WAKING LIFE -- ILLUSTRATED SCREENPLAY & SCREENCAP GALLERY

[Wiley Wiggins] Oh, a lot of people.  A lot of talking. You know, some of it was kind of absurdist, like from a strange movie or something.  Mostly, it was just people going off about whatever, really intensely. I woke up wondering where did all this stuff come from?

[Man] You can control that you know.

[Wiley Wiggins] Do you have these dreams all the time?

[Man] Hell, yeah. I'm always gonna make the best of it. But the trick is, you got to realize that you're dreaming in the first place. You got to be able to recognize it. You got to be able to ask yourself, "Hey man, is this a dream?" See, most people never ask themselves that when they're awake, or especially when they're asleep. Seems like everyone's sleepwalking through their waking state, or wakewalking through their dreams. Either way, they're not gonna get much out of it.

[Wiley Wiggins] The thing that snapped me into realizing I was dreaming was, uh -- was my digital clock.  I couldn't really read it. It was like the circuitry was all screwed up or something.

[Man] Yeah, that's real common. And small printed material is pretty tough too. Very unstable.

Another good tip-off is trying to adjust light levels. You can't really do that. If you see a light switch nearby, turn it on and off and see if it works. That's one of the few things you can't do in a lucid dream. But what the hell. I can fly around, have an interesting conversation with Albert Schweitzer.  I can explore all these new dimensions of reality, not to mention I can have any kind of sex I want, which is way cool. So I can't adjust light levels. So what?

[Wiley Wiggins] But that's like one of the things that you do to test if you're dreaming or not, right?

[Man] Yeah, like I said, you can totally train yourself to recognize it.  I mean, just hit a light switch every now and then. If the lights are on, and you can't turn them off, then most likely you're dreaming. And then you can get down to business. And believe me, it's unlimited. Hey, you know what I've been working on lately?

[Wiley Wiggins] What's that?

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