calls "LIFE" who partakes in consciousness expanding activities and substances; he should in no way be confused with SWIM, who is an eminently data-mineable and prolific character who has somehow convinced himself the target he wears on his forehead is actually a shield.
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I hope that no one posted this before. A pretty contorted movie... Listen to a man of experience: thou wilt learn more in the woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach thee more than thou canst acquire from the mouth of a master. St. Bernard
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Shrek - a place where Fairy Tales are REAL!!! Lose Control, Free My Soul, Break Me Open, Make Me Whole."DMT kicked my balls off" - od3
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What about Dark City? Definitely one of my favorite films in this sort of genre. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118929/Sonorous fractal manifestastions,
birthing golden vibrations,
that echo through folds of space & time,
ferry my soul closer to God
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