Waking Life
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:20:01
Let my own lack of a voice
be heard.

:21:09
I keep thinking about
something you said.

:21:12
- Something I said?
- Yeah.

:21:15
About how you often feel like
you're observing your life...

:21:18
from the perspective of an old woman
about to die.

:21:21
- You remember that?
- Yeah. I still feel
that way sometimes.

:21:26
Like I'm looking back
on my life.

:21:29
Like my waking life
is her memories.

:21:31
Exactly.
:21:34
I heard that Tim Leary
said as he was dying...

:21:37
that he was looking forward
to the moment...

:21:40
when his body was dead,
but his brain was still alive.

:21:43
They say that there's still 6
to 12 minutes of brain activity
after everything is shut down.

:21:49
And a second of dream
consciousness, right,

:21:51
well, that's infinitely longer
than a waking second.

:21:54
- You know what I'm saying?
- Oh, yeah, definitely.

:21:56
For example, I wake up
and it's 1 0:1 2,

:21:59
and then I go back to sleep
and I have those long, intricate,


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