Waking Life (2001) Edit

A friend once told me the worst mistake you can make...

A guy on a computer figures something out and simultaneously...

A long, hard day of work, finally you go home, get in bed, close your eyes.

A lot of us are mapping the mind body relationship of dreams.

A mind that yet is to be.

A novel.

A place to momentarily house all the abstractions.

A systematic questioning of happiness.

A thousand years is an instant. There's nothing new.

A well armed populace is the best defense against tyranny.

About feeling like you observe your life...

About reincarnation, and where all the new souls come from over time.

Actually, the gap between, say, Plato or Nietzsche and the average human...

Actually, there's only one instant, right now. And it's eternity.

Affirmation of freedom so reckless it amounts to a denial of limitation.

Ahoy there, matey! You in for the long haul?

All action basically for survival.

All ashore that's going ashore!

All communication to keep the ant colony buzzing along...

All of life is, No, thank you. No, thank you.

All of you pukes are gonna die the day I get out of this shithole!

All right. Don't miss the boat.

Analog results from molecular biology and cloning.

Anchors aweigh!

And a guy with his T shirt off.

And a second of dream consciousness is infinitely longer than a waking one.

And Bazin is, like, a Christian, so he believes...

And each one, each object, each place...

And he's packing this Econoline van...

And I float down, and as my feet touch the ground...

And I had been a part of that. It was a gift.

And I see there's an Econoline van down there.

And I think, That's not just the smell of vomit.

And it'll determine the course of the rest of your life.

And on romantic evenings of self...

And so much of our experience is intangible.

And so the main character is to this new mind...

And so, the person you appear to be in the dream...

And that old drunken fart of a judge. What a pompous ass!

And that story is singular. But, in fact, it's story after story.

And the manifestations of this neo human evolution...

And the priest says, That's the Book of Acts.

And things are just starting.

And this is my window to the world. Every minute's a different show.

And vomit dribbles down her chin. It smells really bad.

And way down, at the very end of the gas station, they had tire racks...

And we're all saying, 'No, thank you. Not just yet.'

And when we enter into that mode...

And yet, you know, when we communicate with one another...

And, as one realizes...

And, yes, those are dream feet inside your dream shoes.

Another tip off is trying to adjust light levels. You can't.

Are you in the story?

Are you saying reincarnation doesn't exist? Or we're all young souls?

Are you sure?

Art was not the goal, but the occasion and method for locating our rhythm...

As he pulls up he thinks, This is in my book too.

As I almost go through the roof, I'm like, Okay, I believe you.

As intelligence piles on intelligence, ability on ability...

As it proceeds, the input is this new intelligence.

As the pattern gets more intricate, being swept along isn't enough.

As we go through the new evolution...

At the station? You were on the pay phone and you looked at me...

Because if I were to look at you and let you be holy, I would stop talking.

Because if you can do that, you can do anything.

Because remembering is so much more a psychotic activity than forgetting.

Because someday, you won't be able to.

Becoming lucid, you mean knowing you're dreaming?

Before you drift off, don't forget...

Behind the huge difference, there is but one story...

Beware and...

Biological, anthropological, development of cultures...

Bits of rapture. Fleeting emotions.

Build artifacts, solve problems, explore the secrets of the universe.

Built like a brick shithouse. Pulls out a knife, 12 inches long...

But didn't I mention? The ongoing wow is happening right now.

But how did you finally get out of the dream?

But I always have this awful, nagging feeling...

But I think we are in a very significant moment in history.

But I want it to sound rich and almost a little wavy...

But I was, like, He's not really a psychic.

But I'm beginning to think...

But I'm still in it now. I can't get out of it.

But if that's what you're thinking, you should, if you can.

But if you look at details it won't really help...

But in film, you film a specific guy...

But instead of avoiding him, he said, Can I help you?

But it hasn't happened, thank goodness.

But that's beside the point, whether I can dredge up information about...

But the media's function is not to eliminate the evils of the world.

But the question remains. If you think about individuality, who you are...

But then I'm kind of reading it and then writing it.

But what else are you gonna do?

But when it gets really interesting, I think...

But...

Can't we say that about life?

Challenge the corporate slave state!

Cinema, in its essence...

Color outside the lines and off the page! Don't box me in!

Comfort will never be comfortable.

Could we do that again? I know we haven't met...

Creation comes out of imperfection.

Creativity and the dynamic human spirit that refuses to submit!

