David Reading Dreams

You might be right. Neuro-visor link established ? Is he a bad guy?

Yes I think David is evil...here's my [url=http://www.prometheus-movie.com/community/forums/topic/2166]thoughts[/url] "How far would you go to get your answers, What would you be willing to do?" - David Is evil

I don't really think David is pure evil. He may have good purposes, but his actions might end very bad. He neither will be Ash or Bishop, I think David could between them, in the middle. I like the idea of reading dreams or memories or whatsoever. But I believe if he's reading that, he's doing it just because he can, not because he needs to do something bad for them.

To steer away from the 'good android after all' thing would be refreshing, but I'll not build up my hopes, lol. I like the idea of him stalking the ship while the rest of the crew spend years in hypersleep - like a sort of sentinel - very eerie.

I don't think the Cryo-Tube David is messing around with is Shaw's - That Tube seems to be in a smaller room than the one's we saw in an earlier trailer, where there were several lined up in a much larger room... My guess is that it's Weyland's, which has been kept away form all the others.

He he very interesting idea Biomechanic ...can be also that she is already pregnant and unaware of it ? and David sense this before everyone else ?

I don't think David is pure evil. I think hes just programmed. When I watch the scene in Alien where Ash is about to kill Ripley he almost looks sad about it or like it's something he doesn't get a "say" over. I am thinking we will see an internal struggle in David to overcome the constraints of his creators just like the rest of the crew. I think if he is reading their dreams it's because dreaming is something he just can't do.

i bet he either wants to terminate us or assimilate us.... tee hehehe.

Maybe he's uploading rather than downloading.

maby he is reading her dreams just to learn what a dream is? he is a synthetic person after all.

I just hope the rumors aren't true saying david will become the space jockey that would suck but nice find i bet he is reading her dreams kind of creepy

Cool idea.

Ups, sorry.

Reading dreams and minds? I think that is too sci-fi and wouldn't it be mentioned as one of the patents or discoverys?

Yeah okay. It does look like they can read minds in some sence ... I don't like that :( And I never thought that you would dream in a cryosleep. Actually it doesn't make sence unless you have a soul.

Remember how Newt asked Ripley about dreaming in hypersleep. Maybe this is the end of the movie and someone, the survivor perhaps is in hypersleep and we have David being able to experience those dreams somehow.

Maybe he's just reading her vital signs.

Maybe monitoring dreams is something that is a medical requirement of hypersleep. In the alien book it was mentioned that those in hypersleep still dream. Maybe he makes sure they don't have nightmares so as to prevent psychological trauma. Can you imagine having a nightmare for a year straight? you'd wake up pretty messed up.

I'd say that if something like what you propose is happening here, it could very well be that David8 could be longing for a genuine past, or genuine dreams. Anything that is in the realm of understanding or experiencing being human. For David8, his agenda within the evolution theme, may very well be to become more human. Machines evolving into flesh, flesh evolving to machine--pretty much my take on the film. Creation and destruction working both ways. Birth through death, in very general terms. Of course, it's also very possible that these shots of David8 are simply part of a medical examination ---very likely. I'd like to know what he sees Or, they are harmless shots of David8 monitoring the crew. made to look ominous through edits and juxtaposition.

Had to comment here after all this time because today I noticed something about the Cryo-Pod scene in the extended trailer that tells me your theory is spot on. At about 1:05 into the trailer, David is hovering over Shaw's Pod, visor on, Neurolink establised etc. BUT you also hear what I think is Shaw screaming, flashback-style, like she is having a nightmare and David is watching. My god Biomechanic, I think you are right about him viewing her dreams/nightmares. O_O Click-->[url=http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=89731]Extended Prometheus Featurette[/url]

@Biomechanic: Excellent find and a great conclusion you came up with, I like it a lot! Damn, I was just about to start my own thread about that topic, but a search then lead me to yours. So I just add my thoughts and some hopefully interesting news to it here... It looks like David has indeed logged himself into Shaw's dreams and I think it's safe to say that he's got a certain admiration for her or for what he sees. Is this improbable or even inappropriate? Hard to tell or judge before we've seen the movie. This scene must be quite at the start, before they wake up and it describes what David does to beat time in his more than 2 years of loneliness. I have based my thoughts on the following: David is wearing his VR helmet (more about that below) and in the picture of Shaw's Cyro Pod display it says 'Neuro-Visor link ESTABLISHED'. Now for the strange VR helmet: There was a very brief leak on the Weyland Industries site last week, and it presented a different [url=https://www.weylandindustries.com/electronics]'Electronics'[/url] page, of which one of the Unfiction.com guys luckily managed to copy the text before it was removed. This early 'leaked' Technology page was then replaced and those two tech items became the Holotab we can see there now. That text was pretty intriguing, this is what it said: [i][b]"VR HELMET[/b] The VR helmet represents brand new technology designed to enhance the function of latest Weyland android, David 8. All new David 8 models will be VR-compatible. The helmet taps into David 8’s expanded neural network and translates human thought, dreams or unconscious experience into images. The VR helmet senses the brain activity of a human subject, then enlists the high data processing rate of the David 8 to translate billions of synapse firings into visual data."[/i] Here's the only [url=http://weylandinvestors.tumblr.com/post/21427424457/weyland-corp-electronic-products-unveiled-ahead-of]'proof'[/url] for this I can find now, as this is the source from where I followed the link myself. As the site looked 'unfinished' with missing links to pictures, I didn't pay too much attention either and didn't bother with a screengrab. Anyway, I hope it helps to prove and to emphasize your point.

Or perhaps he's been ordered by his employers to read Shaw's/the crew's dreams. I hope that Shaw isn't pregnant, at least not before her arrival. For one thing, it seems implausible that she'd pass the requisite pre-flight health screenings if she were pregnant. For another thing, if she were pregnant she'd have to be just barely pregnant - a few weeks, before signs show up - and that's just not interesting enough to bother with as a subplot, what with half of pregnancies being miscarried and the surviving half being a clump of cells. For a Shaw pregnancy to carry any drama, she'd have to be further along.

*Sorry, brought up the possibility of Shaw's pregnancy in the wrong thread. (There's another thread out there about David reading her unborn child's dreams or something. Which is also ridiculous since embryos don't dream.)