[OT] Blast from the Past

[Leonard Blaisdell]

I hadn't seen this guy in many, many years.

<https://postimg.cc/hX5K8BDZ>

Anybody?

Here's a hint.

<https://postimg.cc/w7sBWMP8>

and this is what countdown timers looked like in 1953.

<https://postimg.cc/ThfS744R>

The movie always stuck with me. I was about the age of the kid in the
film when it first came out. I forgot it was in color. Thanks, TCM!
Plus, there is a current thread that mentions Martian overlords.

[Ob:Food] How would you cook the Martian? I bet David knows. ;)
We're having smoked ham shanks 'n pintos 'n skillet cornbread tonight.
I'll precede that with a few beers. Yee Haw!

leo

[Rock Stolid]

Post by Leonard Blaisdell
I hadn't seen this guy in many, many years.
<https://postimg.cc/hX5K8BDZ>
Anybody?
Here's a hint.
<https://postimg.cc/w7sBWMP8>
and this is what countdown timers looked like in 1953.
<https://postimg.cc/ThfS744R>
The movie always stuck with me. I was about the age of the kid in the
film when it first came out. I forgot it was in color. Thanks, TCM!
Plus, there is a current thread that mentions Martian overlords.
[Ob:Food] How would you cook the Martian? I bet David knows. ;)
We're having smoked ham shanks 'n pintos 'n skillet cornbread tonight.
I'll precede that with a few beers. Yee Haw!
leo

I bet you dug this one too:

Exeter with a bigger forehead than Payton Manning...

[Leonard Blaisdell]

Post by Rock Stolid
http://youtu.be/iaK6jbI2_t8

I saw that movie. I remember the brain people. I just don't remember the
plot.
In the movie I referenced, I didn't remember that it was all a dream. :(
Old age is Hell! Dad used to say that. Now, I know why.

[ItsJoanNotJoAnn]

Post by Leonard Blaisdell
I hadn't seen this guy in many, many years.
<https://postimg.cc/hX5K8BDZ>
Anybody?
Here's a hint.
<https://postimg.cc/w7sBWMP8>
and this is what countdown timers looked like in 1953.
<https://postimg.cc/ThfS744R>
The movie always stuck with me. I was about the age of the kid in the
film when it first came out. I forgot it was in color. Thanks, TCM!
Plus, there is a current thread that mentions Martian overlords.
[Ob:Food] How would you cook the Martian? I bet David knows. ;)
We're having smoked ham shanks 'n pintos 'n skillet cornbread tonight.
I'll precede that with a few beers. Yee Haw!
leo

Sorry, it's not ringing a bell with me.

Leftovers tonight, but I've taken some beef out of the
freezer and vegetable beef soup sounds good for tomorrow
and a day or two after.

[dsi1]

Post by Leonard Blaisdell
I hadn't seen this guy in many, many years.
<https://postimg.cc/hX5K8BDZ>
Anybody?
Here's a hint.
<https://postimg.cc/w7sBWMP8>
and this is what countdown timers looked like in 1953.
<https://postimg.cc/ThfS744R>
The movie always stuck with me. I was about the age of the kid in the
film when it first came out. I forgot it was in color. Thanks, TCM!
Plus, there is a current thread that mentions Martian overlords.
[Ob:Food] How would you cook the Martian? I bet David knows. ;)
We're having smoked ham shanks 'n pintos 'n skillet cornbread tonight.
I'll precede that with a few beers. Yee Haw!
leo

If you saw this movie when you were between the ages of 7 to 12 it
probably had a big impact on your developing brain. It really does a
number on your conscience and sub-conscience mind. The movie is filmed
as a dream with weird forced perspective, unusual camera angles, and
super saturated color. Luckily, I never saw that movie at such a
vulnerable age. My wife saw it - oops.

That alien looks like a squid or an octopus. I'll bet he'd be tasty if
he was dried and smoked. I'd probably prefer that alien to be on the
spicy side. Yummy!

https://photos.app.goo.gl/gNqKCw5FpSQn24oB9

[Mike Duffy]

movie is filmed as a dream with [...] saturated color.

