Waking Life

Man on the Train: Hey, are you a dreamer? The Dreamer: Yeah. Man on the Train: Haven't seen too many of you around lately. Things have been tough lately for dreamers. They say dreaming is dead, no one does it anymore. It's not dead it's just that it's been forgotten, removed from our language. Nobody teaches it so nobody knows it exists. And the dreamer is banished to obscurity. Well, I'm trying to change all that, and I hope you are too. By dreaming, every day. Dreaming with our hands and dreaming with our minds. Our planet is facing the greatest problems it's ever faced, ever. So whatever you do, don't be bored. This is absolutely the most exciting time we could have possibly hoped to be alive. And things are just starting.

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Man 3: If the world that we are forced to accept is false and nothing is true, then everything is possible. Man 4: On the way to discovering what we love, we will find everything we hate, everything that blocks our path to what we desire. Man 2: The comfort will never be comfortable for those who seek what is not on the market. A systematic questioning of the idea of happiness. Man 1: We'll cut the vocal chords of every empowered speaker. We'll yank the social symbols through the looking glass. We'll devalue society's currency. To confront the familiar. Man 4: Society is a fraud so complete and venal that it demands to be destroyed beyond the power of memory to recall its existence. Man 3: Where there is fire we will carry gasoline Man 4: Interrupt the continuum of everyday experience and all the normal expectations that go with it. Man 2: To live as if something actually depended on one's actions Man 1: To rupture the spell of the ideology of commodified consumer society, so our repre

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Pinball Playing Man: And that's what time is. That's what all of history is, this kind of continuous, you know, daydream or distraction. And so I read that, and I was like, 'Well, that's weird.' And then that night, I had a dream, and there was this guy in the dream who was supposed to be a psychic. But I was skeptical. I was like, 'He's not really a psychic' I was just thinking to myself. And then suddenly, I start floating, like levitating up to the ceiling. And as I almost go through the roof, I'm like, 'OK, Mr. Psychic, I believe you. You're a psychic. Put me down, please.' And I float down, and as my feet touch the ground, the psychic turns into this woman in a green dress. And this woman is Lady Gregory. Now, Lady Gregory was Yeats' patron, this, you know, Irish person. And though I'd never seen her image, I was just sure that this was the face of Lady Gregory. So we're walking along, and Lady Gregory turns to me and says, 'Let me explain to you the nature of the universe.' Now,

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