I'll give you an answer on this year old thread because I feel much the same way. Shit man I started fucking around with lucid dreaming after I saw this, keeping dream diaries and what not. Did the same thing with psychedelics for a while, trying to hold onto a feeling of epiphany. I acquired a DVD of this film from an obscure store and lent it and ripped and distributed it heaps of people, I still find my DVD rip on peoples hard drives that I've never met before. Later I started to study philosophy, reading classics at first then actually majoring in philosophy at university. Finally came to and realized that I had no chance of using that in any capacity and didn't want to climb the ivory tower of academia (really the only philosophical career pathway) and returned to the sciences. I guess in short it informed my taste in film for the future, inspired a serious interest and passion for philosophy and a pursuit of knowledge, I mean I spent two years studying philosophy and that would not have happened had I not seen this film during formative years. I'd even go so far to say that it had a role in informing my metaphysical beliefs as I deliberately reconstructed them during the philosophy phase. And it is still the easy answer to the favorite film question, I have no idea what comes second but I know what comes first, no brainer. When I saw it as a teenager at a film festival it was love at first sight, I'd never seen anything like it film, the changing art styles and unusual narrative structure, unnamed main character who goes missing for a portion of the film, the meta little nods and philosophical ideas I hadn't really been exposed to before outside of overly intellectual childish sleepover talk (you know strange conversation you have as a kid, like the nature of colour and whether your colours are the same as mine? Or maybe you didn't have those). It blew my mind a little bit and kept the flyer from the festival but I was about four years til I was reunited with the film again. Funnily enough the reason I'm here now responding to this thread is because I'm trying to find directors and artists commentaries because I lent my DVD out and didn't get it back and I haven't seen the commentaries in years and they're pretty interesting.
I love that all of these comments are so appreciative of this video - of this film. Thank you for making this compilation. I hope all of you are doing well. :)
I saw this with a girlfriend of mine and we were both tripping heavily on mushrooms(2 grams each...and good). To say it was existentially transformative would be an understatment. We absorbed every line, every idea, every character and it was as thought provoking, as mind blowing as anything I've ever seen. I saw it again sober to see if there was anything so heavy, we could not conceive of it's message at the time. But I found it just the opposite. The words and ideas resonated on a level that I think could only be appreciated and fully understood with an expanded consciousness.
Why haven't I found this earlier, right up my street this. Finally something to watch that is thought provoking on another level by the sound of things!
This is the same as non duality. All is one yet separate in a limited human mind, a paradox. A dream yet solid and concrete but the doubts and the neurosis all crushing down as you open your mind but life is still a mystery and infinite and we will never ever understand what it means, Life is just is.
May be that's what this movie is meant for! To make the ordinary people like u and me, to watch it again and again and again and.....inorder to completely grasp it's beauty and meaning...Have a great day brother...
You don't change a movie to suit the uneducated, you get educated to understand the movie. That's the entire point of this movie. To wake up. Jesus dude.
the first part in the college bout post modernism applies more than ever today. fellow liberals, do not take the role of victim, stop the blaming, and define your life by your actions not so called oppression and identy politics
The film was entirely rotoscoped, although it was shot using digital video of live actors with a team of artists drawing stylized ... This technique is similar in some respects to the rotoscope style of 1970s filmmaker Ralph Bakshi.
What I just realized watching this video (having seen the film in its entirety) is that the way you remember certain scenes from the film directly mirrors the way you remember bits and pieces of your dreams. You latch on to the moments that resonate with you the most and subconsciously filter out at least 2/3rds of the rest of it. *Hits Blunt
@Did you just Assume My Gender does it though? how do you know? it seems like our conscious only comes into being when we are born, so if it doesn't exist before we exist in psychical form then how does it exist afterwards?
"I don't want a straw, I want real human moments. I want to see you , and I want you to see me...I don't want to give that up.." If that doesn't raise your heart chakra to new heights, then I don't know what will.
If you're having trouble understanding this movie, maybe it's because you focus on the literal meaning of every phrase. I think the main meaning would be that we need to open our minds. My favourite quote from this video is "The trick is to combine your waking, rational abilities, with the infinite possibilities of your dreams. Because if you can do that, you can do anything."
People 'have trouble understanding it' because it's being deliberately magniloquent and obfuscatious in an effort to seem smarter than it actually is. This movie is trying so hard to be 2deep4u that it makes me want to pull my hair out. Go and read the work of real philosophers instead of being suckered in by this desperately pathetic trash.
To say yes to one instant, is to say yes to all of eternity. Because time, DOES NOT exist. Do you say yes to life?, ask yourself. After all your suffering, DO YOU say YES to life?.
And all of a sudden you know and understand the mysteries about Life and Death and your Own Mind due to experience. But to know ALL this means You will never wake up again.And with any luck be rejoined with those You lost that will also never wake up again.To die into a dream and hopefully not a nightmare.