Cut out the fear and anxiety and just rock 'n' roll.

Cut the vocal cords of every empowered speaker and devalue currency.

Cut your eyelids off.

D.H. Lawrence had this idea of two people meeting...

Death and taxes. Don't talk about politics or religion.

Decisions can seem like charades.

Demonstrate what life is and what it could be.

Depression, strife, riots, murder. All this dread.

Digital and analog. Digital is artificial intelligence.

Do you want the puppet on the right or the puppet on the left?

Doesn't it make sense that death would be wrapped in a dream?

Don't worry about coloring within the lines.

Doubt became our narrative.

Doubt is an exam for our vitality.

Dream is destiny.

Dreaming with our hands and minds.

Drink and the devil...

Driven on by the fact that no matter how empty the world seemed...

Either I'm moving fast, or time is. Never both simultaneously.

Even the characters' names are the same as in the Bible.

Ever since then, I always carry this.

Everybody always...

Everyone gets to the yes in the end, right?

Everything she's saying is right out of his book.

Evolution of the organism begins with evolution through the hominid...

Exactly.

Exactly. So in that six to 12 minutes of brain activity...

Examine the nature of everything you observe.

Exercise your mind fully, knowing it is only an exercise.

Existentialism is often discussed as a philosophy of despair...

Eyesight is a test to see if we can see beyond it.

False awakenings, I used to have those a lot.

Fear...

Feel joy, sorrow, laughter, empathy. Tuck the memory in your travel bag.

For every second I spend in this hellhole...

For it to be over 150 years old, it's only one out of six.

Giacometti was once run down by a car.

Go with the flow. The sea refuses no river.

Haaaa!

Have you got a match?

He comes up and I say, What's the word?

He gets home and thinks:

He had the same name as the chief in his book.

He hands him some money, which he never would've done.

He lays down a burrito, looks at me and says:

He met a woman with the same name as the woman in the book.

He must have been on drugs, on speed or something, because he stood up.

He recalled falling into a lucid faint...

He said when a member of a species is born...

He still had the knife, and blood was just all over his chest.

He stood up and went like that, just moved a little. I'm in shock.

He thinks to himself, I must be insane.

He was really into Gnosticism and the idea that this demon...

He was really into Gnosticism and the idea that this demon...

He went right up between the two pumps, ethyl and regular.

He'd seen what was going on in the Book of Acts.

He's an outsider to the community.

He's got the last two tires in his hands.

He's like, I've never read it.

He's telling his priest how he wrote this book...

Hell, the Greeks 3000 years ago were just as advanced as we are.

Here's your change. Paper or plastic? Credit or debit?

Hey, how's it going?

Hey, it's me. I just got back into town.

Hey, man, I guess you already took off or something.

Hey.

Hit a switch now and then.

Hollywood has taken film and made it a storytelling medium. You take...

Holy, holy, holy moment by moment. But who can live that way?

How we lived created a new situation of exuberance and friendship.

Humankind is too good! We're not underachievers!

Hurry up! Come on, get in the car. Let's go.

I believe that this flawed perfection is sufficient and complete...

I blew him out of the gas station.

I can explore new dimensions of reality.

I can learn to love, and make love, to the paradoxes that bug me.

I can't really remember right now. I can't really recall.

I do not await the future...

I don't agree entirely. Which is to say, I don't exactly disagree.

I don't know if you're able to answer that question.

I don't know what this is.

I don't know, but it's somewhere.

I don't know. I'm not very good at that anymore.

I don't think so.

I don't want a straw, I want real human moments.

I don't want to give that up. I don't want to be an ant, you know?

I feel a little apprehensive.

I fired a round and it hit him, boom, right in the chest.

I get out, ended up getting hit by a car.

I guess I'll hang out with you later or something.

I haven't seen too many around lately.

I heard that Tim Leary said as he was dying...

I just woke from a dream.

I keep thinking about something you said.

I keep thinking I'm waking up, but I'm still in a dream.

I know what you mean. I remember thinking:

I like that. Like there's...

I loved all the people, dealing with all the contradictory impulses.

I may not understand it or agree with it...

I mean, it came from our desire to transcend our isolation...

I mean, it's impossible.

I mean, maybe I only exist in your mind.

I never looked at the world the same way again.

I pull it out...

I rapturously breathe in the odors of life.

I realize I'm in the land of the dead. Everyone around me was dead.

