Waking Life

'I want my... I want my MTV.'

'The trick is, you got to realise that you're dreaming in the first place. You got to be able to recognise it. You got to be able to ask yourself: Hey man, is this a dream?' @ 2:35

'Everyone knows fun rules.' @ 4:15

'Seems like everyone's sleep-walking through their waking state, or wake walking through their dreams.' @ 5:40

'Experience is intangible. So much of what we perceive cannot be expressed as speakable. And yet, when we communicate with one another and we we feel that we have connected and we think that we're understood, I think we have a feeling of almost spiritual communion. And that feeling might be transient, but I think it's what we live for.'

'Our past appeared frozen in the distance, and our every gesture and accent signified negation of the old world and the reach for a new one. How we lived created a new situation of exuberance and friendship. A subversive micro-society in the heart of a society which ignores us. Art was not the goal, but the occasion and method for locating our specific rhythm and buried possibilities of our time. The discovery of a true communication was what it was about. Or at least a quest for such a communication. With intention of finding and losing it. We, the unappeased, continued looking filling silences with our own wishes, fears and fantasies. Driven on by the fact that no matter how empty the world seemed no matter how degraded and used-up anything was still possible. Given the right circumstances a new world was just as likely as an old one.'

'Nowadays we know that the world operates according to some fundamental physical laws, and these laws govern the behavior of every object in the world. Now, these laws, because they're so trustworthy, they enable incredible technological achievements. But, look at yourself, we're just physical systems too. We're just complex arrangements of carbon molecules, mostly water. And our behavior isn't any exception to these basic physical laws. So it starts to look like whether God setting things up in advance and knowing everything or whether there are basic physical laws governing us, there's not much room for freedom. Some of you might be tempted to just ignore the question, ignore the mystery of free will.'

"You know they say that dreams are real only as long as they last. Could you say the same thing about life? You see, there's a lot of us that are mapping that mind-body relationship of dreams. We're called oneironauts." @ 0:13

'To the functional system of neural activity that creates our world there is no difference between dreaming ...'

'The time has come to project my inadequacies and dissatisfactions into the sociopolitical and scientific schemes.'

'You know, it wasn't like a typical dream. It seemed more like I'd walked into an alternate universe or something. Yep. It's real.'

'I mean technically, it's a phenomenon of sleep. Like, you can have so much damn fun in your dreams. And of course everyone knows, fun rules!'

'But the advantage to meeting others in the meantime is that one of them may present you to yourself.'

'One thing that comes from these guys is not a sense of anguish so much as an exuberance of feeling on top of it. It's like your life is yours to create.'

'But I think we are in a very significant moment in history. Those moments, those what we might call liminal, limit, frontier X-zone experiences are now becoming the norm.

Music for the people. What kind of music do you play?'

'People of Earth, this is Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz of the Galactic Hyperspace Planning Council. As you are probably aware, plans for the development of the outlying regions of the galaxy involve the building of a hyperspace express route through your star system. And your planet is one of those scheduled for demolition. There's no point acting all surprised about it. The plans and ...'

'Let me see your faces. Why? Because we don't trust strangers.'

'Communicate all the abstract and intangible things we're experiencing. What is frustration? Or what is anger or love? When I say love...'

'I think we have a feeling of almost spiritual communion. That feeling may be transient, but it's what we live for. The sound comes out of my mouth and hits the other person's ear...'

Listen to me. I have something I want to talk to you about. It's all right. I've blocked the signal so no one else can hear us. So, what? You gonna propose? I'm going back to the Matrix.

The streets are empty, the sky is gray, waiting for a sign, a sign from God. The sounds are moving fast.

You know, I just woke from a dream. It wasn't like a typical dream. It seemed more like I'd walked into an alternate universe. Yeah, it's real. So what was going on in your dream? A lot of people, a lot of talking.

"... experience is intangible. So much of what we perceive cannot be expressed, it's unspeakable, and when we communicate with one another and we feel that we have connected and we think that we're understood, I think we have a feeling of almost spiritual communion." @ 0:14 - "What is frustration, and what is anger, or love?" @ 2:49 - "When it gets really interesting, I think, is when we use that same system of symbols to communicate all the abstract ..." @ 5:17

"Now, what you've seen here is the evolution of populations, not so much the evolution of individuals. In addition, if you look at the timescale involved: two billion years for life, six million for the hominid, a hundred thousand years for mankind as we know it." @ 2:22

And now on the 21st Century, it's time to stand up and realize, that we should NOT allow ourselves to be crammed into this rat maze.We should not SUBMIT to dehumanization.

I'm concerned with the structure. I'm concerned with the systems of control. Those that control my life, and those that seek to control it EVEN MORE! I want FREEDOM! That's what I want, and that's what YOU should want!

it's gonna be the age of humankind, standing up for something PURE and something RIGHT! What a bunch of garbage, liberal, Democratic, conservative, Republican, it's all there to control you, two sides of the same coin! Two management teams, bidding for control of the CEO job of Slavery Incorporated! The TRUTH is out there in front of you, but they lay out this buffet of LIES! I'm SICK of it, and I'M NOT GONNA TAKE A BITE OUT OF IT! DO YA GOT ME?

Pick a colour... Blue... B-L-U-E... Pick a number... 8... 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8... Dream is destiny...

You know, I just woke from a dream. It wasn't like a typical dream, it seemed more like I'd walked into an alternate universe. Yep, it's real. I mean, technically it's a phenomenon of sleep, but you can have so much damn fun in your dreams. And of course, everyone knows fun rules. Yeah...

'Once in a great while, mankind unlocks a secret so profound... that our future is altered forever. Fire. Electricity. Splitting the atom. At the dawn of the 31st century, we unlocked another. It had the potential to change humanity's role in the universe. We called it the Titan project, and it was a testament... to the limitless power of the human imagination.'

'There's some electrical activity in your brain. Your neurons fire. They send a signal down into your nervous system. It passes along down into your muscle fibers. They twitch. You might, say, reach out your arm.'

'The Atreides House is building a secret army... using a technique unknown to us. A technique involving sound.'

'Every one of those, every part of that process... is actually governed by physical law.'

'Hey man, I guess you already took off or something. But, uh, remind me to tell you about this dream I had last night. 'cause there's some really funny stuff in it.'

What are you writing? A novel. What's the story? There's no story, it's just moods, gestures, people,..emotion In short, the greatest story ever told

Are you in the story? I don't think so.. but then I'm kinda reading it and writing it