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  • I like Vesper (2022) as one of the few I know of that focuses on biological technology, and it is part of the story as opposed to a backdrop.

    There’s a lot of body horrror/Cronenburg stuff I like that gets close. Stuff like The Fly, Testuo the Iron Man, Videodrome, etc. But that’s focused more on the “wouldn’t this be fucked up?” than the exploration of biotech.

    Repo Men (2010) and Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008) have a strong focus on the commoditization of the human body and organs especially. Gattaca (1997) is a little similar in that genetic therapy is important to society. And The Island (2005) is centered on cloning. Of these four, I like Repo! the most, but for other reasons than its take on Biopunk.

    eXistenZ (1999) is probably Cronenburg’s most straight forward take of biology as technology, as opposed to just a source of horror, but I haven’t actually watched this one yet.

    District 9 (2009) and Akira (1988) have situations that cause massive biological change, but not centered on Biopunk in my opinion.

    The Blade Runner films, despite being the posterboys of Cyberpunk film, have a lot of potential considering that at the end of the day Replicants are biological. Splice (2009) at least focuses on the actual development of new biological technology, but winds up being more of a Frankenstein tale than anything.

    The Alien universe has hints of this with the Space Jockeys, xenomorphs, and androids. But it’s not ubiquitous.




  • Hallucinations while half-asleep are a well known phenomenon, so it’s very possible.

    If you’re trying to know for certain, that’s harder. You’ll have to consider a lot of things. Not all of them are likely, so how much digging you do is dependent on how concerned you are.

    Do you live alone? I assume you do, or already asked the people you live with.

    Are all your exterior doors and windows locked? Is anything missing or out of place? I think you’d have already noticed if you’d been robbed, but this is easy stuff to rule out.

    Do you have functioning Carbon Monoxide detectors? Do you have sleep apnaea? CO can lead to memory loss, sleep apnaea can contribute to sleep paralysis.

    Have you seen your door open while half asleep before? If this is recurring, you can do things like place hairs in the door that will fall if it opens.

    Have you done a sleep study? This can help determine if your REM cycle is frequently disrupted and if you need something like a CPAP.






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    Subtitles are great for this, but also investing in actual speakers instead of a soundbar or the tv’s speakers.

    If the movie has multiple sound channels beyond left/right, then dialogue is usually one of those channels and can come from a specific speaker, making it less muddied than when mixed with other sounds.

    If the movie doesn’t have multiple channels, the speakers might still help a little just by being better quality.