The player has only a limited period available before Nights falls to the ground and turns back into Claris or Elliot, and each collision with an enemy subtracts five seconds from the time remaining.

Nights has appeared in several " greatest games " lists.

A high definition version of Nights into Dreams has been announced for Xbox Live Arcade, PlayStation Network and Steam, and will be released for PlayStation Network on October 2, 2012, and for Xbox Live Arcade on October 5, 2012.

It has also been announced that both Nights and Reala will be playable characters in Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed.

As a means of understanding the world through speculation and storytelling, science fiction has antecedents back to mythology, though precursors to science fiction as literature can be seen in Lucian's True History in the 2nd century, some of the Arabian Nights tales, The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter in the 10th century and Ibn al-Nafis ' Theologus Autodidactus in the 13th century.

The Book of One Thousand and One Nights has a story, ' The Tale of Buluqiya ', in which the hero searches for immortality and finds a paradise with jewel-encrusted trees.

Since 1986, Doe has also maintained a busy second career as an actor, appearing in such films as Oliver Stone's Salvador, Allison Anders ' Border Radio and Sugar Town, the Jerry Lee Lewis biopic Great Balls of Fire, Miguel Arteta's The Good Girl, Craig Mazin's The Specials, Paul Thomas Anderson's Boogie Nights, and the independent feature Roadside Prophets, in which he starred with Beastie Boy Adam Horovitz.

Several different variants of the " Cinderella " story, which has its origins in the Egyptian story of Rhodopis, appear in the One Thousand and One Nights, including " The Second Shaykh's Story ", " The Eldest Lady's Tale " and " Abdallah ibn Fadil and His Brothers ", all dealing with the theme of a younger sibling harassed by two jealous elders.

According to Robert Irwin, Galland " played so large a part in discovering the tales, in popularizing them in Europe and in shaping what would come to be regarded as the canonical collection that, at some risk of hyperbole and paradox, he has been called the real author of the Nights.

D ' Aulnoy's book has a remarkably similar structure to the Nights, with the tales told by a female narrator.

The Nights has inspired many pieces of music:

What they do show is that the fairy tale has ancient roots, older than the Arabian Nights collection of magical tales ( compiled circa 1500 AD ), such as Vikram and the Vampire, and Bel and the Dragon.

Channel 4 has had recent successes with Spaced, Phoenix Nights, Black Books, Green Wing, Peep Show and The Inbetweeners.

In the framing story, Lazarus has decided that life is no longer worth living, but ( in what is described as a reverse Arabian Nights scenario ) will consent not to end his life as long as his companions will listen to his stories.

Gaiman himself has summarized the plot of the series ( in the foreword to Endless Nights ) as " The Lord of Dreams learns that one must change or die, and makes his decision.

" Gaiman has also said that his dissatisfaction with how his characters were being treated had dissuaded him from writing any more stories involving the Endless, although he has since written Endless Nights.

In Delirium's story in Endless Nights, " Going Inside ", she has retreated into her realm so deeply that no one can retrieve her, save five insane human individuals gathered together by Daniel, Matthew and Barnabas, as only those who are already deeply insane can enter her realm unscathed.

She has produced fill-in issues of Books of Magic, The Dreaming and Swamp Thing and contributed artwork to the anthology comics Fables # 59 ( in addition to a story in the hardcover OGN 1001 Nights of Snowfall ) and Transmetropolitan: Filth of the City.

However, no medieval Arabic source has been traced for Aladdin, which was incorporated into The Book of One Thousand and One Nights by its French translator, Antoine Galland, who heard it from an Arab Syrian Christian storyteller from Aleppo.

The recording of Manuel de Falla's " Nights in the Gardens of Spain " with pianist Arthur Rubinstein has remained available.

Despite the interest and realism of the system, which makes a case demonic invocations no Mage can not afford to treat lightly, this part of the system has not been well integrated with the rules of magic and is confined to the end of the rules, and also the mixture of styles, the Judeo-Christian demonology adjacent to the Thousand and One Nights, all sprinkled with a touch of mythology came from the writings of Tolkien.

