Stanley Kubricks “Eyes Wide Shut” is a great film, its full of symbolism and hidden meaning for the viewer to unravel and understand. The film is also the centre of elaborate conspiracy theories and is the last film Kubrick created before his death weeks after its release, spurring the fuel for online conspiracy theories to take hold. The film was also initially banned on its release, which raises suspicion as the content of the film doesn't seem although it violates standards that would warrant its banning, However it does explore themes and topics that the viewer may find unsettling and disturbing, such as sex rituals, our primitive instincts, and the exploration of these themes by societies “elite”. I highly recommend this film, it is a great piece of cinema and opens the viewers mind to various concepts and themes in a digestible, thought provoking and entertaining disposition.

The character that I term “The Purple Reign” is seen in “Eyes Wide Shut” during Tom Cruise’s ritual encounter, he wears a gold mask and has a long purple robe. From the pieces of this dream that I am able to remember and piece together, this dream was long and intense and revolved around a vial of purple liquid. This purple liquid was the ether, it was the source of universal energy and held great power within it, and therefore was the centre of a great battle between the Mirror Man and The Purple Reign. In this dream, this battle took place over a course of weeks and was situated in the back streets and hidden corners of a populated metropolis, Secret labs, government buildings and black book projects all played a part in the Purple Reigns infrastructure. For weeks, Mirror Man and his side kick searched for the Purple Vial, finding clues and unravelling its location amidst the secret government labs working on black book projects. Finding the vial was not enough, the forces seeking the vial would never rest until they controlled it, the vial must be secured and implemented into the harmonious balance of nature, not to be controlled or used for personal gain. In our plight to search for this vial, we too must operate in the shadows, for the forces we work against are so dark that operating in the light would only make us vulnerable targets, as we were under constant attack from the agencies hitmen.

After weeks of breaking into secret government controlled facilities, hacking computers and evading capture, we eventually found the purple vial, frozen deep in a military controlled vault, think Stranger Things. Finding and securing the vial was the relatively easy part, keeping it away from the Purple Reign was the hard part, This resulted in perpetual evading from Purple Reigns hit men and military agency, this could not go on forever, it was only a matter of time before these forces captured us and retrieved the vial which we, simply, could not allow to happen. We had to take action and put the course of the vial into our own hands. Due to the volume of data that we had retrieved from the Purple Reigns facilities, we knew that the Purple Reign would report to his dark overlords and attend the Black Lodge every full moon; we knew that this was our opportunity to strike and hatched a plan.

We would ambush The Purple Reign when he least suspects it, just before he opens the portal to the black lodge on the next full moon. However this did not go as planned, The Purple Reign was aware of our plan, and had hatched a counter operative. With the full moon beaming, deep within a misty forest we waited for The Purple Reign to appear. Out of the fog, a figure appears approaching us, its The Purple Reign brandishing a long woven silver knife. Within an instant, the purple reign rushes towards me and plunges his knife deep into the side of my abdomen, an excruciating pain takes hold and dark energy seeps into the core of my being, stripping me of my life force from the inside and I lose my ability to move, collapsing to the floor, I pass out, my consciousness entering a void full of sweet nothing. As my consciousness falls into and through this void, I see distant lights begin to flicker, its the life force in all of its divinity, it surrounds me from all angles, encapsulating my being, and in a swift moment, the light force rushes into the centre of my being, rebuilding my physical form from the bottom up and in an instant, I am reborn. Reborn, I awaken to the forest, The Purple Reign looms his dagger over my side kick, ready to plunge them into the depths of the void that he had sent me to. Without hesitation, I pull a knife out from my cloak, a polished silver chrome knife, in the centre, a circle within a circle and the purple vial lodged in the middle, it had four points that pointed in the north, south, east and west direction. As The Purple Reign raised his dagger, ready to plunge it into my ally terminating his physical existence. Rapidly I act, plunging my symbolic dagger into the back of The Purple Reigns left shoulder, the purple vial seeped through the blade and into The Purple Reign's being, which seeped through his form like a unstoppable growth, corroding the nature of his form and slowly corroding and turning him into a congealed purple goo. Turning to me in a state the state of agony instigated through my actions, he screams “what have you done to me?” before slowly dissipating into this purple sludge.

It was then that I arose from this dream, returning to my physical form, and as I realigned my senses into waking life, I could feel something quiet strange, a strong physical pain existed in my stomach, in the exact spot where The Purple Reign had stabbed me, stripping me of the life force. This sensation only lasted for a few seconds but it was clearly there and it was intriguing to me, for I had never felt physical sensations in my waking body resulting from a dream. To me, the physical sensation that I felt was reflective of just how powerful and meaningful this dream was to my psyche, it went beyond what my mind was experiencing and was even perpetuated by my bodily senses, which was a first for me.