Tell you 'bout a dream that I have every night,
It ain't Kodachrome and it isn't black or white.

'Psychobabble' (Eye in the Sky) - Alan Parsons 1982

I explained this here already. Awake, we us the
'mammalian' visual cortex (cerebrum after passing
through the optical chiasma) for normal vision.

Dreamstate vision uses the 'reptilian' cortex
in the cerebellum. It is an evolutionary leftover
from our time as lizards &c, because it is still
useful for imagining in 3D and eidetic memomy.

Because of the extra colour receptors of reptiles,
dreaming is always color-blind (from the point of
view of a crocodile), but with the 'color' knob
turned up past saturation to compensate.

[dsi1]

Post by Mike Duffy

movie is filmed as a dream with [...] saturated color.

Tell you 'bout a dream that I have every night,
It ain't Kodachrome and it isn't black or white.
'Psychobabble' (Eye in the Sky) - Alan Parsons 1982
I explained this here already. Awake, we us the
'mammalian' visual cortex (cerebrum after passing
through the optical chiasma) for normal vision.
Dreamstate vision uses the 'reptilian' cortex
in the cerebellum. It is an evolutionary leftover
from our time as lizards &c, because it is still
useful for imagining in 3D and eidetic memomy.
Because of the extra colour receptors of reptiles,
dreaming is always color-blind (from the point of
view of a crocodile), but with the 'color' knob
turned up past saturation to compensate.

Is any of this relevant? Should cinematic representation of dreams be
shot in high-contrast, black & white? It might work but that's not how
it's typically done. It could work, if you could dig up Bela Lugosi.

[Max Demian]

Post by Mike Duffy

movie is filmed as a dream with [...] saturated color.

Tell you 'bout a dream that I have every night,
It ain't Kodachrome and it isn't black or white.
'Psychobabble' (Eye in the Sky) - Alan Parsons 1982
I explained this here already. Awake, we us the
'mammalian' visual cortex (cerebrum after passing
through the optical chiasma) for normal vision.
Dreamstate vision uses the 'reptilian' cortex
in the cerebellum. It is an evolutionary leftover
from our time as lizards &c, because it is still
useful for imagining in 3D and eidetic memomy.
Because of the extra colour receptors of reptiles,
dreaming is always color-blind (from the point of
view of a crocodile), but with the 'color' knob
turned up past saturation to compensate.

Are you saying that dreams are in b/w? I always dream in colour.

[Dave Smith]

Post by Max Demian

Post by Mike Duffy
Dreamstate vision uses the 'reptilian' cortex
in the cerebellum. It is an evolutionary leftover
from our time as lizards &c, because it is still
useful for imagining in 3D  and eidetic memomy.
Because of the extra colour receptors of reptiles,
dreaming is always color-blind (from the point of
view of a crocodile), but with the 'color' knob
turned up past saturation to compensate.

Are you saying that dreams are in b/w? I always dream in colour.

When I was in the hospital for my gall bladder and getting potent pain
killers IV I was dreaming in neon bright.

[dsi1]

Post by Dave Smith

Post by Max Demian

Post by Mike Duffy
Dreamstate vision uses the 'reptilian' cortex
in the cerebellum. It is an evolutionary leftover
from our time as lizards &c, because it is still
useful for imagining in 3D  and eidetic memomy.
Because of the extra colour receptors of reptiles,
dreaming is always color-blind (from the point of
view of a crocodile), but with the 'color' knob
turned up past saturation to compensate.

Are you saying that dreams are in b/w? I always dream in colour.

When I was in the hospital for my gall bladder and getting potent pain
killers IV I was dreaming in neon bright.

I'm wondering if it's possible to read while dreaming. That would be
great to just sit and read a book when you're asleep. I haven't read a
book in years.

