Waking Life
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beautiful dreams
that seem to last for hours,

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and then I wake up
and it's... 1 0:1 3.

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Exactly. So then 6 to 1 2 minutes
of brain activity,

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I mean, that could be
your whole life.

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I mean, you are that woman
looking back over everything.

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Okay, so what if I am?
Then what would you be in all that?

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Whatever I am
right now.

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I mean, yeah,
maybe I only exist in your mind.

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I'm still just as real
as anything else.

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Yeah.
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- I've been thinking also
about something you said.
- What's that?

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Just about reincarnation and where all
the new souls come from over time.

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Everybody always say
that they've been the reincarnation...

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of Cleopatra
or Alexander the Great.

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I always want
to tell them they were probably
some dumb fuck like everybody else.

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I mean, it's impossible.
Think about it.

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The world population has doubled
in the past 40 years, right?

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- So if you really believe in that
ego thing of one eternal soul,
- Mm-hmm.

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then you only have a 50% chance
of your soul being over 40.

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And for it to be over 1 50 years old,
then it's only one out of six.

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So what are you saying then?
Reincarnation doesn't exist...

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or that we're all young souls like where
half of us are first-round humans?

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No, no. What I'm trying to say
is that somehow I believe...

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reincarnation is just a--
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a poetic expression of what
collective memory really is.

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There was this article by this
biochemist that I read not long ago,

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and he was talking about how when
a member of a species is born,

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it has a billion years
of memory to draw on.

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And this is where
we inherit our instincts.

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I like that.
It's like there's, um,

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this whole telepathic thing going on
that we’re all a part of,

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whether we’re
conscious of it or not.


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