:50:01
that the whole day at work
had been a dream.
:50:10
It's bad enough that you sell your
waking life for-- for minimum wage,
:50:16
but now they get
your dreams for free.
:50:21
Hey, man,
what are you doing here?
:50:23
I fancy myself the social lubricator
of the dream world,
:50:28
helping people become lucid
a little easier.
:50:31
Cut out all that fear and anxiety
stuff and just rock and roll.
:50:35
By becoming lucid, you mean just knowing
that youre dreaming, right?
:50:38
Yeah. And then
you can control it.
:50:40
They're more realistic and less
bizarre than non-lucid dreams.
:50:43
You know,
I just woke from a dream.
:50:47
It wasn't like a typical dream.
It seemed more like I'd walked
into an alternate universe.
:50:50
Yeah, it's real.
:50:52
I mean, technically,
it's a phenomenon of sleep,
:50:55
but you can have
so much damn fun in your dreams.
:50:58
And, of course,
everyone knows fun rules.
:51:01
- Yeah.
-So what was going on in your dream?
:51:04
Oh. A lot of people.
A lot of talking.
:51:07
Some of it was kind of absurdist,
like from a strange movie or something.
:51:11
Mostly, it was just people going off
about whatever, really intensely.
:51:14
I woke up wondering, where did
all this stuff come from?
:51:17
- You can control that.
- Do you have
these dreams all the time?
:51:22
Hell, yeah. I'm always
gonna make the best of it.
:51:24
But the trick is, you got to realize
that you're dreaming in the first place.
:51:28
You got to be able
to recognize it.
:51:30
You got to be able to ask yourself,
" Hey, man, is this a dream?"
:51:34
Most people never
ask themselves that...
:51:36
when they're awake or especially
when they're asleep.
:51:39
Seems like everyone's sleepwalking
through their waking state...
:51:42
or wake walking
through their dreams.
:51:44
Either way they're not
gonna get much out of it.
:51:47
The thing that snapped me
into realizing I was dreaming
was, uh-- was my digital clock.
:51:51
I couldn't really read it.
It was like the circuitry
was all screwed up or something.
:51:55
Yeah, that's real common. And small
printed material is pretty tough too.
:51:59
Very unstable.