Yep, reliving my childhood again.
When I watched it this time, my focus was drawn to two points: Atreyu unable to escape from Fantasia riding the Luck Dragon through The Nothing over the Sea of Possibility ... metaphorical, much?... and Atreyu's confrontation of G`mork.
G`mork ... I was always afraid of him as a kid, but now he seems like a friend of mine. "I am a servant of the master of The Nothing. I aid The Nothing in Destroying Hope ... [Why?] Because people without hope are easy to control." Yes!
But it all came together for me with What Dreams May Come. I won't say much more except something strange, like "before- and after adulthood."
Before I started watching What Dreams May Come, I saw Anne Hathaway, 24, in Ok! First Celebrity News; and she reminded me of The Childlike Empress ... maybe she did play the Empress, though probably not---but I'm not putting it past her.