Progress in Paprika

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMonh0QyKHs - 7:41

    I have a retreat this weekend with my monastic community starting tomorrow night and ending on

Sunday.  Even though we aren't going anywhere, I still feel as though I should do my post for this

week before this retreat starts.  I have talked to a friend via Facebook about the movie I reflect on in

this post since working on my previous post.  He mentioned that Paprika is like the anime

predecessor of the movie Inception.  I never saw Inception, but I know what it's about and that like

the movie Paprika, it involves the use of dreams.  However, as the video I use for this reflection

suggests, Paprika is more than just a movie about using dreams.  It also talks about the importance of

progress.

     As the video also mentions, progress is like a storm.  Using dreams to help with this progress is

just part of this storm.  Dreams themselves are also a storm, meaning a storm is also part of this

storm of progress.  Like progress, dreams are difficult to figure out due to their nature of being like

storms.  However, in order to figure them out, they both need to be experienced in both reality and

fiction, or when awake and asleep.   



   

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