I refuse to take existentialism as just another fashion...

I remember that, but I don't remember that being you.

I said, If you microwave that, poke holes in the plastic...

I think this is the same watch too.

I thought I'd bum a ride, but that's cool.

I understand what you're saying. It's up to me, I'm the dreamer.

I walked in...

I wanna wake up for real. How do you really wake up?

I want freedom! And that's what you should want!

I want it to last a long, long time.

I want to see you. I want you to see me.

I want you cocksuckers to suffer.

I want you to know it's me. I'm the one doing it to you. Me!

I was asleep and I heard a noise.

I was in and out of the holy moment, looking at you.

I was sitting down...

I was waiting for a cab, but...

I woke up wondering...

I would say that life understood is life lived.

I'd rather be a gear in a deterministic, physical machine...

I'll drink to that.

I'll fix your asses. Maybe a long needle in your eardrum.

I'll get you fuckers if it's the last thing I do.

I'll just listen to you fucks screaming.

I'm afraid we're losing the real virtues of living life passionately...

I'm closer to the end of my life than I've ever been...

I'm concerned with structure, the systems of control.

I'm concerned with what's happening in this world.

I'm doing a soap opera, you might be interested.

I'm getting creeped out, like I'm talking to dead people.

I'm just trying to get a sense of where I am and what's going on.

I'm not in an objective, rational world.

I'm not saying you don't know what you're talking about...

I'm rubbing my eyes, trying to see what's going on.

I'm sick of it! And I'm not gonna take a bite out of it!

I'm so happy. He's been dead for years.

I'm starting to think I'm dead.

I'm still just as real as anything else.

I'm still:

I'm talking about being in a dream.

I'm trying to change that. I hope you are too...

I've always found myself in the second category.

I've been to oblivion. I ferment the desire to remember everything.

I've got the benefit in this reality, if you call it that...

I've never figured it out. Maybe you can.

I've read the postmodernists with interest.

I've returned from the valley of death.

If the lights are on and you can't turn them off, you're dreaming.

If the world is false and nothing is true, then everything is possible.

If there's fire, we'll carry gas.

If you see a light switch nearby, see if it works.

Imagine it as an instant fulfillment of human and neo human potential.

In hell, you sink. In heaven, you rise to your fullness of love.

In history, attempts have been made...

In our youth, we don't take into account our curiosity.

In short...

In the waking world, the neuro system inhibits the vividness of memories.

In today's world view, science has taken the place of God...

Interrupt everyday experience and the expectations that go with it.

It bursts into a chain of affirmations that knows no limit.

It could be the amplification of the individual...

It dissolves into quick moving particles that swirl.

It had to be easy when it was just simple survival.

It has a probabilistic framework.

It has to do with choices...

It just flowed out of him. He felt he was channeling it.

It makes a difference in material terms and to other people.

It makes evolutionary sense.

It opens itself to a vast objectivity.

It saves on introductions and goodbyes.

It seems to come out of a striving and a frustration.

It sets an example.

It should be based on the person or the thing.

It was a time to become conscious...

It was about that book, Flow My Tears, the Policeman said.

It was about the true discovery of communication. Or the quest for such.

It was in the desert, the middle of nowhere, on the way to Vegas.

It was the last gas stop before Vegas.

It was, like, one of those life altering experiences.

It wasn't typical, more like I was in an alternate universe.

It would be the same dream body as in your everyday dream life...

It'd be maladapted if a predator...

It'll be an age of humankind standing up for something pure and right.

It's always our decision who we are.

It's an instant in which God is posing a question, which is:

It's been going on forever. I keep waking up into another dream.

It's called Efferdent Plus.

It's complete unto itself.

It's in all of us. We revel in it.

It's like freeing the brave, reckless gods within us all.

It's like I'm being prepared for something.

It's like once the answers are out there, people can pick up on them.

It's like the dream.

It's like we're all telepathically sharing our experiences.

It's like you come onto this planet with a crayon box.

It's like your life is yours to create.

It's loose, not deterministic. It lets us understand free will.

It's more like a whole spectrum of awareness.

It's mostly just me dealing with a lot of people...

It's not a bad dream. It's a great dream.

It's not dead. It's just been forgotten.

It's not necessarily passive to not respond verbally.

It's not the kind of self or soul that theologians argue about.

It's ridiculous. It shouldn't be based on the script.

It's something concrete. It's us talking...

It's such a strange paradox.

