Game Chef 2017

I have been bombarded with work for the past two weeks, so I couldn't partake in Game Chef. All the same, the theme and ingredients have inspired me to work on a game about psychics who can walk in other people's dreams (the border between not only reality and unreality, but the border between me and you).

I'm taking inspiration from surrealist games like Itras By and Over the Edge for play in the dream world.

Inspired by "echoes," I want the line between dream and reality to blur as the visitor takes symbols and emotions from the visited's mind and has their echoes present in the visitor's waking world. Similarly, the visitor will leave echoes of her own mind in the dreams of the visited.

I'm imagining part of the game taking place in the dreams and the other part taking place in the real world.

Right now I'm looking for media inspiration to help get a good grasp on what elements within play should involve. At the top of my list are 1984's Dreamscape and 2010's Inception. I'm also going to rewatch the original Flatliners since there is a crossing over of the other world into our "reality."

Do you have other media to recommend?

Thanks y'all!