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WAKING LIFE -- ILLUSTRATED SCREENPLAY & SCREENCAP GALLERY |
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[Wiley Wiggins] Hey, how's it going?
[Man] You know, they say that dreams are real only as long as they last.
Can't you say the same thing about life? See, there's a lot of us that are out there mapping the mind/body relationships of dreams.
We're called "oneironauts." We're the explorers of the dream world. Really, it's just about the two opposing states of consciousness which don't really oppose at all. See, in the waking world, the neuro-system inhibits the activation of the vividness of memories. And this makes evolutionary sense. It'd be maladapted for the perceptual image of a predator to be mistaken for the memory of one, and vice-versa. If the memory of a predator conjured up a perceptual image, we'd be running off to the bathroom every time we had a scary thought.
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