waking life response

this movie is very interesting. graphically and philosophically. almost all of the thinking that are laid through the entire movie are extremely interesting for me. here are just some of them.

“life is yours to create” - “all action basically for survival.” - “so many options, and that’s what life is about.” – this is a very arguable point yet it closely related to who created our life – and it is religion and it involves god. for those who believe in god and put faith in him, then of course, everything has it’s own path and that means god took control over us – and it would oppose the quote. but if something’s bad happened to us – does it mean god wanted us to suffer? i know, there’s always another meaning to it – but literally, is it a nice thing to know that god let us to suffer – and just wait for that bad thing to actually happen to us? god must’ve known in advance of whatever things that might happen to us, and how could my life be mine if – somehow – god has ‘written a story’ about our individual lives? science won’t match with religion. and our life, our body and our mind are only a combination of physical laws. if our lives aren’t as flexible and as ‘surprising’ as it could be, then we have no control over our own lives and there won’t be much freedom to choose what to do with our lives. life is all about possibilities. options are there just to take us into more possibilities and so on – to sort of direct us into a slightly narrower conclusion. decision makings always take place in life. without us being required to decide what to do with our lives, pretty much we’re lifeless. but that leads back to the argument whether we have control over our lives or not.

“words are inert. they’re just symbols.” – sometimes i kept thinking about words. how can we communicate? through language. how do we send our message across? through words and expressions. but where did language comes from? how could i know that that is an apple? how do i speak? how do i know if yes means yes? how can we understand what other is saying?

“maybe i only exist in your mind” - “dreams are real only as long as they last. couldn’t you say the same thing about life?” - “seems like everyone’s sleep-walking through their waking state, or wake-walking through their dreams.” – how can we differ what’s real and what’s not? i’ve had a couple of dreams where it felt so real – i can feel everything – and sometimes they felt too real. but the funny thing is that i felt these ‘reality-ness’ when i’m half asleep – a moment before waking up. and then i started to realise and make known to my mind that that was just a dream. but how could it be so real? and felt so alive? existentialism is a pretty hard topic to write about as we’re talking about ourselves and reality. imagine if life is not real. imagine that this very moment is not real. human minds are created with their own level of imaginations – is it possible that we’re just creating stuff up? maybe we’re all hallucinating even though we had enough sleep every night. i’ve met quite lot of people throughout my life – and every time i met someone new, i felt that i’ve met that person long time ago – or simply their face looks familiar. has this have anything to do with human genes? the fact that we came from the same ancestors and the inherited genes are actually swirling around in circles that i’ve just now met someone that looks like someone that i’ve met months or years ago? or are they just not real? or could my eyes be creating all these tricks?