A message from the filmmaker: Lucid Nation was a project that came to fruition in a similar fashion to the plot of our story. We found ourselves fascinated by the experiment, so visually interesting and bizarre, to cut ping pong balls in half and use scotch tape to crudely tape them to your own face just to stare at colored light and listen to television static. Such a wacky combination, and it made for an interesting film topic. When we couldn't crack the story, my producing partner mailed me red light bulbs and ping pong balls and insisted I tried it. Through these failed trials is how we came to the story told in Lucid Nation. Kids are imaginative enough to want to experience this but naive enough to actually try. Then, like any other addictive substance, it's a short and fast trip down the rabbit hole.