It's totally unique.

It's up to each of us to turn loose the greed, hatred, envy...

It's weird, because it's not a fixed state.

It's weird.

Its manifestations are those of social adaption.

Its mastery, its capacity to represent.

Judge not, lest ye be judged!

Kierkegaard's last words were, Sweep me up.

Lady Gregory was Yeats' patron, this Irish person.

Later I found out I was still dreaming, dreaming that I'd woken up.

Lay down, G.I! Lay down, G.I!

Let me explain the nature of the universe.

Let me tell you about a dream I had.

Let's do it right now. Let's have a holy moment.

Life was raging all around me, and every moment was magical.

Like I'm looking back on my life.

Like if you tell a joke. A guy walks into a bar...

Like my waking life is her memories.

Like the same results popping up everywhere, independent of each other.

Like there are some holy moments and others are not.

Like, for Bazin, what the ontology of film has to do with...

Like, I wake up at 10:12. Then I go back to sleep...

Like, I've been flying around...

Like, this moment is holy. Film lets us see that, can frame it so we see it.

Live as if things depend on your actions.

Looking back, that's all that really mattered.

Lorca, in that same poem, said...

Louis. He's a recurring dream character.

Low strings. Begin!

Malle had just made his most expensive film, which cost $ 21/2 million.

Malle says, It's a dream within a dream.

Man wants chaos. In fact, he's gotta have it.

Matter is a test for our curiosity.

Maybe not.

Mm hm.

Mm hm. Yeah.

Most of the people I've encountered and the things I want to say...

Most of the time, I feel connected, engaged in this active process.

Most people never ask themselves that, awake or asleep.

Mostly people went off about whatever, really intensely.

My dog had been dead 10 years, Lady Gregory a lot longer.

My little friend, dream no more. It's really here.

My transport should be an extension of my personality. Voilà!

Never again return to your physical body.

Nevertheless, what you do makes a difference.

No greater values have developed.

No worse than us. He's all action, no theory.

No, I don't have a boat car. I don't know what you mean.

No, I don't think so.

Nobody teaches it, so no one knows it exists.

Not just bodies, but persons. There's the freedom problem...

Nothing fancy.

Now I remember. This happened to me before. This is why I left.

Now, what you're looking at here are three strings:

Nowadays, we know the world works by fundamental physical laws.

Okay, pickup to 20, please.

Okay.

On the way to finding what we love, we find what blocks us from our desire.

On this bridge, Lorca warns...

Once having said yes to the instant, the affirmation is contagious.

One assumes you can't understand life and live simultaneously.

One thing that comes from these guys...

One, two, three.

Or a hot cigar in your eye.

Or, better still, some of that old Apache shit.

Our behavior isn't an exception to these laws.

Our critique began as all critiques begin, with doubt.

Our planet is facing the greatest problems it's ever faced. Ever.

Part of your dream self.

People sleepwalk in the waking state and wakewalk through dreams.

Perhaps you're perceiving directly.

Philip K. Dick is right about time, but wrong that it's 50 A.D.

Pick a color.

Pick another number.

Pick one more number.

Pushes them into the thing. And I, of course, I go, Hey, you!

Radical attunement to individuality, uniqueness, to the mind.

Removed from our language.

Resistance is not futile! We will win this!

Right.

Right.

Sara, try that thing you asked me about.

Sartre once said he never really felt a day of despair in his life.

Savor input from all the senses.

Self destructive man feels completely alienated. Utterly alone.

She tells him what Felix is doing.

She's like, Excuse me.

She's see worthy. S E E. See with your eyes.

Shortly after that, he was mailing a letter...

Since these laws are trustworthy, they enable technological achievements.

So Dick had this theory that time was an illusion...

So do you want to do it?

So don't be bored.

So evolution now becomes an individually centered process...

So figure out something you've always wanted to do, or a life you want...

So film is a record of God, or the ever changing face of God.

So four years later, he was at this party.

So he goes back, finds the guy and takes him to a gas station.

So he reads the Book of Acts, and it's uncanny.

So how did you finally get out of it?

So I can't adjust lights!

So I held the trigger back and fanned the hammer, it was one of those old time:

So I'm petting him, and there's this gross stuff...

So it takes a story that's actually a fiction...

So it's about that guy, at that moment, in that space.

So Lady Gregory turns to me and says:

So many think because then happened, now isn't.

So much of the information...

