Waking Life

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00:00:34 Um, pick a color.
00:00:37 Blue.
00:00:39 B- L-U-E.
00:00:43 - Eight. - 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8.
00:00:49 - Fifteen.
00:00:51 5, 6, 7, 8,
00:00:54 13, 14, 15.
00:00:58 - Six.
00:01:04 "Dream is destiny. "
00:02:51 Rock out.
00:02:53 Rock and roll.
00:02:58 Go, strings. Begin.
00:03:33 Sara, will you try that,
00:03:36 - Yeah.
00:03:39 - Okay. - Vibrato. Just try it
00:03:41 But what I want...
00:03:44 I mean, I want it to sound rich
00:03:48 due to being
00:03:50 - Do you want it, um...
00:03:52 That's what I was wondering.
00:03:58 Yeah, yeah, you got it.
00:04:01 Snazzy.
00:04:03 Okay, pick up to 20, please.
00:04:06 - Erik, this is a pickup to 20.
00:04:08 1, 2, 3.
00:05:08 Hey, man, it's me.
00:05:11 I thought maybe I could bum a ride
00:05:14 I could probably just take a cab,
00:05:20 Yeah, I guess I'll hang out
00:05:35 Ahoy there, matey!
00:05:39 You need a little hitch in your
00:05:43 Oh, um, yeah, actually, I was waiting for
00:05:47 All right.
00:05:52 - Hey, thanks.
00:05:54 Anchors aweigh!
00:06:00 So what do you think
00:06:03 She's what we call "see-worthy. "
00:06:07 I feel like my transport should be
00:06:10 Voila. And this? This is like
00:06:15 and every minute,
00:06:17 Now, I may not understand it. I may
00:06:20 But I'll tell you what, I accept it
00:06:24 You want to keep things on an even keel
00:06:27 You want to go with the flow.
00:06:31 The idea is to remain in a state of
00:06:36 Saves on introductions
00:06:39 The ride does not require
00:06:41 Just occupants.
00:06:44 It's like you come onto this planet
00:06:49 Now, you may get the 8-pack,
00:06:53 But it's all in what
00:06:56 the colors
00:06:58 Don't worry about drawing within
00:07:02 I say color outside the lines.
00:07:04 Don't box me in.
00:07:07 We are not landlocked,
00:07:11 So where do you want out?
00:07:13 Uh, who, me?
00:07:15 Um, I don't know.
00:07:18 Well, just... just give me an address
00:07:22 Tell you what,
00:07:25 take a right,
00:07:28 drop this guy off
00:07:32 - Where's that?
00:07:37 and it's gonna determine the course
00:07:42 All ashore
00:07:44 Toot toot!
00:09:13 The reason why I refuse
00:09:16 as just another French fashion
00:09:21 is that I think it has something very
00:09:25 I'm afraid we're losing the real
00:09:30 the sense of taking responsibility
00:09:33 the ability to make something of
00:09:38 Existentialism is often discussed
00:09:42 But I think the truth
00:09:45 Sartre once interviewed said he never
00:09:50 But one thing that comes out
00:09:53 is not a sense of anguish
00:09:57 a real kind of exuberance
00:10:00 It's like your life
00:10:03 I've read the post modernists
00:10:08 But when I read them, I always have
00:10:12 that something absolutely essential
00:10:16 The more that you talk about a person
00:10:21 or as a confluence
00:10:24 or as fragmented
00:10:27 what you do is you open up
00:10:31 And when Sartre
00:10:34 he's not talking about
00:10:36 He's not talking about the kind of self
00:10:41 It's something very concrete.
00:10:44 Making decisions. Doing things
00:10:48 It might be true that there are six
00:10:52 Nevertheless,
00:10:55 It makes a difference,
00:10:58 Makes a difference to other people
00:11:02 In short, I think
00:11:04 that we should never simply
00:11:06 and see ourselves as the victim
00:11:11 It's always our decision
00:11:24 Creation seems
00:11:27 It seems to come out of
00:11:32 And this is where I think
00:11:35 I mean, it came from our desire
00:11:41 and have some sort of
00:11:45 And it had to be easy
00:11:49 Like, you know, "water. "
00:11:52 Or, " Saber-toothed tiger right behind
00:11:56 But when it gets
00:12:00 is when we use that same system
00:12:06 all the abstract and intangible things
00:12:10 What is, like, frustration?
00:12:16 When I say "love,"
00:12:18 the sound comes
00:12:20 and it hits
00:12:23 travels through this
00:12:27 you know, through their memories
00:12:31 and they register what I'm saying
00:12:34 But how do I know they understand?
00:12:38 They're just symbols.
00:12:42 And so much of our experience
00:12:46 So much of what we perceive cannot
00:12:51 And yet, you know,
00:12:56 and we...
00:12:58 we feel that we
00:13:01 and we think that
00:13:03 I think we have a feeling
00:13:08 And that feeling might be transient,
00:13:23 If we're looking at the highlights
00:13:25 you have to look at
00:13:27 and then at the development of its
00:13:31 Evolution of the organism will begin
00:13:33 perceived through
00:13:36 coming to the evolution
00:13:38 Neanderthal, Cro-Magnon man.
00:13:40 Now, interestingly, what you're looking
00:13:44 biological,
00:13:46 development of the cities,
00:13:48 and cultural, which is
00:13:51 Now, what you've seen here
00:13:54 not so much the evolution
00:13:57 And in addition, if you look at
00:14:00 two billion years for life,
00:14:02 six million years
00:14:05 100,000 years for
00:14:08 you're beginning to see the telescoping
00:14:11 And then when you
00:14:14 when you get to scientific revolution
00:14:18 you're looking at 10,000 years,
00:14:21 You're seeing a further telescoping
00:14:25 What that means is that as we
00:14:28 it's gonna telescope to the point we
00:14:31 within our lifetime,
00:14:33 The new evolution
00:14:38 and it stems from two types of
00:14:40 The digital is
00:14:42 The analog results from molecular
00:14:46 And you knit the two together
00:14:48 Before on the old
00:14:51 one would die and the other
00:14:53 But under the new paradigm,
00:14:56 as a mutually supportive,
00:15:00 Okay, independent
00:15:02 And what is interesting here is that evolution
00:15:07 emanating from the needs
00:15:09 and not an external process,
00:15:13 where the individual is just
00:15:15 So, you produce a neo-human with a new
00:15:21 But that's only the beginning
00:15:24 because as
00:15:27 the input is now
00:15:29 As intelligence
00:15:31 as ability piles on ability,
00:15:34 Until what?