[Rock Stolid]

Post by dsi1

Post by Dave Smith

Post by Max Demian

Post by Mike Duffy
Dreamstate vision uses the 'reptilian' cortex
in the cerebellum. It is an evolutionary leftover
from our time as lizards &c, because it is still
useful for imagining in 3D  and eidetic memomy.
Because of the extra colour receptors of reptiles,
dreaming is always color-blind (from the point of
view of a crocodile), but with the 'color' knob
turned up past saturation to compensate.

Are you saying that dreams are in b/w? I always dream in colour.

When I was in the hospital for my gall bladder and getting potent pain
killers IV I was dreaming in neon bright.

I'm wondering if it's possible to read while dreaming. That would be
great to just sit and read a book when you're asleep. I haven't read a
book in years.
http://youtu.be/34jvxw2Ki64

[Dave Smith]

Post by dsi1

Post by Dave Smith
When I was in the hospital for my gall bladder and getting potent pain
killers IV I was dreaming in neon bright.

I'm wondering if it's possible to read while dreaming. That would be
great to just sit and read a book when you're asleep. I haven't read a
book in years.

Good question. Some years ago I was in a book club and the book of the
month was Gulliver's Travels. I had read it at university plus I had
read the comic books and seen the movie as a kid so I was familiar. I
found it boring and hard to read, mainly because of the early 18th
century style of writing. One night I was lying in bed reading it and
turning the pages and really getting into it. All of a sudden I realized
that what I was reading was not Gulliver's Travels. It was a completely
different story. I may well have been asleep and dreaming about reading.

[Rock Stolid]

Post by Dave Smith
I may well have been asleep and dreaming about reading.

You've obviously been sleepwalking through life, so not a surprise.

[jmcquown]

Post by dsi1

Post by Dave Smith
When I was in the hospital for my gall bladder and getting potent pain
killers IV I was dreaming in neon bright.

I'm wondering if it's possible to read while dreaming. That would be
great to just sit and read a book when you're asleep. I haven't read a
book in years.

Why am I not surprised that dsi1 (David) hasn't read a book in years?

Good question.  Some years ago I was in a book club and the book of the
month was Gulliver's Travels. I had read it at university plus I had
read the comic books and seen the movie as a kid so I was familiar. I
found it boring and hard to read, mainly because of the early 18th
century style of writing.  One night I was lying in bed reading it and
turning the pages and really getting into it. All of a sudden I realized
that what I was reading was not Gulliver's Travels.  It was a completely
different story. I may well have been asleep and dreaming about reading.

Comic books, cartoons, movies... so often not like the actual books.
Not necessarily in a good way.

Jill

[Mike Duffy]

Post by dsi1
I'm wondering if it's possible to read while dreaming.

I have had migraine auras during REM sleep. Upon waking,
the aura had progressed as expected 'for real'.

(I have the auras every few weeks, but *never* the severe headache
usually associated with migraine episodes - touching wood as I type.)

[Mike Duffy]

When I was in the hospital [...] potent pain
killers IV I was dreaming in neon bright.

I had a detached retina when I was in for other stuff.

I can remember 'seeing' the blood vessels
move in my eye as a cross between a live electronic
schematic diagram and Google 'Hieroglyphic' view.

Did you ever dream in cartoons? It happened to me a few times.

[Dave Smith]

Post by Mike Duffy

When I was in the hospital [...] potent pain
killers IV I was dreaming in neon bright.

I had a detached retina when I was in for other stuff.
I can remember 'seeing' the blood vessels
move in my eye as a cross between a live electronic
schematic diagram and Google 'Hieroglyphic' view.
Did you ever dream in cartoons? It happened to me a few times.

As a matter of fact, the neon bright dreams I had in the hospital were
Dick Tracy type characters with rat faces.

[Mike Duffy]

Post by Max Demian
Are you saying that dreams are in b/w?

No. I said that compared to the wake state, dreams have a corrupted
color perception most closely related to a particular (& rare) form of
colour blindness.

