Altered States

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Have any of you seen the movie Altered States starring William Hurt and directed by Kurt Russell It was based on a book by Chayefsky and based on real research around isolation tanks its from the 1980's... I loved it although it is quite dated now :) the interesting concept from this movie that relates to Prometheus is about other states of consciousness- and the possibility of ancient memories I thought there could be ideas for when people go into the cyro-pods and references to dreaming with David observing Shaw and apparantly communicating with Weyland

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July 16, 2012

ahhh ALTERED STATES. One of my fave movies of all time [img]http://iamyouasheisme.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/altered-states.jpg[/img] But hardly anything you can pinpoint has having to do with Prometheus. Even the Religious thing has diferent aproaches to it [Prometheus is about aliens, Altered States is about childhood frustration due to daddy not being religious and drugs] Dated? more or less, still has great Fxs on it.

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July 16, 2012

I love it too :) and yes the themes are different I guess I was thinking about experimental flotation tanks and that is about consciousness/dreaming and ideas shared around here have referred to dreaming and consciousness in humans/AI

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July 16, 2012

yes, but there is no AI in Altered States... just a guy reaching out for his inner monkey and pile of amorphous goo. But I get what you mean, but can't agree on that point friend.

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ha ha ha ha ha ha ha accepted David1 :) mind you...... I bet David 8 wishes HE could reach his inner monkey! :)

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July 16, 2012

inner monkey lololo

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Sky, you have to embrace the inner monkey

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July 16, 2012

do you reckon the Engineers have Inner Monkeys? ha ha ha ha ha

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July 16, 2012

If there is inner monkey then what am I? :P

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July 16, 2012

outie Engineer? ")

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July 16, 2012

LOL XD

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July 16, 2012

I WANNA MONKEY! DANCE FOR YOUR KING MONKIES!!! :-D I gotta lay off this cough syrup I think -_O

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I had a little monkey I sent him to the country and fed him on gingerbread Along came a choo-choo Knoked my monkey coo-coo And now my monkey is dead monkey monkey monkey

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July 16, 2012

LOL XD

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