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Game on...on the radio...Padres at Dodgers...wish I could go see one of these...the Godzilla giveaway...nosebleed seat...$150 dollars, plus parking, plus gas to stadium...plus getting there early enough to get the giveaway!...too much...last post, an on about eyelid scrying, little brother of N1 hypnopompic...both of those of REM, lucid dreams...don't have those later...aaand, the feed on occasion drops clips of movie Eyes Wide Shut...💡... that title?...eyelid scrying!...checked...yep...searched AI, Reddit, Youtube...too much...left some comments...
🧐What “Eyes Wide Shut” is really about : r/StanleyKubrick
https://www.reddit.com/r/StanleyKubrick/comments/994q4h/what_eyes_wide_shut_is_really_about/From out of the blue, I realized the title refers to "eyelid scrying"...seeing dream visions awake but your eyelids closed-"eyes wide shut"...that 1926 author was on about this, as Freud...see their friendship...the film, the movie, are about dreams...Kubric on about dreams in his other films too...as the producer of Inception and recently The Odyssey...yt probably has breakdown on this, dreams by these Hollywood producers...🍿
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https://youtu.be/pVSHDozaaz4?is=pAUbjrD8kOfVpavD
Oh, it's the blue story!...had dream that out of the blue talked of Blue Story...of late, I keep an N1 Hypnopompic journal...eyelid scrying-eyes wide shut...peculiar movie I haven't seen, tho feed drops clips...thing to see is the book, books by author, friend of Freud, from 1926...a Hollywood take on dreams-far fetched...🦛🍿
✨️movie eyes wide shut meaning of title eyelid scrying
The title Eyes Wide Shut is a paradox that symbolizes willful blindness—the human tendency to ignore or remain oblivious to uncomfortable truths, elite corruption, and hidden realities right in front of us. [1, 2]Meaning of the Title
Deliberate Ignorance: Like the unblinking, unseeing eyes carved into the Venetian masks in the film, characters choose to keep their minds closed to reality while appearing wide awake.
Social Complicity: The title suggests that society—and the privileged elite—deliberately shut their eyes to moral corruption and exploitation to protect their comfort and status.
Dream State: Adapted from Arthur Schnitzler’s Dream Story (Traumnovelle), the phrase captures a trance-like, somnambulist journey where the protagonist, Bill Harford, wanders through a waking nightmare. [1, 2, 3]
Eyelid Scrying and the Occult Connection
What is Scrying? Scrying is an ancient divination practice where a seer gazes into a reflective or dark surface (like a crystal ball or black mirror) to quiet the conscious mind and perceive visions through the "inner eye".
Eyelid Scrying: This is a specialized, closed-eye form of scrying where a practitioner shuts their physical eyes and stares intently at the back of their own eyelids to induce a trance or pull symbolic images from the subconscious.
Thematic Link: Esoteric analysts connect "eyelid scrying" and occult visual motifs in Eyes Wide Shut to the film's pervasive themes of masking, illusion, and trances. Just as an eyelid scryer looks inward behind a physical barrier to "see" a hidden landscape, Bill navigates a secret world operating completely in plain sight, yet he remains fundamentally blind to its true mechanics until forced to confront the dark reflections of his own society and marriage. [1, 2, 3, 4]
Would you like to explore Stanley Kubrick's use of mirrors and color symbolism in Eyes Wide Shut, or do you want to dive deeper into the source novella Dream Story?
🎶add "Dream Story"...to the list of dream books...and Shnitzler and Freud to curios...I was on about way back in blog about contrast symmetry, paradeila, that stelae in Peru...that took me to ink blots, like the foundation myth of Psychology!...Freud and Young...
✨️about contrast symmetry, paradeila, that stelae in Peru
about contrast symmetry, paradeila, that stelae in Peru
The ancient Peruvian monument you are referring to is the Raimondi Stele (or Raimondi Stone), created by the Chavín culture around 900–200 BCE at the ceremonial site of Chavín de Huántar. [1, 2]
What you are describing as "contrast symmetry" and "pareidolia" is known in art history as contour rivalry. The Chavín artists intentionally designed the stela with strict bilateral symmetry and multi-layered imagery to confuse human perception, creating an artistic Optical illusion. [1, 2]
How the Visual Illusion Works
View Orientation
What You See (The "Pareidolia" Effect)
Symbolic Meaning
Right-Side Up
A fearsome Staff God looking upward with a severe frown. He wears a massive, towering headdress composed of coiled snakes and overlapping volutes.
