MOVIE 1: I originally saw it on TV around 1980. Begins on a battlefield, a young man is struggling to maintain consciousness, but fails. When he comes to, he has developed the ability to “dream effectively,” meaning that whatever he dreams has actually occurred when he awakes, sometimes with disastrous results. For example, it is suggested that he dream about solving overcrowding, and when he awakes, a significant potrtion of the earth’s population has died over the preceding several years due to some disease. On another occasion he tries to dream about the miserable rainy weather in the Pacific northwest, and upon waking the area is in the midst of a many-year-long drought. A scientist tries to manipulate this ability, and eventually gain the ability himself, but in the process he learns that when the guy at the beginning was losing consciousness, he actually died. However, just before he died he started dreaming, and the dream continued after he died. The scientist was just a character in his dream, and this realization drove him mad.
MOVIE 2: This one I saw in a quasi art/foreign film theater around 1982. All I remember is that it featured these aliens who had a power that when the brought somneone to orgasm, that person would die/vanish or something. It was not a porn flick. I also believe it had some punk/new wave themes. Don’t remember anything else.
Any ideas?