Why Jacobs’s Ladder resonates

(Spoilers ahead)

Sure, the film turns out to be a death dream but the reason it’s a classic is because it taps deep into a common human experience - denial.

When you know something’s true but aren’t ready to accept it and keep clinging to what you remember as your previous, happy life. The delusion succeeds periodically but then reality punches you in the gut with another ‘dream on!’

Most inner pain comes from a separation between what is… and what you want things to be. When you align the two you’ve found the secret to happiness.

A huge amount of human suffering, both inner and subsequently outer, is caused by a poor relationship to the truth. Jacob’s Ladder goes some way to healing that rift.