So much of what we perceive cannot be expressed. It's unspeakable.

So once the episode's screened...

So that's what you do to test if you're dreaming?

So the narrative thing seems to me...

So the story is of the cosmos now.

So this whole episode is kind of creepy, right?

So time is just this constant saying no to God's invitation.

So we continue walking, and my dog runs over to me.

So what film is actually capturing is, like, God incarnate, creating...

So where do you want out?

So whether it's God setting things up in advance and knowing everything...

So you know, every once in a while a car would stop for gas.

So you produce a neo human...

So, what did you say to that?

Some molten lead up the ass?

Some was absurdist, like from a strange movie.

Someday, in my mid 30s maybe...

Someone's trying to make us forget that God is imminent.

Sometimes I feel kind of isolated.

St. Augustine and Thomas Aquinas worried how we can be free...

Stop. Go. Walk here. Drive there.

Stupid bastard.

Suicide carried off many.

Take a right. Go two more blocks. Drop him off on the next corner.

Take a right. Go two more blocks. Drop him off on the next corner.

Take free will.

Tell you what. Go up three more streets.

Thanks for kind ofjostling me there. I've been...

That feeling may be transient, but it's what we live for.

That now is threatened. It's challenged by this picture.

That really freaks him out, but what can he do?

That was a visitation to this place, the land of the dead.

That works. You imagine a guy and a dwarf in a bar, and it's imaginative.

That, after death, your conscious life would continue in a dream body?

That's a really cool idea!

That's my problem. I'm trapped.

That's one of the reasons I enjoy you. You can bring me into that.

That's only the beginning of the cycle.

That's what film has. It's that moment, which is holy.

That's what I loved the most, connecting with the people.

That's what I was wondering.

That's what time and history is.

That's what time is. It's no more 50 A.D. Than it's 2001.

That's what's great about being human.

That's where you come in.

The 21st century is a new century. Not the century of slavery...

The answer to that can be found in another question, and that's this:

The best films are the ones that aren't tied to that, slavishly.

The best part is you faggots will have your eyelids cut off...

The best scripts don't make the best films.

The Book of Acts takes place in 50 A.D.

The characters are the fantasy lives of the performers in it.

The dreamer's banished to obscurity.

The extreme uncertainties of subsisting without working...

The guy said, I ran out of gas.

The idea is to remain in a state of departure, while always arriving.

The jalapeños dry up.

The lucidity wavers. Right now I know I'm dreaming.

The main character is what I call the mind.

The media puts a sad face on things, painting them as human tragedies.

The message is, we should never write ourselves off...

The moment is not just a passing empty, nothing, yet...

The most advanced technologies and craftsmanship bring us at best...

The new evolution stems from two types of information:

The new paradigm would give us the traits...

The old evolution is cold, it's sterile. It's efficient.

The powers that be want us to be passive observers.

The quality of the environment...

The quest is to be liberated from the negative...

The question keeps coming and we have no solution.

The realm of the real spirit...

The reason he wrote this book was that he somehow...

The ride requires no explanation, just occupants.

The story goes like this: Billy Wilder runs into Louis Malle.

The time has come to project my inadequacies and dissatisfactions...

The truth is out there, but they lay out a buffet of lies!

The world is an exam...

The world population has doubled in the past 40 years.

Their scores went up dramatically. Like 20%.

Then I also want to show it live, with the actors present.

Then it's like we have met.

Then look at the time scale involved.

Then she tells me that this is the narrative of everyone's life.

Then suddenly I start floating, levitating up to the ceiling.

Then they secretly gave them a day old crossword. One already done by people.

Then ultimately it's, Yes, I give in.

Then when you get to agriculture, scientific and industrial revolution...

Then you can get down to business. And it's unlimited.

Then you wake up and realize the whole day at work had been a dream.

Then, for a hatband, sew it into the inside...

There are six billion people in the world.

There are two opposing states of consciousness...

There was a chair and a cash register. That was all the room there was.

There was this guy who was supposed to be psychic.

There'll be an intensity never known. To exchange love and hate...

There's just one instant, and that's what we're always in.

There's no story. It's just...

There's nothing here for me now.

There's the holy moment, then...

These laws govern the behavior of every object in the world.

These laws govern the behavior of every object in the world.

These multiplicities and distinctions send differences, giving...

These will be subject to de emphasis and de evolution.

These would be manifestations of this evolution. That's what we hope.

