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Jun. 24th, 2004 09:07 pmI watched Waking Life earlier today. My Netflix queue is usually in a state where I have very little idea what is coming. I generally keep 70 or so movies in it and I add them for zillions of reasons. Often I will get something and have no idea why I rented it or what it is. When Waking Life showed up, the name seemed familiar so I imdb'ed it and knew who the director was. People seemed to like it so I popped it in the iBook and started it up. It was captivating and fantastic. I am going to have to buy a copy of it.
Part of my amusement with it probably stems from the fact that I've been thinking a lot about dreams recently. I've always had vibrant bizarre dreams that often stick with me for days, even as a kid. I learned early on in life how to wake myself up from nightmares when they got too bad to cope with or how to change them entirely. I've never gotten the grasp of controlling content though. Just last week I had a dream where someone I know did something so out of character for them that I was instantly aware that it was a dream and I 'changed the channel' so to speak.
My mom has always insisted that my dreams were spiritual, that they were some way that God used to speak to me. I don't hold any real theories about what my dreams mean or where they come from. I'm glad that I have them even though they have often caused me grief (one actually scared me so badly that I started going to counseling, which in turn scared me for real). I've had serial dreams (like a tv show) that went on for years and years, I've had thematic dreams about houses of various sorts for a long time now, I have dreams that make no sense at all, I often dream that I am someone else that I know, I never fly, I often fall, many of my dreams involve touching.
Anyway, I think that movie hopped into my life at its proper time. Had I seen it when it came out, I think it would not have made nearly the impression that it did. Timing is such an amusing little force (?).
Part of my amusement with it probably stems from the fact that I've been thinking a lot about dreams recently. I've always had vibrant bizarre dreams that often stick with me for days, even as a kid. I learned early on in life how to wake myself up from nightmares when they got too bad to cope with or how to change them entirely. I've never gotten the grasp of controlling content though. Just last week I had a dream where someone I know did something so out of character for them that I was instantly aware that it was a dream and I 'changed the channel' so to speak.
My mom has always insisted that my dreams were spiritual, that they were some way that God used to speak to me. I don't hold any real theories about what my dreams mean or where they come from. I'm glad that I have them even though they have often caused me grief (one actually scared me so badly that I started going to counseling, which in turn scared me for real). I've had serial dreams (like a tv show) that went on for years and years, I've had thematic dreams about houses of various sorts for a long time now, I have dreams that make no sense at all, I often dream that I am someone else that I know, I never fly, I often fall, many of my dreams involve touching.
Anyway, I think that movie hopped into my life at its proper time. Had I seen it when it came out, I think it would not have made nearly the impression that it did. Timing is such an amusing little force (?).
