Waking Life
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1:26:00
I'm not saying you don't know
what you're talking about,

1:26:03
but I don't know
what you're talking about.

1:26:05
No, see, you guys let me off
at this really specific spot...

1:26:08
that you gave him directions
to let me off at.

1:26:11
I get out and ended up
getting hit by a car.

1:26:13
But then I just woke up
because I was dreaming,

1:26:16
and later, I found out
that I was still dreaming,

1:26:19
dreaming
that I'd woken up.

1:26:22
Those are called "false awakenings."
I used to have those all the time.

1:26:25
But I'm still in it now.
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I can't get out of it.
It's been going on forever.

1:26:30
I keep waking up, but I'm just
waking up into another dream.

1:26:35
I'm starting to get creeped out too,
like I'm talking to dead people.

1:26:39
This woman on TV's telling me
about how death is this dream time...

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that exists outside of life.
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I mean, I'm starting
to think that I'm dead.

1:26:52
I'm gonna tell you
about a dream I once had.

1:26:55
I know that when
someone says that,

1:26:57
usually you’re in for a very boring
next few minutes, and you might be.

1:27:00
But it sounds like--
What else are you gonna do, right?

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Anyway, I read this essay
by Philip K.. Dick.

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What, you read it
in your dream?

1:27:08
No, no. I read it
before the dream.

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It was the preamble
to the dream.

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It was about that book,
Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said.

1:27:16
- You know that one?
- Yeah, yeah. He won
an award for that one.

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Right. That's the one
he wrote really fast.

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It just, like, flowed
right out of him.

1:27:24
He felt he was sort
of channeling it or something.

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But anyway, about four years
after it was published,

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he was at this party
and he met this woman...

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who had the same name
as the woman character in the book.

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And she had a boyfriend with
the same name as the boyfriend
character in the book.

1:27:38
and she was having an affair
with this guy, the chief of police.

1:27:41
And he had the same name
as the chief of police in his book.

1:27:45
So she's telling him
all this stuff from her life,

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and everything she's saying
is right out of his book.

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So that's really freaking him out,
but what can he do?

1:27:53
And shortly after that,
he was going to mail a letter,

1:27:56
and he saw this kind of, um, dangerous,
shady-looking guy standing by his car.


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