00:15:37 could be imagined as an enormous
00:15:40 human and neo-human
00:15:43 It could be something
00:15:44 It could be the amplification
00:15:46 the multiplication
00:15:49 Parallel existences now with the individual
00:15:55 And the manifestations
00:15:58 manifestations could be
00:16:01 That's the interesting part.
00:16:05 It's sterile.
00:16:07 And its manifestations are
00:16:10 You're talking about parasitism,
00:16:15 Uh, war, predation, these would
00:16:19 These would be
00:16:22 The new evolutionary paradigm will give
00:16:27 of justice, of freedom.
00:16:29 These will be the manifestations
00:16:32 That is what we would hope to see
00:18:25 A self-destructive man feels completely
00:18:30 He's an outsider
00:18:33 He thinks to himself,
00:18:36 What he fails to realize is that
00:18:41 a vested interest in considerable
00:18:45 These wars, famines, floods
00:18:54 Man wants chaos.
00:18:56 In fact, he's gotta have it.
00:18:58 Depression, strife, riots,
00:19:03 We're irresistibly drawn
00:19:06 created out of death
00:19:09 It's in all of us.
00:19:14 Sure, the media tries to put
00:19:17 painting them up
00:19:19 But we all know the function
00:19:22 to eliminate the evils
00:19:25 Their job is to persuade us to accept those
00:19:30 The powers that be want us
00:19:34 Hey, you got a match?
00:19:39 And they haven't given us
00:19:41 outside the occasional,
00:19:44 participatory act
00:19:47 You want the puppet on the right
00:19:52 I feel that the time has come
00:19:55 inadequacies
00:19:57 into the sociopolitical
00:20:01 let my own lack of a voice
00:21:09 I keep thinking about
00:21:12 - Something I said?
00:21:14 About how you often feel like
00:21:18 from the perspective of an old woman
00:21:21 - You remember that?
00:21:26 Like I'm looking back
00:21:29 Like my waking life
00:21:31 Exactly.
00:21:34 I heard that Tim Leary
00:21:37 that he was looking forward
00:21:40 when his body was dead,
00:21:43 They say that there's still 6 to 12 minutes of
00:21:48 And a second of dream
00:21:51 well, that's infinitely longer
00:21:54 - You know what I'm saying?
00:21:56 For example, I wake up
00:21:59 and then I go back to sleep
00:22:02 beautiful dreams
00:22:04 and then I wake up
00:22:07 Exactly. So then 6 to 12 minutes
00:22:11 I mean, that could be
00:22:14 I mean, you are that woman
00:22:19 Okay, so what if I am?
00:22:22 Whatever I am
00:22:24 I mean, yeah,
00:22:28 I'm still just as real
00:22:32 Yeah.
00:22:34 - I've been thinking also about
00:22:38 Just about reincarnation and where all
00:22:44 Everybody always say
00:22:48 of Cleopatra
00:22:51 I always want to tell them they were
00:22:55 I mean, it's impossible.
00:22:57 The world population has doubled
00:23:02 - So if you really believe in that ego
00:23:07 then you only have a 50% chance
00:23:10 And for it to be over 150 years old,
00:23:16 So what are you saying then?
00:23:19 or that we're all young souls like where
00:23:25 No, no. What I'm trying to say
00:23:29 reincarnation is just a...
00:23:31 a poetic expression of what
00:23:36 There was this article by this
00:23:39 and he was talking about how when
00:23:43 it has a billion years
00:23:47 And this is where
00:23:51 I like that.
00:23:54 this whole telepathic thing going on
00:23:58 whether we're
00:24:00 That would explain why
00:24:03 seemingly spontaneous, worldwide,
00:24:08 You know, like the same results poppin'
00:24:14 Some guy on a computer,
00:24:16 and then almost simultaneously, a bunch
00:24:20 - figure out the same thing.
00:24:22 They did this study. They isolated
00:24:26 and they monitored their abilities
00:24:31 in relation to
00:24:33 And then they secretly gave them
00:24:36 one that had already been answered
00:24:39 Their scores went up dramatically,
00:24:42 So it's like once the answers
00:24:45 you know, people can
00:24:48 It's like we're all telepathically
00:25:15 I'll get you motherfuckers
00:25:18 Oh, you're gonna pay
00:25:22 For every second
00:25:27 I'll see you spend
00:25:33 Oh, you fucks are gonna
00:25:35 No, no, not yet.
00:25:37 I want you cocksuckers
00:25:40 Oh, I'll fix your
00:25:43 Maybe a long needle
00:25:46 A hot cigar in your eye.
00:25:48 Nothin' fancy.
00:25:50 Some molten lead up the ass.
00:25:53 Ooh!
00:25:56 Or better still,
00:25:59 some of that old
00:26:01 Cut your eyelids off.
00:26:05 I'll just listen
00:26:09 Oh, what sweet music
00:26:12 Yeah. We'll do it
00:26:14 With doctors and nurses so you pricks
00:26:19 You know the best part?
00:26:21 The best part is you dick-smokin'
00:26:26 so you'll have to watch me
00:26:32 You'll see me bring that
00:26:34 to your wide-open eyeball...
00:26:39 till you're almost
00:26:42 But not quite...
00:26:44 'cause I want it to last
00:26:51 I want you to know
00:26:53 that I'm the one
00:26:55 Me!
00:26:56 And that
00:26:59 What unmitigated
00:27:02 That old drunken fart
00:27:05 What a pompous ass!
00:27:07 Judge not lest ye be judged!