I had a childhood. I was able to enjoy life at one time. I dont not enjoy life right now, but i dont enjoy life right now. Mental illness helps me subsist on laziness and fear, while i waste my ability to care on things thats im not going to do anything about. Why do i let myself unlive my life? I dont love myself, and i will never be able to after the accident. So why live? Is this real, i mean do my actions actually have consequences? If so, take me out now so i may not burden true living beings anymore!
“To say yes to one instance is to say yes to all instances.” I learned that the hard way and it’ll haunt me for the rest of my life. I’m just glad I’m learning these social wisdoms that you frequently reference.
So we havent met but I dont wanna an ant you know? I mean it's like we through life with our antemns bouncing off one another continuously on ant autopilot with nothing really human required of us. "Stop. Go. Walk here. Try there." All action basically for survival. All communication simply to keep this ant colony buzing along in an efficient polite manner. "Here's your change. Paper or plastic? Credit or debit? Want ketchup with that?" I dont wanna a straw! I want real human moments, I want to see you and I want you to see me. I dont wanna give that up; I dont wanna be an ant you know.
Lucid dreaming.... it’s something that I’ve done, but, it’s hard. You HAVE to recognize that you’re dreaming, for sure. Once you do, it’s still difficult not to wake yourself up and to take control and totally enjoy it.
@@chandrasimha5223 Time is an illusion. All reality is in the now, an ever changing instant that everyone contributes too. You, as a human, a peice of the infinite energy the universe, contributes to everything else. Like a dominie, you dont directly affect everything but you definitkey indirectly do which makes you importsnt.
You missed the best quote in the movie! "I have but recently returned from the valley of the shadow of death. I've been to the brink of total oblivion. I remember and fermented as I had to remember everything."
"Do you wanna know what I've been working on lately? It's way ambitious, but I'm getting better at it. You're gonna dig this. Three-sixty vision, man! I can see in all directions. Cool, huh?"
My best friend, watch this movie every night, to me this film is more than just a movie, it's very very very deep, it's like a life time of experience to realise this movie, you can watc this movie now and go back 5 years later and understand new things you didn t get
This movie changed my life when it came out in 2001...It is still very profound...Like "The Secret"...You have to own them both on DVD or Blueray...Every now and again; pull them out to refresh your soul...:)... And always remember...Super perfundo on the early eve of your day. If the world that we are forced to accept is false and nothing is true, then everything is possible.
@@FreeFormFemi it does mean something. if you're learning how to become lucid intentionally, doing practice to go deep once you wake up is an excellent method "super profundo" on the early eve of your day super profundo means "super deep" in spanish. to become lucid intentionally you need to learn deep relaxation.
You can literally hallucinate objects and beings into existence because what's happening is you're tapping into that pure abstract creative potential of mind. That's exactly what you want. Of course it can be kind of freaky but a psychedelic is that times a thousand. See so again the point is not to achieve some blissful state or to see some cool colors or to travel to some new dimension you can do all those things. That's nice, that's fun. The point is the lessons the insights you get and the meta understanding of how this entire process works because as you're exploring all your different domains you're learning about your own mind. How the mind of God is generating reality and why it's generating it. ☄
@@SavatageIsMyReligion No, they're just espousing existential nonsense to try to seem deep and smart, it's painful to listen to. They use confusing language to trick idiots into thinking they're smart, this movie isn't smart, you're just really stupid.
It was either Thoreau or Emerson wrote that dreams are the touchstone of our character. In a general sense I do believe this. In our dreams we see ourselves strip of our illusions about ourselves and oftentimes made to confront our neuroses and fears.
This movie threw me into a rabbithole of philosophy. Whatever is looking through my eyes would gladly be self aware in the dream of who or what ever. Conciousness is a scary thought to have.
The thing about the old man is I think about if we evolve does choice go away because you know right from wrong and your conscience grows enough to know the full range of consequences of your decision that you understand why you need to be good?
This is the exception that proves the rule one movie in a million because money rules the fairy tale and your all victims of the greed money made you a suicide
I love this movie.. Great in many Visual Ways and Deep Thought Theory Processing from character to character in every way. This movie deserves a part 2...Not sure how that would go down.But I do suggest it takes off exactly where this movie ended him floating into outer space. Then him being not only aware he is Lucidly aware he is dead and not gonna wake up but having his own section of outer space where he creates with his mind the landscape and characters are no longer generated by him and his mind, but simply show up because they are also dead and can no longer wake up. Can call this movie Walking Death. I'd watch/buy it.Waking Life is very educational as well I find myself pausing the movie to either look up words meanings they use as well as pause to think about the many complex theories the characters have. This is me being either all action and no theory.Or all theory and no action. lol