This has been experimentally verified in the lab by those suffering
from (also rare) sleep disorders that result in a lack of 'dis-connect'
in the major motor nerve pathways. (sleep-walking, sleep-talking, &c)

I read about it in Scientific American a few years back.

Apparently the same form of color blindness is exhibited
by those who suffer from blindsight.

[Max Demian]

Post by Mike Duffy

Post by Max Demian
Are you saying that dreams are in b/w?

No. I said that compared to the wake state, dreams have a corrupted
color perception most closely related to a particular (& rare) form of
colour blindness.
This has been experimentally verified in the lab by those suffering
from (also rare) sleep disorders that result in a lack of 'dis-connect'
in the major motor nerve pathways. (sleep-walking, sleep-talking, &c)
I read about it in Scientific American a few years back.
Apparently the same form of color blindness is exhibited
by those who suffer from blindsight.

*All* dreams? Not mine, which are visually similar to waking reality.

[Rock Stolid]

Post by dsi1

Post by Leonard Blaisdell
I hadn't seen this guy in many, many years.
<https://postimg.cc/hX5K8BDZ>
Anybody?
Here's a hint.
<https://postimg.cc/w7sBWMP8>
and this is what countdown timers looked like in 1953.
<https://postimg.cc/ThfS744R>
The movie always stuck with me. I was about the age of the kid in the
film when it first came out. I forgot it was in color. Thanks, TCM!
Plus, there is a current thread that mentions Martian overlords.
[Ob:Food] How would you cook the Martian? I bet David knows. ;)
We're having smoked ham shanks 'n pintos 'n skillet cornbread tonight.
I'll precede that with a few beers. Yee Haw!
leo

If you saw this movie when you were between the ages of 7 to 12 it
probably had a big impact on your developing brain. It really does a
number on your conscience and sub-conscience mind. The movie is filmed
as a dream with weird forced perspective, unusual camera angles, and
super saturated color. Luckily, I never saw that movie at such a
vulnerable age. My wife saw it - oops.
That alien looks like a squid or an octopus. I'll bet he'd be tasty if
he was dried and smoked. I'd probably prefer that alien to be on the
spicy side. Yummy!
https://photos.app.goo.gl/gNqKCw5FpSQn24oB9

Proper preparation is key:

[Gary]

Post by Leonard Blaisdell
I hadn't seen this guy in many, many years.
<https://postimg.cc/hX5K8BDZ>
Anybody?
Here's a hint.
<https://postimg.cc/w7sBWMP8>
and this is what countdown timers looked like in 1953.
<https://postimg.cc/ThfS744R>
The movie always stuck with me. I was about the age of the kid in the
film when it first came out. I forgot it was in color. Thanks, TCM!
Plus, there is a current thread that mentions Martian overlords.

I saw that movie when I was a kid and loved it! It was scary. After so
many years I got to watch it again about a month or so ago. Still good.
Better than the newer version starring Karen Black as the mom.

Invaders from Mars (1953)

[Rock Stolid]

Post by Gary

Post by Leonard Blaisdell
I hadn't seen this guy in many, many years.
<https://postimg.cc/hX5K8BDZ>
Anybody?
Here's a hint.
<https://postimg.cc/w7sBWMP8>
and this is what countdown timers looked like in 1953.
<https://postimg.cc/ThfS744R>
The movie always stuck with me. I was about the age of the kid in the
film when it first came out. I forgot it was in color. Thanks, TCM!
Plus, there is a current thread that mentions Martian overlords.

I saw that movie when I was a kid and loved it! It was scary. After so
many years I got to watch it again about a month or so ago. Still good.
Better than the newer version starring Karen Black as the mom.
   Invaders from Mars (1953)

+1

Way far better!

[Leonard Blaisdell]

Post by Gary
I saw that movie when I was a kid and loved it! It was scary. After so
many years I got to watch it again about a month or so ago. Still good.
Better than the newer version starring Karen Black as the mom.
Invaders from Mars (1953)

I had no idea that the movie had been redone. Thanks for that!