Marko – still reeling from the fact that you’ve deigned to comment on my blog. even if your comment is virtually unintelligible.

Immo – you should watch both Inception and Cobra. and i take your Inception infographic and raise you Pulp Fiction: http://www.slashfilm.com/wp/wp-content/images/zz4140be0b.jpg (by the same guys)

Dan – I feel your pain. MOON trod on some ideas I’d been playing around with for a while. Probably serves us both right for not managing to do anything about it I see what you’re saying about the time slowing down thing btw, but as cinematic devices go, it’s one I can live with, in terms of how it affects the visual dynamics of the final third.

Ma – the norm is not to comment, and I think most people just don’t have time. I get the odd comment on here from strangers, but mostly it’s people I know. It’s always lovely when people take the time to add something though, the notifications are pretty much my favourite type of email to receive. The key thing is if people do comment you should always try and make time to reply x

One idea that I didn’t like underpinned the whole narrative of the film. The idea that you can perceive more time in a dream than in waking life. That’s just bollocks. Since lucid dreamers can move their actual body’s eyes from their dreams some experiments were carried out on a sample of them. They were asked to move their eyes to count seconds. Since they were counting from their dream it was designed to measure the difference between a dream second and a waking second. They found that dream time is pretty much identical. The only way you can experience long stretches of time in a dream is the same as the way you experience long stretches of time in a film – ruthless editing! So that whole knowledge kind of irritated and distanced me from the concept.

Still though. I’m biased. I’ve been developing an almost identical idea (mine has a working title of ‘Dream Doubt’) for 10 years. And now I may have to bin it. (Even the last shot was pretty much identical.) Scuppered by the collective unconscious once again. But when you think about it, if anyone else was going to have that idea, it was always going to be a film director. Because film’s are like dreams. When making films a director hopes to make it as believable as possible. To make the experience lucid. He hopes to blur the audience’s line between reality and film. So he likes the idea of a merging of reality and dream.

One thing that amazed me, was the extent to which the audience understood the concepts without much explanation. We all dream. We all know what he’s on about. Dreams are real after all. We really do dream!

When I stepped out of the cinema and walked into the car park and a train went past. I listened to the sound very carefully. Then I looked around and noticed the wind in the trees. For a short moment I wondered if I was dreaming. Or maybe I was still watching the film. That’s what I wanted to happen with my film… Bastard!!

Then there is the added dimension of Di Caprio – best film, of late for me …. God – how to choose – down to three it would be between Gangs of New York (although Day Lewis steals the show I loved i Caprio in it), Blood Diamond – just for all out gun toteing, head in hands dispair combined with balck comedic one liners or The Departed – clever, sharp and engrossing took me by surprise to the end and was an accidental watch in the cinema – one of those , lets go and see whats on trips which resulted in us leaving saying what an unexpectedly great film …