00:27:10 All of you pukes are gonna die the day
00:27:20 I guarantee you'll regret
00:27:26 In a way, in our
00:27:28 It's easy to think that science
00:27:31 But some philosophical problems
00:27:34 Take the problem
00:27:36 This problem's been around
00:27:38 since before Aristotle
00:27:40 St. Augustine,
00:27:42 these guys all worried
00:27:45 if God already knows in advance
00:27:47 Nowadays we know that the world operates
00:27:53 and these laws govern the behavior
00:27:56 Now, these laws, because
00:27:59 they enable incredible
00:28:02 But look at yourself.
00:28:04 We're just complex arrangements
00:28:07 We're mostly water,
00:28:09 and our behavior isn't gonna be
00:28:12 So it starts to look like whether it's
00:28:15 and knowing everything
00:28:17 or whether it's these basic
00:28:20 There's not a lot of room
00:28:22 So now you might be tempted
00:28:24 ignore the mystery
00:28:26 Say, " Oh, well, it's just an historical
00:28:29 It's a question with no answer.
00:28:33 But the question keeps staring you
00:28:35 You think about individuality,
00:28:38 Who you are is mostly a matter
00:28:42 Or take responsibility.
00:28:45 you can only be found guilty
00:28:48 for things you did
00:28:51 The question keeps coming back, and we
00:28:54 It starts to look like all your
00:28:57 Think about how it happens. There's
00:29:00 Your neurons fire. They send
00:29:03 It passes along down
00:29:06 They twitch. You might, say,
00:29:09 Looks like it's
00:29:11 but every one of those...
00:29:14 is actually governed by
00:29:17 chemical laws,
00:29:19 So now it just looks like the Big Bang
00:29:22 and the whole rest
00:29:24 the whole rest of human history
00:29:26 is really just sort of the playing out
00:29:29 according to these basic
00:29:31 We think we're special. We think we
00:29:34 but that now
00:29:36 I mean, that's really
00:29:38 So you might be saying, " Well, wait a
00:29:41 "I know enough contemporary physical
00:29:44 "It's really
00:29:46 There's room. It's loose.
00:29:49 And that's gonna enable us
00:29:51 But if you look at the details,
00:29:54 because what happens is you have
00:29:57 and their behavior is
00:29:59 They swerve. Their behavior is absurd
00:30:04 and we can't understand it
00:30:07 It just does something out of the blue,
00:30:10 But is that gonna help
00:30:12 Should our freedom just be
00:30:14 just some random swerving
00:30:17 That just seems like it's worse.
00:30:19 in a big deterministic,
00:30:21 than just some
00:30:24 So we can't just ignore
00:30:26 We have to find room in our
00:30:28 with all that that it entails;
00:30:31 And that means trying
00:30:34 finding room for choice
00:30:36 and trying to understand
00:30:40 You can't
00:30:44 Don't talk about politics
00:30:46 This is all the equivalent of enemy
00:30:51 "Lay down, G.I.
00:30:53 We saw it all through
00:30:55 And now in the 21 st Century,
00:30:58 that we should not allow ourselves
00:31:01 We should not submit
00:31:04 I don't know about you, but I'm concerned
00:31:08 I'm concerned
00:31:10 I'm concerned with
00:31:12 those that control my life and those
00:31:16 I want freedom!
00:31:18 And that's what
00:31:20 It's up to each and every one of us to
00:31:24 the hatred, the envy and,
00:31:27 because that is the central mode of
00:31:31 so we'll willingly give up our
00:31:36 We have got to realize that we're
00:31:40 Start challenging this
00:31:43 The 21 st Century is
00:31:45 not the century of slavery, not the century
00:31:50 and classism and statism and all
00:31:54 It's gonna be
00:31:57 standing up for something
00:32:00 What a bunch of garbage... liberal
00:32:04 It's all there to control you.
00:32:07 Two management teams
00:32:10 The C.E.O. job of
00:32:13 The truth is out there in front of you,
00:32:17 I'm sick of it, and I'm not gonna take
00:32:21 Resistance is not futile.
00:32:24 Humankind is too good!
00:32:27 We're gonna stand up
00:32:30 We're gonna get fired up about the
00:32:33 creativity and the dynamic human
00:32:38 Well, that's it! That's all I got
00:32:45 The quest is
00:32:49 which is really
00:32:53 And once having
00:32:56 the affirmation
00:32:58 It bursts into a chain of affirmations
00:33:03 To say yes to one instant...
00:33:07 is to say yes
00:33:11 The main character is
00:33:15 It's mastery,
00:33:18 Throughout history,
00:33:21 to contain those experiences which
00:33:26 where the mind
00:33:30 But I think we are in
00:33:34 Those moments, those what
00:33:37 limit, frontier,
00:33:40 are actually now
00:33:42 These multiplicities
00:33:46 that have given great
00:33:49 are actually through entering
00:33:54 tasting and feeling
00:33:58 One might make a breakthrough
00:34:02 that holds them together.
00:34:05 And so the main character is,
00:34:11 greater, greater mind.
00:34:13 A mind that yet is to be.
00:34:16 And when we are obviously
00:34:19 you can see
00:34:23 radical attunement to individuality,
00:34:27 opens itself
00:34:30 So the story is
00:34:33 The moment is not just a passing,
00:34:38 And this is in the way
00:34:42 Yes, it's empty
00:34:47 that the great moment,
00:34:52 is pulsating in it.
00:34:55 And each one, each object,
00:35:00 leaves a mark.
00:35:02 And that story is singular.
00:35:04 But, in fact,
00:35:13 Time just dissolves into quick-moving
00:35:18 Either I'm moving fast or time is.
00:35:22 It's such a strange paradox.
