This era confuses dream and reality

Dana 2022-03-21 09:02:17

OH, GOD, did I get on the ship? Vertigo, graffiti-style pictures, bright and dazzling colors, often sober, and often dreamy. Keep walking and meet all kinds of people. Large paragraphs of dialogue.

The non-stop shaking of the camera made people drowsy. I tried my best to keep my eyes wide open and focus on the narration. Dry tears kept pouring out. Some spatiotemporal historical fragments also began to invade my mind. I gradually began to enjoy this feeling.

Walking alone in the cold and cold day and night, the empty streets, the strange city, sometimes makes people feel lonely and so terrifying, meeting some strange and friendly people, we talk, we communicate. Either get angry or laugh, so one is not afraid. I couldn't help laughing secretly, and my head became dizzy, like a feeling in a dream, this should be a dream, I was distracted in a dream, but twisting my arm is so painful. When he came to his senses, there was only that long shadow behind him. No, no. Must be too sleepy. not good. not good.

This is a dream, I know, because I just took medicine and lay down 20 minutes ago. The scene is very beautiful, very bright colors, the division of cells, the deconstruction of some molecular elements, there will also be gun battles and humorous comedies. This is not watching a movie, I am in it, walking and talking, happy, angry, sad, and easy to switch roles that I want. This is a very pleasant thing. But twisting the arm is not painful. This shouldn't be a dream, it shouldn't be a dream, my role hasn't finished yet, why is there always no ending, I shouted angrily, I tried to make this life longer and longer. No, no, my ears became more and more noisy, and I heard those familiar voices. not good. not good.

Fragments of some dreams I made into my life.

Some fragments of life I discarded into my dreams.

After the movie was over, I came back to my senses and rubbed my wet, swollen, half-awake eyes. And the only one of the guests looked at each other with red eyes and smiled.

The boundaries of all things are blurred by this era, and perhaps only in half-dreaming and half-awakening can one find a real sense of consolation.

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Waking Life quotes

  • Man on TV: A single ego is an absurdly narrow vantage from which to view this experience. And where most consider their individual relationship to the universe, I contemplate relationships of my various selves to one another.

  • Kim Krizan: Creation seems to come out of imperfection. It seems to come out of a striving and a frustration and this is where I think language came from. I mean, it came from our desire to transcend our isolation and have some sort of connection with one another. And it had to be easy when it was just simple survival. Like you know, "water." We came up with a sound for that. Or saber tooth tiger right behind you. We came up with a sound for that. But when it gets really interesting I think is when we use that same system of symbols to communicate all the abstract and intangible things that we're experiencing. What is like... frustration? Or what is anger or love? When I say love, the sound comes out of my mouth and it hits the other person's ear, travels through this byzantine conduit in their brain through their memories of love or lack of love, and they register what I'm saying and they say yes, they understand. But how do I know they understand? Because words are inert. They're just symbols. They're dead, you know? And so much of our 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 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.