Lucid Dreaming

(The 100 Day Film Project)

Dir: Dr Tom Young

Role: John

Lucid Dreaming delves into the subconscious and surreal. In the late 1980s join Macy as she distances herself from her corrupt and unscrupulous mother. Macy seeks to come to terms with her trauma through self-reflection and dream journaling, only to discover the ability to lucid dream.

The title image from Lucid Dreaming

Be taken on a journey of discovery, exploring dreams through a unique first-person point of view. Macy finds that lucid dreaming can unlock the potential of the human mind by accelerating learning and developing greater internal awareness. Now in the current day Macy is in her 60s, and is the leader of a mysterious group promoting the power of lucid dreaming. Macy has assembled a collection of dream experts, and is beginning to handpick new recruits to grow her movement and change the world.

In this film I played the character John, one of the new dreamers being recruited by Macy to join the movement. The restrictions of the film (being completed start to finish in 100 days) actually gave us actors a fair amount of freedom to play with our characters, Tom is a very collaborative director and writer, so we were able to influence the dialogue in rehearsal to help shape our journeys. It was a really fun experience and I’m looking forward to working with Tom and Frankie Films again in the future.

The full film is available to watch on YouTube via the link below.