00:35:26 I'm closer to the end of my life
00:35:29 I actually feel more than ever
00:35:33 When I was younger, there was
00:35:36 like there was an end to the path,
00:35:39 I know what you mean
00:35:43 "Oh, someday, like in
00:35:48 everything's going to just
00:35:52 It was like there was this plateau,
00:35:55 and I was climbing up it,
00:35:58 all growth and change
00:36:01 Even exhilaration. But that hasn't
00:36:06 I think that what we don't take into account
00:36:10 That's what's so great
00:36:12 - You know that thing Benedict
00:36:16 Well, he's talking about
00:36:19 So you pick up this picture, this two
00:36:24 Well, to connect this baby
00:36:27 with yourself living and
00:36:29 you have to make up a story like,
00:36:33 "and later I had long hair,
00:36:36 and now here I am. "
00:36:39 So it takes a story
00:36:42 to make you and the baby in the picture
00:36:47 And the funny thing is, our cells are
00:36:52 We've already become completely
00:36:55 and yet we always remain
00:36:58 Hmm.
00:37:20 Our critique began
00:37:22 with doubt.
00:37:24 Doubt became our narrative.
00:37:27 Ours was a quest
00:37:30 And we grasp toward this new history
00:37:33 that ordinary language
00:37:37 Our past appeared frozen
00:37:40 and our every gesture
00:37:42 signified the negation of the old world
00:37:46 The way we lived
00:37:49 one of exuberance
00:37:51 that of a subversive
00:37:53 in the heart of a society
00:37:56 Art was not the goal
00:37:59 for locating
00:38:01 and buried possibilities
00:38:03 The discovery of a true communication
00:38:06 or at least the quest
00:38:09 The adventure of finding it
00:38:12 We the unappeased, the unaccepting
00:38:14 filling in the silences with our
00:38:18 Driven forward by the fact that no
00:38:22 no matter how degraded and used up
00:38:26 we knew that anything
00:38:28 And, given
00:38:30 a new world was just
00:38:49 There are two kinds
00:38:52 those who suffer
00:38:55 and those who suffer from
00:38:58 I've always found myself
00:39:01 When you come to think of it,
00:39:04 almost all human
00:39:07 is not essentially any
00:39:11 The most advanced technologies
00:39:14 bring us, at best, up to
00:39:18 Actually, the gap between,
00:39:21 say, Plato or Nietzsche
00:39:24 is greater than the gap between
00:39:29 The realm
00:39:32 the true artist, the saint,
00:39:35 is rarely achieved.
00:39:37 Why so few?
00:39:39 Why is world history and evolution
00:39:45 but rather this endless and
00:39:48 No greater values
00:39:52 Hell, the Greeks 3,000 years ago
00:39:56 So what are these barriers
00:39:59 from reaching anywhere
00:40:03 The answer to that can be found in
00:40:08 Which is the most universal
00:40:12 fear or laziness?
00:40:26 What are you writing?
00:40:32 A novel.
00:40:35 What's the story?
00:40:37 There's no story.
00:40:39 It's just...
00:40:41 people, gestures,
00:40:45 bits of rapture,
00:40:49 In short,
00:40:51 the greatest stories
00:40:57 Are you in the story?
00:41:01 I don't think so.
00:41:04 But then I'm kind of reading it
00:41:13 It was in the middle of
00:41:17 but on the way to Vegas,
00:41:20 every once in a while
00:41:23 It was the last gas stop
00:41:26 Office had the chair,
00:41:29 and that was all the room
00:41:32 I was asleep,
00:41:36 You know,
00:41:40 So I got up, and I walked out,
00:41:44 and I stood on the curb of
00:41:48 you know, the driveway there.
00:41:50 I'm rubbing the sand out of my eyes,
00:41:53 and way down at the very end
00:41:58 they had tire racks.
00:42:00 Chains around them, you know.
00:42:02 And I see there's
00:42:06 And there's a guy
00:42:09 and he's packing
00:42:12 with all of these tires.
00:42:16 He's got the last two tires
00:42:21 pushes them into the thing,
00:42:23 and then I, of course,
00:42:27 This guy turns around,
00:42:31 he's sweating, he's built
00:42:35 pulls out a knife,
00:42:38 and then starts running at me
00:42:47 I'm still...
00:42:51 "This is wrong. "
00:42:56 stuck my hand behind the cash register
00:43:01 pull it out,
00:43:05 and just as I turned around,
00:43:09 And I could see his eyes.
00:43:13 And he just had bad thoughts
00:43:19 And I fired a round, and it hit him.
00:43:23 Bang. He went... as fast as he was
00:43:28 Went right up between the two pumps,
00:43:32 And he must've been on drugs,
00:43:36 because he stood up...
00:43:39 and he still had the knife, and
00:43:44 and he stood up and he went like that,
00:43:48 And I was pretty much in shock,
00:43:50 so I just held the trigger back
00:43:53 It's one of those old-time...
00:43:58 And I blew him
00:44:00 And ever since then,
00:44:03 I always carry this.
00:44:07 I hear that.
00:44:09 A well-armed populace
00:44:12 I'll drink to that.
00:44:19 And you know,
00:44:22 I haven't fired this in such a long
00:44:24 Why don't you pull the trigger
00:45:22 I'm not here. Leave a message.
00:45:24 Hey, man. I guess you already
00:45:27 But, uh, remind me to tell you
00:45:32 'cause there's some
00:45:35 All right, man. Uh, I guess
00:45:47 Bareback riding. Copenhagen William...
00:45:50 and his horse Same Deal.
00:45:52 ...for a hat band.
00:45:56 I do not await the future,
00:45:58 anticipating salvation,
00:46:00 not even enlightenment
00:46:02 I subscribe to the premise that this flawed
00:46:08 in every single,
00:46:12 The Blonde Bee,
00:46:15 ...lunatic macaroni munchkin
00:46:22 ...venerable tradition of sorcerers,
00:46:27 who have developed and perfected
00:46:30 the so-called
00:46:34 where, by consciously
00:46:36 you're able
00:46:39 beyond your capacity to apprehend
00:46:48 - Winning back-to-back...
00:46:52 A single ego is an absurdly narrow vantage
00:46:58 And where most consider their
00:47:02 I contemplate
00:47:04 of my various selves
00:47:07 While most people
00:47:10 are having trouble
00:47:12 at age 92,Joy Cullison's
00:47:15 #Now I'm free to see the world ##
00:47:39 Hey, how's it going?
