Thread: Waking life (lucid dreaming movie)

A lot of us have seen it actually... It makes very good points overall, but a few key character's acting is kind of shabby, which I don't care too much of though.

Anywho, WELCOME TO ZEE BOARDS!

Yeah...its a pretty cool movie

If you want to further discuss it I suggest you run a search on the movie in this site. You will most likely found at least 5 threads dedicated solely to the topic. You should find plenty of info there...enjoy

Wow... I had no idea this existed lol. I'm gonna see if I can find a copy at the library.

Yep - its like he said, very interesting and thought provoking. But that's as far as it goes.
The animation is irritating, most of the characters suck.

Lets put it this way, my wife had to stop watching after 10 minutes because she was getting seasick from the animation

I actually like the animation, I admit at times it gets to be a tad distracting/annoying, but I thought that was the best way they could have made it, perhaps.

The characters each present a unique point of view, and thought I wasn't as interested in some, I value each one for what they have to say...

This movie is what opened my mind so to speak on LD. It was moving and inspiring. I recomend it to the entire fourm.

Salamnder

I wanna see it, but why is it rated R?

It is? I had no idea...

I don't seem to find any instance that might be inapropiate for teenagers or such. Bullcrap. That is just the system trying to prevent us from philosophising, and actually thinking.

Originally posted by Truthbearer
It is? I had no idea...

I don't seem to find any instance that might be inapropiate for teenagers or such. Bullcrap. That is just the system trying to prevent us from philosophising, and actually thinking.

lol, do you ever think you're exaggerating things just a little too much?

"They are slowly decreasing the amount of millilitres in coke cans and bottles as an attempt to decrease the amount of caffeine we are able to consume while simultaneously, and secretly, secreting nanomachines into the coke bottles and taking our money! The nanomachines find their way to our cortex and make us complusively buy their products over and over again and then, later on, they make us become compulsive about elections and how to feel about certain acts. If you ever get a boner, it's actually because they just want you to and it's because they want you to get a stiffy whenever you hear Bush talk about bombs, so you know, you like to bomb stuff. omg I got a boner! WE'RE ALL DOOMED"

Okay that sucked. Leave me alone.

My current favorite segment from Waking Life:

Originally posted by The guy after the really pissed off guy in prison@ lol
In a way, in our contemporary world view, it's easy to think that science has come to take the place of God. But some philosophical problems remain as troubling as ever. Take the problem of free will. This problem has been around for a long time, since before Aristotle in 350 B.C. St. Augustin, St. Thomas Aquinas, these guys all worried about how we can be free if God already knows in advance everything we're going to do. 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. These laws, because they are so trustworthy, they enable incredible technological achievements. But look at yourself. We're just physical systems too, right? We're just complex arrangements of carbon molecules. We're mostly water. And our behavior isn't going to be an exception to these basic physical laws. So it starts to look like whether its God setting things up in advance, and knowing everything you're going to do, or whether it's these basic physical laws governing everything, there's not a lot of room left for freedom. *

So you might try to just ignore the question, ignore the mystery of free will, and say, oh well, it's just an historical anecdote, it's sophomoric, it's a question with no answer, just forget about it. But the question keeps staring you in the face. Think about individuality for example. Who you are is mostly a matter of the free choices that you make. Or take responsibility. You can only be held responsible, you can only be found guilty, or you can only be admired and respected for things you did of your own free will. So the question keeps coming back. And we don't really have a solution to it. It starts to look like all our decisions are really just a charade. *

Think about how it happens. 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 reach out your arm. It looks like it's a free action on your part, but every part of that process is actually governed by physical laws, chemical laws, electrical laws, and so on. *

So now it starts to look like the big bang set up the initial conditions, and the whole rest of human history, and even before, is really just the playing out of subatomic particles according to these basic fundamental physical laws. We think we're special. We think we have some kind of special dignity, but that now comes under threat. That's really challenged by this picture. *

