
Waking Life
200199 min
AnimationDramaFantasy
DirectorRichard Linklater
A man shuffles through a dream meeting various people and discussing the meanings and purposes of the universe.
Original clips from this movie
But the trick is, you got to realize that you're dreaming in the first place. You got to be able to recognize it. You got to be able to ask yourself, 'Hey, man, is this a dream?'. See, most people never ask themselves that, when they're awake or especially when they're asleep. Seems like everyone's sleepwalking through their waking state or wake walking through their dreams.
Used by
- 1200 Mics — Acid for Nothing
'... experience is intangible. So much of what we perceive cannot be expressed. It's unspeakable. And yet, you know, 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.'
Used by
- Melicia — Experience
1200 Mics — Acid for Nothing
'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
First from the song by Dire Straits - Money for Nothing, others from the movie 'Waking Life'
Afgin — Communicate
'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.'
From 'Waking Life'
Ancient Beach — Dimension Seeker (Huicholity Remix)
'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.'
From 'Waking Life'
Atomic Pulse — Robotnico
"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
From the movie 'Waking Life'
Melicia — Experience
"... 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
From the movie 'Waking Life'
Melicia — Illusion Quest
"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
From the movie 'Waking Life'
Pixel — Happy Lepsia
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?
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Shpongle — Botanical Dimensions
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...
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Talamasca — Brain Activity
'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.'
Talamasca — Odyssey
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
From the movie 'Waking Life'