Represents the supreme deity ruling earth and sky, holding two stalks of the hallucinogenic San Pedro cactus.
Upside Down
The image completely shifts. The deity’s face turns into a smiling, jawed reptile or caiman. His towering crown cascades down as a stacked row of smiling, fanged faces.
Represents a transformation into underworld or jungle
The ancient Peruvian monument you are referring to is the Raimondi Stele (or Raimondi Stone), created by the Chavín culture around 900–200 BCE at the ceremonial site of Chavín de Huántar. [1, 2]
What you are describing as "contrast symmetry" and "pareidolia" is known in art history as contour rivalry. The Chavín artists intentionally designed the stela with strict bilateral symmetry and multi-layered imagery to confuse human perception, creating an artistic Optical illusion. [1, 2]
How the Visual Illusion Works
View Orientation
What You See (The "Pareidolia" Effect)
Symbolic Meaning
Right-Side Up
A fearsome Staff God looking upward with a severe frown. He wears a massive, towering headdress composed of coiled snakes and overlapping volutes.
Represents the supreme deity ruling earth and sky, holding two stalks of the hallucinogenic San Pedro cactus.
Upside Down
The image completely shifts. The deity’s face turns into a smiling, jawed reptile or caiman. His towering crown cascades down as a stacked row of smiling, fanged faces.
Represents a transformation into underworld or jungle
🎶Tommy hit a home run...Dodgers on a romp...Padres 0-Dodgers 6...
✨️movie eyes wide shut is deliberately complex to act as a barrier. Only initiated elites were taught how to properly decode the shapes hidden within the symmetry.
movie eyes wide shut is deliberately complex to act as a barrier. Only initiated elites were taught how to properly decode the shapes hidden within the symmetry.
There is no factual basis or historical evidence to support the claim that Eyes Wide Shut was created with secret codes intended only for "initiated elites."
While Stanley Kubrick’s 1999 film is famously complex, dense with symbolism, and heavily reliant on visual symmetry, film scholars and historians widely agree that these elements serve artistic and psychological purposes rather than a hidden occult agenda.
The Purpose of Symmetry and Symbolism in the Film
Instead of acting as a barrier for elite decoding, the film's complex design functions in several specific ways:
Psychological Mirroring: The heavy use of symmetry and repetitive geometric shapes (such as circles, triangles, and stars) reflects the dual nature of the main characters' marriage, desires, and anxieties.
Dream Logic: Kubrick used vibrant color palettes (contrasting warm Christmas lights with harsh blues) and precise framing to create a surreal, dream-like atmosphere, mimicking the protagonist's descent into a subconscious underworld.
Social Critique: The movie explicitly critiques the real-world decadence, corruption, and unaccountable power of the ultra-wealthy, making the "elite" the subjects of the film's scrutiny rather than its intended audience.
The idea that the film contains hidden geometric puzzles meant for an exclusive group is a popular internet conspiracy theory, often fueled by the mysterious nature of Kubrick's filmmaking style and his untimely death before the film's release.
If you are interested in how the film was actually constructed, I can provide more details. Would you like to explore:
The cinematography techniques Kubrick used to create the dream-like atmosphere?
The literary source material (Traumnovelle) and how it compares to the movie?
How production design and lighting were used to build the film's tension?
🎶welp...it is a "blue movie", beyond the pale...not fitt'n' for mixed company...as are the cosmologies of the pre-columbians...just weird...Ohtani back tomorrow...heck...like to see Ohtani in Dodger stadium...Dodger uniform...I'll find a sports bar...in fact, found one, old one now has pool tables...the Wharf...nearby...real trouble...most of the old dive bars gone, or gone full on nude...Hollywood exagerates common "blueness"...we all dream...pool is like golf...don't talk to me of either...now and then I dream about them...all sports...onset of puberty, like age 13...on set of sports?...I defer to the youtubes...along with Godzilla!...Angels 6-As 5
...top of eighth...bottom of eighth at Dodgers...did I say, it is a gradation...the dream states...scholars like charts...graphs...
✨️frequency of car crash dreams
Car crash and loss-of-control vehicle dreams are surprisingly common, though exact numerical frequency data across the general population is not tracked in rigid clinical percentages. [1, 2]
🎶that, that anxiety is a gradation!...awake, dreaming-all across...back in the day, snakes...one out...K...two down...6-3...Padres 0-Dodgers 7...🎀...Angels 6-As 9...top of ninth...🙄...Angels 7-As 9...
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