SF’s Greatest Dreams
From Buffy to Carrie via Thunderbirds – 26 of SFX’s favourite dream moments from SF and fantasy…
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26 Medium
Various
Okay, we kick off with a bit of a cheat – since Medium is a series about psychic dreams we could have filled the entire list with examples from numerous episodes, because it so often comes up with brilliantly bat’s-arse imagery. Favourites include the cartoon killer chimps and the faux black and white silent movie. But if we had to pick one, then let’s go for Allison’s dream about how we never die in dreams in “Bite Me” with it’s bewildering array of archive footage and a very odd final twist when Allison apparently wakes up as Vampira for no obvious reason.
25 Doctor Who
“Amy’s Choice”
The third Doctor was a habitual dreamer, but it wasn’t until the Eleventh Doctor arrived that Doctor Who really tackled the subject of dreams full on. Even then, the Time Lord’s tussle with the Dream Lord (his alter ego) was, for the most part, a rather undream-like affair, featuring two interconnected stories that weren’t too far from his normal adventures. Killer OAPs with serpents in their mouths may be bizarre for most of us, but for the Doctor, well, that’s just business as usual. The episode does deserve its place here though, for a couple of wonderful dream-logic moments, including the quite beautiful image of an ice star, and the freaky birdsong that signalled the leap from one dream to another.
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Tags: A Nightmare On Elm Street, Aliens, An American Werewolf In London, Angel, Ashes To Ashes, Blade Runner, Brazil, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Carrie, Doctor Who, Jacob’s Ladder, Life On Mars, Medium, Metropolis, Rosemary’s Baby, Star Trek: First Contact, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, The Company Of Wolves, The Fly, The Prisoner, The Science Of Sleep, Thunderbirds, True Blood, Twin Peaks, Vanilla Sky