00:47:44 They say that dreams are real
00:47:47 Can't you say
00:47:49 A lot of us out there are mapping
00:00:04 Really, it's just about the two
00:00:07 which don't really
00:00:10 See, in the waking world,
00:00:12 the neuro-system inhibits the activation
00:00:15 This makes evolutionary sense.
00:00:17 It'd be maladapted for the perceptual
00:00:21 to be mistaken for the memory
00:00:24 If the memory of a predator
00:00:28 we'd be running off to the bathroom
00:00:31 So you have
00:00:33 that inhibit hallucinations...
00:00:35 that they themselves
00:00:39 This allows dreams
00:00:41 while preventing competition
00:00:45 This is why dreams
00:00:49 To the functional system of neural
00:00:54 there is no difference between dreaming
00:00:59 and actually the waking
00:01:18 I had a friend once
00:01:20 that the worst mistake
00:01:22 is to think
00:01:28 when really you're asleep
00:01:40 The trick is to combine...
00:01:43 your waking
00:01:46 with the infinite
00:01:50 'Cause if you can do that,
00:01:55 Did you ever have a job that
00:01:58 A long, hard day of work. Finally you get
00:02:04 And immediately
00:02:06 that the whole day at work
00:02:16 It's bad enough that you sell your
00:02:21 but now they get
00:02:27 Hey, man,
00:02:29 I fancy myself the social lubricator
00:02:33 helping people become lucid
00:02:36 Cut out all that fear and anxiety
00:02:40 By becoming lucid, you mean just knowing
00:02:43 Yeah. And then
00:02:45 They're more realistic and less
00:02:49 You know,
00:02:52 It wasn't like a typical dream. It seemed more
00:02:55 Yeah, it's real.
00:02:57 I mean, technically,
00:03:01 but you can have
00:03:04 And, of course,
00:03:06 - Yeah.
00:03:10 Oh. A lot of people.
00:03:12 Some of it was kind of absurdist,
00:03:16 Mostly, it was just people going off
00:03:20 I woke up wondering, where did
00:03:23 - You can control that.
00:03:27 Hell, yeah. I'm always
00:03:30 But the trick is, you got to realize
00:03:33 You got to be able
00:03:35 You got to be able to ask yourself,
00:03:39 Most people never
00:03:41 when they're awake or especially
00:03:44 Seems like everyone's sleepwalking
00:03:47 or wakewalking
00:03:49 Either way they're not
00:03:52 The thing that snapped me into realizing I
00:03:56 I couldn't really read it. It was like the
00:04:01 Yeah, that's real common. And small
00:04:04 Very unstable.
00:04:06 Another good tip-off
00:04:09 You can't really do that.
00:04:11 If you see a light switch nearby,
00:04:15 That's one of the few things
00:04:18 What the hell.
00:04:20 have an interesting conversation
00:04:23 I can explore all these
00:04:26 not to mention I can have any kind
00:04:31 So I can't adjust
00:04:34 But that's one of the things you do to
00:04:37 Yeah, like I said, you can totally
00:04:40 I mean, just hit a light switch
00:04:43 If the lights are on and you can't turn
00:04:47 And then you can
00:04:49 And believe me,
00:04:51 - Hey, you know what I've been
00:04:54 Oh, man, it's way ambitious,
00:04:58 You're gonna dig this.
00:05:02 I can see in all directions.
00:05:04 Yeah. Wow.
00:05:07 Well, I got to go, man.
00:05:09 Okay, later, man. Super perfundo
00:05:12 - What's that mean?
00:05:16 Maybe you can.
00:05:19 Louis. He's a recurring
00:06:51 Cinema, in its essence,
00:06:53 is about reproduction
00:06:55 which is that, like,
00:06:59 And for him, it might sound like
00:07:02 And he feels like, um...
00:07:06 like... like literature
00:07:09 And if you tell a story
00:07:11 "This guy walks into a bar
00:07:16 That works really well because you're
00:07:20 And it's an imaginative
00:07:22 In film, you don't have that because you
00:07:25 in a specific bar
00:07:28 - of a specific height who looks
00:07:30 So like, um, for Bazin, what the
00:07:35 it has to deal
00:07:37 - Photography also has an ontology,
00:07:39 except that it adds
00:07:41 and this
00:07:43 And so,
00:07:46 at that moment
00:07:49 And, you know, Bazin
00:07:51 so he, like, believes
00:07:53 in God, obviously,
00:07:57 For him, reality and God
00:08:00 And so what film is actually capturing
00:08:04 You know, like this very moment,
00:08:10 And what the film would capture
00:08:13 would be, like,
00:08:15 and God is you and God is me and God
00:08:18 and saying and thinking
00:08:20 - because we're all God
00:08:23 So film is like a record of God
00:08:26 or of the ever-changing
00:08:28 You have a mosquito.
00:08:30 - You got it. Yeah.
00:08:34 And the whole Hollywood thing
00:08:36 and tried to make it
00:08:38 where you take
00:08:40 and then you,
00:08:42 you get the script and then try
00:08:44 But it's ridiculous.
00:08:46 It shouldn't
00:08:48 It should be based
00:08:51 And, um...
00:08:53 they're almost right
00:08:55 - because then it's about that person
00:08:59 Truffaut always said
00:09:03 The best scripts don't
00:09:06 because they have that kind of literary,
00:09:10 The best films are the ones
00:09:14 So, um...
00:09:16 The whole narrative thing
00:09:19 Obviously, there's narrativity
00:09:21 just the way there's
00:09:23 You don't first think of the story
00:09:26 It has to come
00:09:28 That's what film has.
00:09:32 You know, like this
00:09:34 But we walk around
00:09:36 We walk around like there's some holy
00:09:38 - that are not holy, but this
00:09:41 And film
00:09:43 We can frame it so that we see,
00:09:47 Like "holy, holy, holy"
00:09:49 But who can live that way?
00:09:52 Because if I were to look at you
00:09:55 I don't know. I would,
00:09:57 Well, you'd be in the
00:10:01 Yeah, but I'd be open.
00:10:03 I'd look in your eyes
00:10:07 and I'd feel all this stuff
00:10:10 It would make you
00:10:12 You could laugh too.
