Dream Catcher

Freddie Krueger, to me, is one of the most enduring movie characters of all time. Freddie, in the 80s slasher flick, A Nightmare on Elm Street, stalks that unmarked line between dreams and reality, this world and the other one. He is powerless in the real world, but he can kill you in your dreams. I have read that Wes Craven was inspired to make Nightmare after reading a news story about Taiwanese children who died in their sleep after experiencing horrific nightmares.
I have always been fascinated by the surreality of dreams. This whole vividity of REM dreams is more Alladinesque to me than Einsteinish. I am told, the congenital blind do not have vivid dreams because they have no visual references. But they do experience dreams that are sensory. That's incredible, to be able to dream a little dream that you sense and not see.
The interpretation of a dream, Freudian or Floydian, is just that ... an interpretation. What interests me is the construct. Imagine having the power to engineer your dream. To be able to create a world that you want to inhabit in your dreams; drag and drop people, places, emotions, colours, situations.
To be able to paint your dreamscape, would be to play God. To create that parallel universe where you never lose, where everybody loves you and not Raymond, where you pay no taxes, and everyone looked like Michelle Pfieffer. Imagine, John.