They did this study. They isolated a group over time...

They don't get much out of it.

They have a narrative you're a slave to.

They haven't given us any other options, outside the occasional...

They persuade us to accept those evils and get used to living with them.

They say dreaming's dead. No one does it anymore.

They say dreams are real only as long as they last.

They sort of swerve. Their behavior is absurd...

They themselves are inhibited during REM sleep.

They're just symbols. They're dead. You know?

They're like little wheels.

They're right to have the star system. Then it's about that person...

Things have been tough for dreamers.

This exact station. This exact guy. Everything.

This guy always whispers it in my ear.

This guy can't get to a gas station. He's out of gas.

This guy turns around. He's got no shirt on. He's sweating.

This is all the equivalent of enemy propaganda.

This is an image...

This is me when I was a year old. Later, I had long hair...

This is the most exciting time we could have hoped to be alive.

This is where we inherit our instincts.

This is where, I think, language came from.

This is why dreams are mistaken for reality.

This kind of continuous daydream or distraction.

This must be parallel universe night. That cat who just ran out the door?

This problem has been around since Aristotle, in 350 B.C.

This thing we're involved with, the world...

This was the late '50s, early '60s.

This way out. Escaping velocity. Not just eternity, but infinity.

This woman on TV tells me how death...

Thomas Mann wrote that he would rather participate in life than write.

Those six to 12 minutes of brain activity after everything shuts down.

Those who suffer from a lack of life...

Though difficult, the rewards will be great.

Though I'd never seen her image...

Three sixty vision, man. I can see in all directions. Cool, huh?

Tiger behind you! We made a sound for that.

To confront the familiar. Society is a fraud so complete...

To connect this baby in this weird image with yourself in the present...

To immerse ourselves in the oblivion of actions.

To look at human development, look at the organism's evolution...

To quote Stevenson:

To recognize it.

To say yes to one instant...

To say, It's a historical anecdote, it's sophomoric.

To the functional system of neural activity that creates our world...

Toot, toot.

Truffaut said the best films aren't made...

Two billion years for life, six million for the hominid...

Two management teams...

Two sides of the same coin!

Uh huh. Well, is the?

Under the new paradigm, they exist as a supportive...

Under the old paradigm, one would die, the other would dominate.

Want ketchup with that?

Wars, famines, floods and quakes meet well defined needs.

Water. We came up with a sound for that.

We are all coauthors of this dancing exuberance...

We are the authors of ourselves, coauthoring a Dostoyevsky novel...

We can't ignore the problem. We must find room in our world view for persons.

We go through life bouncing off one another...

We grasped for this new history, driven by suspicion...

We must realize we're being conditioned on a mass scale.

We saw it in the 20th century. Now, in the 21st century, we must realize...

We should not submit to dehumanization!

We think we're so limited by the world and the confines...

We think we're special, we have dignity.

We, the unappeased, continued looking...

We'll do it in the hospital...

We'll stand up and be human beings! We'll get fired up about real things!

We're all theory and no action.

We're called oneironauts, explorers of the dream world.

We're communicating on so many levels simultaneously.

We're drawn to that almost orgiastic state created out of destruction.

We're even talking about it. This is...

We're going:

We're in motion to the ocean. We are not landlocked!

We've been several different people.

Well, how do you feel?

Well, I don't know. For me, I just tend to cry.

Well, I mean, what could I say?

Well, that's all I got to say. It's in your court.

Weren't you in the boat car? The guy with the hat gave me a ride...

What a bunch of garbage. Liberal Democrat, conservative Republican.

What about you? What's your name?

What are you writing?

What do you think of my vessel?

What film would capture here right now...

What he fails to realize is that society has, as he does...

What is frustration? Or what is anger or love?

What is your consistent perspective?

What snapped me into realizing I was dreaming was my clock.

What sweet music that'll be.

What the hell? I can fly around, have a conversation with Albert Schweitzer.

What was missing was felt irretrievable.

What you've seen is the evolution of populations, not individuals.

What's it like to be a character in a dream? Because...

What's that mean?

What's the word, turd?

What's your address? What are you doing?

Whatever I am now.

When I say love...

When I was younger, there was a need for...

When I woke up, I was like, That wasn't a dream.

When it was over, all I could think about was how...

When Sartre talks about responsibility, it's not abstract.

When someone says that, usually you're in for a very boring few minutes.

When you think of it, almost all human behavior and activity...