00:10:15 Well, 'cause...
00:10:17 For me,
00:10:20 Uh-huh. Well...
00:10:24 Well, let's do it right now.
00:10:51 - Everything is layers, isn't it?
00:10:53 There's the holy moment
00:10:56 of trying to have
00:10:58 in the same way that the film
00:11:02 but then the character pretending
00:11:05 It's all these layers.
00:11:08 And, uh, I was in and out
00:11:13 Can be in a holy...
00:11:16 That's one
00:11:18 You can...
00:11:41 If the world that we are forced
00:11:46 then everything
00:11:48 On the way to discovering what we love,
00:11:50 everything that blocks
00:11:53 The comfort will never be comfortable for
00:11:55 A systematic questioning
00:11:58 We'll cut the vocal chords
00:12:01 We'll yank the social symbols through the
00:12:05 To confront
00:12:07 Society is a fraud
00:12:09 that it demands to be destroyed beyond the
00:12:14 Where there's fire,
00:12:16 Interrupt the continuum
00:12:18 and all the normal
00:12:21 To live as if something
00:12:24 To rupture the spell of the ideology
00:12:27 so that our oppressed desires of a more
00:12:31 To demonstrate the contrast between what
00:12:34 To immerse ourselves in the oblivion of
00:12:38 There will be an intensity
00:12:40 to exchange love and hate,
00:12:42 terror and redemption,
00:12:45 An affirmation of freedom
00:12:47 that it amounts to a total denial of
00:13:02 - Hey, old man, what you doing up there?
00:13:06 You need any help
00:13:10 No, I don't think so.
00:13:13 Stupid bastard.
00:13:15 No worse than us.
00:13:19 We're all theory
00:13:31 Why so glum,
00:13:34 What was missing
00:13:39 The extreme
00:13:41 of subsisting
00:13:45 made excesses necessary...
00:13:48 and breaks definitive.
00:13:50 To quote Stevenson:
00:13:53 "Suicide carried off many.
00:13:57 "Drink and the devil...
00:14:00 took care of the rest. "
00:14:13 - Hey.
00:14:15 You a dreamer?
00:14:19 Yeah.
00:14:23 I haven't seen too many
00:14:27 Things have been tough
00:14:30 They say dreaming's dead,
00:14:34 It's not dead.
00:14:37 Removed from
00:14:39 Nobody teaches it,
00:14:45 The dreamer is
00:14:49 I'm trying to change all that,
00:14:53 By dreaming every day.
00:14:56 Dreaming with our hands
00:15:00 Our planet is facing the greatest
00:15:05 So whatever you do,
00:15:07 This is absolutely the most exciting time
00:15:11 And things
00:15:30 A thousand years
00:15:32 There's nothing new, nothing different.
00:15:36 The same clouds,
00:15:38 the same insight felt
00:15:40 There's nothing here
00:15:43 Now I remember. This happened
00:15:50 You have begun
00:15:53 Although it will seem difficult,
00:15:56 Exercise your human mind
00:15:58 knowing it is
00:16:01 Build beautiful artifacts,
00:16:03 explore the secrets
00:16:06 Savor the input
00:16:08 Feel the joy and sorrow, the laughter,
00:16:11 and tote the emotional
00:16:14 I remember where I came from
00:16:18 Why I hung around. And now my final
00:16:21 This way out.
00:16:24 Not just eternity,
00:16:54 - Excuse me.
00:17:01 Hey. Could we
00:17:04 I know we haven't met, but I don't
00:17:08 I mean, it's like
00:17:11 with our antennas
00:17:14 continuously
00:17:16 with nothing really human
00:17:21 Stop. Go.
00:17:24 All action
00:17:27 All communication simply to keep
00:17:31 in an efficient,
00:17:33 "Here's your change. " " Paper
00:17:38 "You want ketchup
00:17:41 I don't want a straw.
00:17:45 I want to see you.
00:17:48 I don't want to give that up.
00:17:54 Yeah. Yeah, I know.
00:17:57 I don't want
00:17:59 Yeah, thanks for kind of,
00:18:02 I've been kind of
00:18:05 I don't feel like an ant in my head,
00:18:09 It's kind of like D.H. Lawrence had this
00:18:14 And instead of just passing
00:18:17 they decided to accept what he calls
00:18:21 It's like, um... like freeing
00:18:25 Then it's like
00:18:29 I'm doing this project. I'm hoping
00:18:32 It's a soap opera,
00:18:34 and, so, the characters
00:18:37 They're the alter egos of
00:18:40 So you pretty much just figure out
00:18:43 or the life you've wanted to lead
00:18:47 And we write that in, and then we
00:18:51 with other people's in the soap opera
00:18:56 Then I also want to show it
00:19:00 and have the actors present
00:19:04 then the audience
00:19:06 the actors for subsequent
00:19:10 So it has a lot to do with choices
00:19:14 to say what it is
00:19:16 and also consumerism
00:19:20 And if you don't like what you got,
00:19:24 or you get
00:19:26 orjust participating,
00:19:30 - So, you wanna do it?
00:19:35 I'd love to be
00:19:38 Uh, I kinda gotta ask you
00:19:42 I don't really know
00:19:44 uh, what's it like to be
00:19:48 'Cause, uh, I'm not
00:19:52 And I haven't even worn
00:19:54 I think this is
00:19:57 Um... Uh, yeah.
00:19:59 I don't even know if you're able
00:20:03 But I'm just trying to get like a sense
00:20:08 So, what about you? What's your name?
00:20:13 What are you doing?
00:20:15 I... I... You know,
00:20:18 I can't really...
00:20:21 But that's
00:20:23 whether or not I can dredge up
00:20:26 about, you know,
00:20:30 my mom's maiden name
00:20:33 I've got the benefit in this reality,
00:20:37 of a consistent
00:20:39 What is your
00:20:43 It's mostly just me dealing
00:20:47 who are...
00:20:49 exposing me
00:20:52 that... seem
00:20:56 but, at the same time,
00:20:58 it's all very alien to me.
