Movies That Were Inspired by Dreams by Guido Baechler

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Top Five Movies That Were Inspired by Dreams

• By Guido Baechler

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1 Stuart Little
The beloved childrens story of a mouse named
Stuart Little was inspired by a dream that E.B.
White had in the 1920s. The anything-but-ordinary
mouse was born into a family of humans in New
York City and lived with his parents, his older
brother George, and a cat named Snowbell. While
he was sleeping on a train, White dreamt of a
little boy who looked and acted a lot like a
mouse.
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2 Inception
The 2010 psychological thriller Inception, a
movie that is itself about dreams, was inspired
by actual dreams. Director Christopher Nolan took
the idea from his own lucid dreams for his
seventh feature film. The film stars Leonardo
DiCaprio as a talented thief who is very skilled
at stealing secrets from people while they are
dreaming. This new job, however, requires him to
plant an idea inside the mind of a man instead of
stealing it.
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3 Terminator
The 1984 hit movie The Terminator starred Arnold
Schwarzenegger as a futuristic cyborg sent back
in time to assassinate a woman whose unborn son
will lead humans in a war against machines.
Director/writer James Cameron was staying at a
hotel in Rome while working on Piranha II The
Spawning when a horrible flu and high fever hit
him, causing him to have nightmares. Then he came
up with the idea for Terminator
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4 Twilight
Twilight is the story of a modern day love
triangle between a vampire, a werewolf, and a
human.?The idea for the book came to author
Stephenie Meyer in a dream. She explained her
dream by saying ?It was two people in kind of a
little circular meadow with a really bright
sunlight, and one of them was a beautiful,
sparkly boy and one was just a girl who was human
and normal, and they were having this
conversation.
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5 Sophies Choice
In the mid-1970s, William Styron was struggling
to come up with ideas to write another book.
Thats when he experienced a dream that would
inspire him to write Sophies Choice. He
described the dream as a merging from the dream
to a conscious vision and a memory of this girl
named Sophie. He felt like he had to write the
Holocaust-themed story and in 1982 an acclaimed
movie was made starring Meryl Streep as Sophie.
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