Series: Are You Dreaming?
An animated anthology about the people who discovered, across nine centuries, that you can know you're dreaming.
On this page
Format: an animated anthology. Each episode tells one true story, in its own animation style, narrated rather than acted. Episodes start at 6–10 minutes.
The thread: every episode contains the same question, “Are you dreaming?”, and the same moment: someone noticing. Across the centuries the cue changes shape: a bell, a question, a hand, a beep.
The frame story: a modern dreamer builds OpenLucid. Each night a story begins. In the finale the dreamer has their own moment of noticing, honestly measured.
Episodes
| # | Episode | What really happened | Style |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Bell | Tibetan dream yoga: a centuries-old practice built around recognizing a dream as a dream | Soft watercolor, mountain light |
| 2 | The Marquis Who Wrote Everything Down | Hervey de Saint-Denys kept dream journals from his teens and published how to guide dreams in 1867 | 19th-century etching |
| 3 | The Dutchman Who Named It | Frederik van Eeden coined the term “lucid dream” in a 1913 paper | Old Dutch painting light |
| 4 | The First Message | Hull, 1975: the first eye signal ever sent from inside a lucid dream | Grainy 1970s |
| 5 | The Signal Heard Round the World | Stanford, a few years later: the same signal, independently, and this time the world listened | Clean 1980s graphics |
| 6 | The Conversation | 2021: researchers in several countries ask dreamers simple questions, and get answers from inside the dream | Modern, sharp |
| 7 | Moose’s Night Shift | Comedy: OpenLucid’s night crew on a chaotic night | Bright cartoon |
| 8 | Are You Dreaming? | Finale: the frame-story dreamer and an honest morning report | All styles together |
The pilot
Episode 4, The First Message, is written. It tells a true story about two real people, based on their own published accounts. We promised to contact them before going further, so the script will be published here once they have had the chance to read and correct it.
Rules for this series
Every episode ends with a truth ledger: what is documented, what is reported by later sources, and what is dramatized, with sources. Real people are drawn stylized, never as likenesses. No invented dialogue is presented as history.