00:21:01 I'm not in an objective,
00:21:06 Like, I've been,
00:21:08 Uh...
00:21:10 I don't know. It's weird, too,
00:21:14 It's more like this whole
00:21:17 Like the lucidity wavers.
00:21:19 Like, right now I know
00:21:21 We're, like,
00:21:23 This is the most in myself and in
00:21:29 I'm talking
00:21:31 But I'm beginning
00:21:35 that it's something that I don't
00:21:39 It's... It's totally unique.
00:21:42 The... The quality
00:21:46 and the information
00:21:49 Like your soap opera,
00:21:51 That's a really cool idea.
00:21:54 I didn't come up with that.
00:21:58 It's like something
00:22:02 I don't know what this is.
00:22:04 We seem to think we're
00:22:07 and... and the confines,
00:22:11 And you keep trying
00:22:13 but it seems like now that you know
00:22:17 you can do
00:22:19 You're, uh, dreaming,
00:22:22 You have, um,
00:22:26 and that's
00:22:29 I understand
00:22:30 It's up to me.
00:22:33 It's weird. Like, so much
00:22:36 that... that these people
00:22:40 I don't know. It's got this, like,
00:22:44 - Well, how do you feel?
00:22:47 Well, sometimes
00:22:49 but most of the time,
00:22:53 really, like, engaged
00:22:55 Which is kind of weird
00:22:58 I've just been really passive
00:23:01 except for now, I guess.
00:23:03 I'm just kind of letting
00:23:06 It's not necessarily passive
00:23:10 We're communicating
00:23:16 Perhaps you're...
00:23:19 Most of the people that
00:23:22 and most of the things
00:23:26 it's like they kind of say it
00:23:30 It's, like,
00:23:34 It's not like I'm having a bad dream.
00:23:38 But...
00:23:40 it's so unlike any other dream
00:23:44 It's like the dream.
00:23:49 It's like I'm being
00:24:20 "On this bridge,"
00:24:24 "life is not a dream.
00:24:26 "Beware and beware and...
00:24:30 beware. "
00:24:33 And so many think
00:24:36 "now" isn't.
00:24:38 But didn't I mention the ongoing "wow"
00:24:44 We are all coauthors
00:24:47 where even our inabilities
00:24:51 We are the authors
00:24:53 coauthoring a gigantic
00:24:57 This entire thing we're involved
00:25:00 is an opportunity to exhibit
00:25:05 Life is a matter of a miracle
00:25:10 by moments flabbergasted
00:25:13 The world is an exam to see if we can
00:25:19 Our eyesight is here as a test
00:25:23 Matter is here as a test
00:25:26 Doubt is here as an exam
00:25:29 Thomas Mann wrote that he would
00:25:33 than write
00:25:35 Giacometti was once
00:25:39 and he recalled
00:25:43 a sudden exhiliration,
00:25:45 as he realized at last
00:25:49 An assumption develops that you cannot
00:25:54 I do not agree entirely. Which is
00:25:59 I would say that life
00:26:03 But the paradoxes bug me,
00:26:06 and I can learn to love
00:26:09 to the paradoxes
00:26:11 And on really romantic
00:26:14 I go salsa dancing
00:26:17 Before you drift off,
00:26:21 Which is to say,
00:26:23 Because remembering is so much more
00:26:28 Lorca in that
00:26:31 that the iguana will bite those
00:26:35 And as one realizes...
00:26:39 that one
00:26:42 in another person's dream,
00:26:45 that is self-awareness.
00:27:13 You haven't
00:27:18 But the advantage to meeting others
00:27:22 is that one of them
00:27:29 Examine the nature...
00:27:31 of everything
00:27:34 For instance,
00:27:36 you might find yourself
00:27:39 a dream parking lot.
00:27:42 And, yes, those are dream feet
00:27:46 Part of your dream self.
00:27:50 the person you appear
00:27:53 cannot be
00:27:55 This is an image,
00:27:58 a mental model.
00:28:22 Do you remember me?
00:28:24 No. No, I don't think so.
00:28:26 At the station?
00:28:28 You were on the pay phone
00:28:32 a few times.
00:28:35 I remember that,
00:28:38 Are you sure?
00:28:42 Well, maybe not.
00:28:46 I was sitting down...
00:28:49 and you were looking at me.
00:29:45 My little friend, dream no more.
00:29:50 It's called Efferdent Plus.
00:29:52 In hell, you sink to the level
00:29:55 In heaven, you rise to the level
00:29:58 Hurry up! Come on!
00:30:02 Allegedly,
00:30:05 Billy Wilder
00:30:08 This was in the late '50s,
00:30:10 And Louis Malle had just made his most expensive
00:30:14 And Billy Wilder asks him
00:30:17 And Louis Malle says,
00:30:21 And Billy Wilder says,
00:30:24 I feel a little more apprehensive
00:30:35 Down through the centuries, the notion
00:30:38 has been a pervasive theme
00:30:42 So doesn't it make sense that death,
00:30:47 That, after death,
00:30:50 in what might be called,
00:30:53 It would be the same dream body you
00:30:57 Except that
00:31:01 you could never
00:31:03 never again return
00:31:16 As the pattern gets
00:31:19 being swept along
00:31:45 What's the word, turd?
00:31:49 Hey, do you also
00:31:51 - A what? - You gave me a ride
00:31:56 No, man, I don't have a boat car.
00:32:01 Man, this must be, like,
00:32:04 You know that cat
00:32:06 who just ran out
00:32:08 Well, he comes up to the counter,
00:32:10 And he lays down this burrito and he kind of
00:32:14 "I have but recently returned from
00:32:17 "I'm rapturously breathing in all
00:32:20 "I've been to the brink
00:32:22 I remember and ferment the desire
00:32:29 So, what did
00:32:31 Well, I mean,
00:32:33 I said, " If you're gonna
00:32:36 "I want you to poke holes in the
00:32:39 And I'm tired of cleaning up your
00:32:48 'Cause the jalapenos
00:32:50 They're like little wheels.
00:32:56 When it was over,
00:32:59 was how this entire
00:33:03 what we are, is just...
