Sci-Fi.....

[bjarmson]

You may be right about the "The Lathe of Heaven." I've only seen it on video and I thought I remember it being a SciFi Channel production, but I'm not sure.
Don't ask me the particulars, but it seemed if you were close to the protagonist, you had some "feeling" about being carried along from one reality to the next. His chess playing friend seems to indicate this sometime during the movie. Of course, it's just the Descartean "I think, therefore I am" theory redone as speculative fiction.