Sometimes we get so caught up in a cinematic dream that we think we've actually experienced it, even after waking.

But in the age of "Blade Runner," "Cyborg" and countless other cinematic man-machine dreams, there is rarely any gain without scads of pain.

We've all been there - dead asleep, caught up in the middle of a cinematic dream that feels so real you think you've actually experienced it, even after waking.

Their cinematic dreams dissolve into nightmares and then into bitter reality.

But that does not mean that people are quick to pay for her cinematic dreams.

As you watch Carl suffer hellish mental torments during his final days (the character is 54 but looks much older), his perseverance in the realization of his cinematic dream acquires a certain nobility.

The Edafos Dance Theater's "Medea" suggests a cinematic dream acted out by chalk-white dancer-mimes who move in slow motion when not erupting into emotional outbursts.

Wide-open spaces, or at least a New Yorker's cinematic dream of them, are what Hem is all about.