00:33:06 this logical structure,
00:33:09 a place to momentarily
00:33:15 It was a time
00:33:17 to give form and coherence
00:33:22 And I had been a part of that.
00:33:25 Life was raging
00:33:29 and every moment
00:33:32 I loved all the people,
00:33:35 dealing with all
00:33:39 That's what I loved the most...
00:33:44 Looking back, that's
00:34:45 Kierkegaard's last words
00:37:46 - Hey, man.
00:37:54 Weren't you
00:37:56 You know, the guy...
00:37:59 He gave me a ride
00:38:03 and you were in
00:38:05 I'm not saying you don't know
00:38:08 but I don't know
00:38:11 No, see, you guys let me off
00:38:14 that you gave him directions
00:38:16 I get out and ended up
00:38:19 But then I just woke up
00:38:21 and later, I found out
00:38:24 dreaming
00:38:28 Those are called "false awakenings. "
00:38:31 But I'm still in it now.
00:38:33 I can't get out of it.
00:38:36 I keep waking up, but I'm just
00:38:40 I'm starting to get creeped out too,
00:38:44 This woman on TV's telling me
00:38:48 that exists outside of life.
00:38:50 I mean, I'm starting
00:38:57 I'm gonna tell you
00:39:00 I know that when
00:39:02 usually you're in for a very boring
00:39:05 But it sounds like...
00:39:09 Anyway, I read this essay
00:39:12 What, you read it
00:39:14 No, no. I read it
00:39:16 It was the preamble
00:39:18 It was about that book,
00:39:21 - You know that one?
00:39:25 Right. That's the one
00:39:27 It just, like, flowed
00:39:29 He felt he was sort
00:39:32 But anyway, about four years
00:39:34 he was at this party
00:39:36 who had the same name
00:39:39 And she had a boyfriend with the same name
00:39:43 and she was having an affair
00:39:47 And he had the same name
00:39:50 So she's telling him
00:39:52 and everything she's saying
00:39:55 So that's really freaking him out,
00:39:58 And shortly after that,
00:40:02 and he saw this kind of, um, dangerous,
00:40:07 But instead of avoiding him, which he
00:40:10 he walked right up to him
00:40:12 And the guy said,
00:40:15 He pulls out his wallet and he hands him some
00:40:19 And then he gets home and
00:40:22 This guy can't get
00:40:25 So he gets back in his car. He finds
00:40:30 And as he's pulling up
00:40:32 he realizes, " Hey,
00:40:35 This exact station.
00:40:39 So this whole episode
00:40:43 And he's telling
00:40:45 describing
00:40:47 and four years later,
00:40:49 And as he's telling it to him, the
00:40:53 You're describing
00:40:55 He's like, "I've never
00:40:57 So he goes home
00:40:59 and it's, like,
00:41:01 Even the characters' names
00:41:06 And the Book of Acts takes place in 50
00:41:09 So Philip K. Dick
00:41:11 that time was an illusion and that
00:41:16 And the reason that he
00:41:18 was that he had somehow momentarily
00:41:22 this veil of time.
00:41:24 And what he had seen was what
00:41:27 And he was really
00:41:30 and this idea
00:41:32 had created this illusion
00:41:35 that Christ
00:41:37 and the kingdom of God
00:41:40 and that we're all in 50 A.D. and
00:41:44 you know, that... you know,
00:41:46 And that's what time is.
00:41:49 this kind of continuous,
00:41:53 And so I read that,
00:41:56 And then that night,
00:41:58 and there was this guy in the dream
00:42:01 But I was skeptical. I was like,
00:42:04 I was just thinking
00:42:06 And then suddenly,
00:42:08 like levitating
00:42:10 And as I almost go
00:42:12 "Mr. Psychic, I believe you. You're
00:42:16 And I float down,
00:42:19 the psychic turns
00:42:23 And this woman
00:42:25 Now, Lady Gregory was Yeats' patron,
00:42:28 And though I'd
00:42:31 I was just sure that this was
00:42:35 So we're walking along,
00:42:38 "Let me explain to you
00:42:42 "Now, Philip K. Dick is right about
00:42:46 "Actually, there's only
00:42:49 "And it's eternity.
00:42:51 "And it's an instant
00:42:55 "And that question is, basically,
00:42:58 "'be one with eternity?
00:43:00 "Do you want to be
00:43:02 "And we're all saying, 'No,
00:43:06 And so time is actually just
00:43:09 to God's invitation.
00:43:11 That's what time is. It's no more
00:43:16 There's just this one instant,
00:43:20 And then she tells me that actually this
00:43:24 That behind the phenomenal difference,
00:43:28 and that's the story of moving
00:43:32 All of life is,
00:43:35 Then ultimately it's,
00:43:38 Yes, I accept.
00:43:40 I mean, that's the journey.
00:43:42 - Everyone gets to the "yes"
00:43:48 So we continue walking,
00:43:52 So I'm petting him. I'm really happy
00:43:55 So I'm petting him
00:43:57 there's this kind of gross oozing stuff
00:44:01 And I look over at Lady Gregory,
00:44:04 She's like...
00:44:07 And there's vomit dribbling down
00:44:10 And I think,
00:44:13 "That's not just the smell of vomit,
00:44:17 "That's the smell
00:44:19 You know,
00:44:22 And then I realize I'm actually in,
00:44:26 And everyone
00:44:28 My dog had been dead over ten years.
00:44:31 When I finally woke up, I was like,
00:44:35 That was a visitation to this
00:44:39 - So what happened? How did you
00:44:43 It was just like one of those,
00:44:47 I could never really look at the world
00:44:50 Yeah, but how did you
00:44:54 See, that's my problem.
00:44:56 I keep... I keep thinking that I'm
00:44:59 It seems like it's going on forever.
00:45:02 I wanna wake up for real.
00:45:05 I don't know.
00:45:09 But, um, if that's
00:45:11 I mean, you probably should.
00:45:14 If you can wake up,
00:45:16 because someday
00:45:18 So just, um...
00:45:20 Just... Just...