So you might be saying, well, wait a minute. What about quantum mechanics? I know enough contemporary physical theory to know it's not really like that. It's really a probabilistic theory. There's room. It's loose. It's not deterministic. And that's going to enable us to understand free will. But if you look at the detail, it's not really going to help because what happens is you have some very small quantum particles, and their behavior is apparently a bit random, they sort of swerve, their behavior is absurd in the sense that its unpredictable, and we can't understand it based on anything that came before. It just does something out of the blue according to a probabilistic framework. But is that going to help with freedom? I mean, should our freedom be just a matter of probabilities, just some random swerving in a chaotic system? That starts to seem like it's worse. I'd rather be a gear in a big deterministic physical machine than just some random swerving. *

So we can't just ignore the problem. We have to find room in our contemporary world view for persons with all that that entails. Not just bodies, but persons. That means trying to solve the problem of freedom, finding room for choice and responsibility, and trying to understand individuality.

Originally posted by O'nus+--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(O'nus)</div>

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It is? I had no idea...

I don't seem to find any instance that might be inapropiate for teenagers or such. Bullcrap. That is just the system trying to prevent us from philosophising, and actually thinking.

lol, do you ever think you're exaggerating things just a little too much? [/b]

I did think it was a little over the top, but I didn't feel like explaining it any further. Pretty much what I mean is that there is no reason for it to be rated "R", and in my opinion it is an attempt of preventing young people(those that aren't yet as inmersed into the system to depend on it and conform) from thinking freely about things that can compromise the intergrity of the system...I know it sounds like a whole conspiracy theory, but you'd be amazed how many things are tied to keeping the system intact...

P.S. The free will segment is my 3rd favorite, after the loudspeaker car guy and the four guys lead by adam goldberg...

I think it's restricted because of the occasional bad language, and death scenes...Still just an excuse to keep the system alive though

Originally posted by Awaken
I think it's restricted because of the occasional bad language, and death scenes...Still just an excuse to keep the system alive though

Don't forget the guy in prision, I believe he uses the 'f' word alot and calls people(dunno who) c**ksuckers...oh yea and the guy who pours gasoline all over himself, and lights himself on fire lol

.................................I guess that would be covered under 'occasional bad language' and 'death scenes'

Waking Life was the thing that introduced me to the concept of LD'ing.... Brillinat movie in its own right. I even memorized the conversation the main character has with the director (the guy at the pinball machine)

yea after i saw waking life i joined this forum i think they kinda had to make it animated with a buncha shit goin on so the viewer doesnt get too bored. its a good movie but it kinda feels like youre in a lecture, and if it was just real actors talkin to each other itd get really boring.

Originally posted by smoovD
yea after i saw waking life i joined this forum *i think they kinda had to make it animated with a buncha shit goin on so the viewer doesnt get too bored. *its a good movie but it kinda feels like youre in a lecture, and if it was just real actors talkin to each other itd get really boring.

I didn't see it as much of a lecture as I did a complete perspective-shift on reality. I love the long, intricate dialogue because it's so easy to follow (on mushrooms, haha). I do agree though, that if it were regular actors without the visual stimuli, it wouldn't have NEARLY the effect that it did...

haha i dont even need shrooms to watch that movie, watchin it sober makes you feel like youre trippin, especially the one scene where the main character is walkin down the train station and behind him the hall is movin up and down like a slinky...

YES
That was the trippiest part in the whole movie, I loved it

Shrooms doesn't make it visually more intense, it makes it ideologically more intense...

If you want to make it more intense visually I suggest you use 3d glasses...you can thank me later

haha that prolly would be crazy to watch wit 3d glasses on

Originally posted by Truthbearer
If you want to make it more intense visually I suggest you use 3d glasses...you can thank me later

Geez no! I almost got a headache from it just the way it is.
My wife would have too, if she didnt stop after 10 minutes

I can't see out of my right eye so 3d glasses dont work on me