Where most consider their relationship to the universe...

Where's that?

Which is the most universal human characteristic?

Which is weird. Most of the time I've been passive, not responding...

Who, me? Am I first? I don't know. Really, anywhere is fine.

Why I hung around. Now my departure is scheduled.

Why is world history and evolution not stories of progress...

Why so few?

Why so glum, Mr. Deborg?

Wilder asks him what the film's about.

Wilder says, You just lost $ 21/2 million.

Yeah, I'd be open. I'd look in your eyes...

Yeah, no...

Yeah, that sounds really cool. I'd love to be in it, but...

Yeah! Man... Well, I gotta go, man.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah. I still feel that way sometimes.

Yeah. You know what Benedict Anderson says about identity?

Yep, it's real. Technically, it's a phenomenon of sleep...

Yes, I accept. Yes, I embrace. That's the journey.

Yes, it's empty with such fullness...

You can train yourself to recognize it.

You can't do that in a lucid dream.

You can't fight city hall.

You can't... You're unique that way, Caveh.

You could laugh too. Why would you cry?

You gave me a ride in a car that was also a boat.

You guys let me off at this specific spot you gave him directions to.

You have begun to find answers.

You have to be able to ask yourself, Is this a dream?

You have to realize you're dreaming in the first place.

You have...

You keep trying to figure it out, but now you know you're dreaming...

You knit the two with neurobiology.

You know the best part?

You know they were a dumb fuck like everyone else.

You know, I haven't fired this in a long time, I don't know if it works.

You know, just like in my mind. So I got up...

You may get the eight pack or the 16 pack...

You might say, What about quantum mechanics? I know enough...

You might want to ignore the mystery of free will.

You need any help getting down, sir?

You pick up this two dimensional image and say, That's me.

You reach out your arm. It looks like a free action...

You see a further telescoping of evolutionary time.

You see how the evolutionary paradigm telescopes.

You'd be in the moment. The moment is holy, right?

You'll dig this.

You're gonna pay for what you did to me.

You're only held responsible or admired or respected...

You're talking about parasitism, dominance, morality...

Your serotonic neurons inhibit hallucinations.

And everyone knows, fun rules. Yeah.

Blue. B L U E. Pick a number.

Even exhilaration. Oh.

Everything is layers. Yeah.

Excuse me. Excuse me.

Fifteen. 1, 2, 3, 4...

Half of us are first round humans? No, no.

He won an award for that one. That's the one he wrote really fast.

Hey, what are you doing? I'm not sure.

Hey! Hey.

I read an article by a biochemist. Right.

I read this essay by Philip K. Dick. In your dream?

Know what I mean? Yeah.

lunatic macaroni munchkin with my goo gat...

Mm hm. Just end.

No. He talks about, say, a baby picture.

Six. Okay.

So if you believe in one eternal soul... Uh huh.

Something I said? Yeah.

The Blond Bee, Firefly, snake...

This is the pickup to 20. Okay.

To create your identity. The funny thing is...

Try it, see what you think. That one?

Uh huh. ...in relation to the population.

venerable tradition of sorcerers, shamans and visionaries...

What I'm saying... What's your point?

What was going on in your dream? A lot of people talking.

Will you try it more subdued? Okay.

Winning back to...

Yeah, you got it. Okay.

Yeah. You got it. Okay.

You got it. I got it?

You have these dreams a lot? I always make the best of it.

You want it... Slightly detached.

...5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15.

...100,000 years for mankind as we know it.

...a bunch of people figure out the same thing.

...a few times.

...a mental model.

...a new world was just as likely as an old one.

...a sudden exhilaration...

...all growth and change would stop.

...an exuberance of feeling on top of it.

...and actually the waking perception and action.

...and as I turn around, he's coming through the door. I saw his eyes.

...and breaks definitive.

...and classism, statism and other modes of control.

...and consumerism and art and commodity...

...and cultural, which is human expression.

...and four years later all these things happened.

...and have long, intricate dreams that seem hours long. Then I wake up and...

...and have some connection with one another.

...and he saw this kind of shady Iooking guy standing by his car.

...and his environmental interaction.

...and honoring people's ability to say what it is they want to see...

...and I walked out and stood on the curb...

...and if you don't like it, send it back, and you get what you pay for...

...and instead ofjust passing...

...and see ourselves as victims of various forces.

...and sees a dwarf.

...and starts running at me as fast as he can, going: