Dune All Of Pauls Dreams & Visions Explained (Future Teases & Real Meaning)

Dune: All Of Paul’s Dreams & Visions Explained (Future Teases & Real Meaning)

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Dune’s main character Paul Atreides has several strange dreams and visions about the planet Arrakis. What are these dreams and what do they mean?

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Dune’s protagonist Paul Atreides has several strange dreams and visions throughout the ambitious space odyssey—what do they mean and how do they foreshadow future events? Denis Villeneuve’s Dune, which is based on the cult sci-fi novel of the same name by author Frank Herbert, is a space opera of epic proportions, combining themes of socioecology, espionage, philosophy, and transhumanism. At the center of this sprawling universe is Paul Atreides (Timothee Chalamet), the son of Duke Leto of House Atreides (Oscar Isaac) and the Lady Jessica of the Bene Gesserit (Rebecca Ferguson).

Paul isn’t just a member of a royal family. As the ice cold Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam (Charlotte Rampling) explains, Paul is an anomaly in the centuries-long Bene Gesserit breeding program, which aims to bring about the Kwisatz Haderach—also known as “the one.” Defying Bene Gesserit politically-motivated orders to bear the Duke only daughters, Lady Jessica instead gave birth to a son, training him in the Bene Gesserit Way.

This is why Paul has vivid dreams and visions about people and events on the inhospitable desert planet of Arrakis. His dreams are actually prescient glimpses of events to come, a manifestation of the engineered breeding of bloodlines with a predilection for prescience. And since Paul is an anomaly in this program, split between his emerging powers and his familial duty as the heir to House Atreides, he can scarcely make sense of his dreams and visions.

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Visions Of Chani In Arrakis

Dune All Of Pauls Dreams & Visions Explained (Future Teases & Real Meaning)

Paul’s first dreams are simple visions of an unknown woman standing under the bright sunlight of the desert. Dune later reveals that this woman is Chani (Zendaya), one of the native Fremen from Stilgar’s (Javier Bardem) sietch, or village. The dreams occur as the Atreides are getting ready to move to Arrakis, in order to take over the planet and oversee its massively lucrative spice production at the order of the Emperor. During this time, Paul reads books and watches hologram films about Arrakis and his harsh conditions. Chani’s presence in Paul’s dreams suggest that he will find her somewhere on the desert planet. Moreover, Chani is the only main character in Dune who is introduced in one of Paul’s visions.

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The Fremen And The Death of Atreides Warrior Duncan Idaho

Dune All Of Pauls Dreams & Visions Explained (Future Teases & Real Meaning)

Prior to the Atreides leaving their home planet of Caladan, swordmaster Duncan Idaho (Jason Momoa) joins the advance team to secure Arrakis and prepare it for the arrival of the Duke and his family. Paul explains to Duncan that he’s been having dreams about Arrakis and Duncan living among the Fremen. More importantly, in Paul’s dreams Duncan falls in battle, and he feels that if he can join his his friend on the advance team, he can somehow prevent this from happening. Despite his insistence, Duncan refuses to let the young Lord accompany him, and reassures him that things will be fine. However, Paul’s dreams are a foreshadowing of Duncan’s eventual demise on Arrakis at the hands of Imperial Sardaukar soldiers, sacrificing himself for Paul and Lady Jessica in a moment that’s loyal to the Dune book.

Fire, Death & A Bloody Crysknife

Dune All Of Pauls Dreams & Visions Explained (Future Teases & Real Meaning)

Because Paul was trained by Lady Jessica in the Bene Gesserit Way, the Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam visits Paul to give him the most crucial test of his life. Mohiam asks Paul about his dreams during the test, and the pain involved prompts him to vividly recall his dreams and have more visions. This time, they involve burning palm trees, a burning corpse, and a hand holding a bloody crysknife, the sacred Fremen weapon made from the tooth of a dead sandworm. The burning palm trees in Paul’s vision are the same ones that the Harkonnens burn when they retake the planet from the Atreides. Meanwhile, the bloody crysknife foreshadows how Paul’s destiny is intertwined with this sacred weapon.

Kissing Chani, Paul’s Death & Jessica’s Baby

Dune All Of Pauls Dreams & Visions Explained (Future Teases & Real Meaning)

As imperial planetologist Liet Kynes (Sharon Duncan-Brewster) shows Duke Leto and his men how a harvester in the deep desert works, Paul is exposed to Dune’s all-important spice melange for the first time. Paul is stunned and barely escapes the sandworm that devours the harvester. Later, Paul tells Jessica that the spice induced a vision that seems to be about his death. In the vision, Paul shares a tender moment with Chani, who then seems to stab him with a crysknife, but it’s also unclear whose hand actually holds the knife. What’s clear is that Paul’s vision also includes his mother holding a baby, which allows him to correctly deduce that Lady Jessica is actually pregnant.

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Paul & Chani’s Role In The Galactic Religious Genocide

Dune All Of Pauls Dreams & Visions Explained (Future Teases & Real Meaning)

“Fanatical legions worshipping at the shrine of my father’s skull, a war in my name!” Inside a Fremen stilltent in the desert, Paul gets even more exposed to the spice. This leads to visions of the galactic war that will be launched in Paul’s name after he becomes the emperor, an event that only begins in the second half of the book, potentially foreshadowing key events in the story of Dune part 2. While Chani wears a Fremen stillsuit in all of Paul’s prior dreams and visions, in this one, she wears a white dress, along with fresh blood on her hands. Meanwhile, Paul wears battle armor and leads his men into battle, and even oversees an act of genocide with Chani on some planet. The vision severely distresses Paul, but he is slowly calmed by Lady Jessica.

Maker Hooks & The Rhythms Of The Deep Desert

As Paul struggles to navigate an ornithopter in the middle of a sand storm, he gets a vision of a Fremen tribesman, who says “The mystery of life isn’t a problem to solve, but a reality to experience – a process that cannot be understood by stopping it. We must move with the flow of the process.” The Fremen then stands up and deploys a pair of large hooks, which in the books are used by the Fremen to ride the gargantuan sandworms in Dune. This allows Paul to figure out that the best way to navigate the storm is to shut down the engines and submit to the strong winds, a strategy that eventually saves Paul and Jessica’s lives. The Fremen is later revealed to be Jamis (Babs Olusanmokun), whom Paul kills in a duel using Chani’s crysknife—the same knife that appears in his prior visions.

This infers that Paul’s vision of Jamis happened in the past, as prescience in the Dune universe also sometimes involves ancestral memories. It also suggests that Paul will be learning how to ride a sandworm some time in the Dune sequels. His dreams in Denis Villeneuve’s Dune provide a glimpse into the larger literary universe on which the movie is based. More importantly, they also provide very vivid clues about how the as-of-yet unannounced Dune Part 2 could play out. Moreover, the surreal nature and cinematography of Paul’s dreams and visions are reminiscent of the cinematic style of Chilean director Alejandro Jodorowsky, the name behind the failed mid-1970s adaptation of the book that was ultimately never made. The way these scenes are shot could be Villeneuve’s way of paying tribute to Jodorowsky’s prior vision for a film adaptation of Dune.

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