No Arabic source has been traced for the tale, which was incorporated into the book One Thousand and One Nights by its French translator, Antoine Galland, who heard it from an Syrian Arab storyteller from Aleppo.

She has been part of two ensemble casts that have earned Screen Actors Guild Awards nominations for Outstanding Performance by a Cast ( Boogie Nights and Bobby ).

Ferrell first established himself in the mid 1990s as a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live, and has subsequently starred in the comedy films Old School, Elf, Anchorman, Talladega Nights, Stranger than Fiction, Blades of Glory, Semi-Pro, and The Other Guys.

In another 1001 Nights tale, " Abdullah the Fisherman and Abdullah the Merman ", the protagonist Abdullah the Fisherman gains the ability to breathe underwater and discovers an underwater society that is portrayed as an inverted reflection of society on land, in that the underwater society follows a form of primitive communism where concepts like money and clothing do not exist.

In another Nights tale, " Abdullah the Fisherman and Abdullah the Merman ", the protagonist Abdullah the Fisherman gains the ability to breathe underwater and discovers an underwater society that is portrayed as an inverted reflection of society on land.

In another Arabian Nights tale, the protagonist Abdullah the Fisherman gains the ability to breathe underwater and discovers an underwater submarine society that is portrayed as an inverted reflection of society on land, in that the underwater society follows a form of primitive communism where concepts like money and clothing do not exist.

Yes, its decision to focus on the pornography business in the San Fernando Valley in the 1970s and 1980s is nerviness itself, but more impressive is the film's sureness of touch, its ability to be empathetic, nonjudgmental and gently satirical, to understand what is going on beneath the surface of this raunchy Nashville-esque universe and to deftly relate it to our own ... Perhaps the most exciting thing about Boogie Nights is the ease with which writer-director Anderson ... spins out this complex web.

In another Arabian Nights tale, the protagonist Abdullah the Fisherman gains the ability to breathe underwater and discovers an underwater submarine society that is portrayed as an inverted reflection of society on land, in that the underwater society follows a form of primitive communism where concepts like money and clothing do not exist.

In another Arabian Nights tale, the protagonist Abdullah the Fisherman gains the ability to breathe underwater and discovers an underwater submarine society that is portrayed as an inverted reflection of society on land, in that the underwater society follows a form of primitive communism where concepts like money and clothing do not exist.

Nights ' flying ability is related to swimming the breast-stroke.

After the meal, Nancy recruited pianist Van Cliburn to sing a rendition of " Moscow Nights " for the Soviet delegation, to which Mikhail and Raisa broke out into song.

Nights into Dreams ... ( trademarked NiGHTS into DREAMS ...), is a video game released by Sega in 1996 for the Sega Saturn video game system.

That night, a nightmare replays the events, and Elliot runs blindly into the world of Nightopia, where he discovers the imprisoned Nights.

During the boss battle, he brings Nights, Elliot and Claris into different locations.

Nights into Dreams ... is split into seven levels or " Dreams ", each divided further into four " Mares " and a boss battle.

It is possible to complete some of the levels ' goals by wandering around the landscape of Nightopia as Claris or Elliot ( pursued by an egg-shaped alarm clock which will wake up the child and end the level if it catches the player ), but the majority of the gameplay centers on Nights ' flying sequences, triggered by walking into the Ideya palace near the start of each level and merging with the imprisoned acrobat.

The optional 3D controller that came packaged with Nights into Dreams .... ( US / EU version shown ; the Japanese pad was white.

Nights into Dreams was introduced alongside an optional game controller, included with most copies of the game, called the Saturn 3D controller.

At the time of its release, Nights into Dreams was the top-selling game for the Saturn, and was the 21st highest selling game in Japan for the year 1996.

A minigame version of Nights into Dreams ... is playable utilizing the Nintendo GameCube-to-Game Boy Advance connectivity with Phantasy Star Online Episode I & II and Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg.

Following a successful fan campaign by nightsintodreams. com, Nights was integrated into Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing as the flagman, and Nights and Reala appear as playable characters in Sega Superstars Tennis.

Archie Comics adapted Nights into Dreams ... into a three-issue comic book miniseries to test whether or not a Nights comic would sell well in North America.

* Official Nights into Dreams website

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