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n. The reality of the awakened state of consciousness, in contrast to the supposed reality of the dream state.
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Waking Life is a 2001 American adult animated docufiction/ drama film, directed by Richard Linklater. Distributed by Fox Searchlight Pictures, it is the first (and currently only) animated film released by Fox Searchlight Pictures. The film explores a wide range of philosophical issues including the nature of reality, dreams, consciousness, the meaning of life, free will, and existentialism. Waking Life is centered on a young man who wanders through a succession of dream-like realities wherein he encounters a series of individuals who willingly engage in insightful philosophical discussions. Many questions are posed by the film: How can a person distinguish their dream life from their waking life? Do dreams have any sort of hidden significance or purpose?
The film was entirely rotoscoped, although it was shot using digital video of live actors with a team of artists drawing stylized lines and colors over each frame with computers, rather than being filmed and traced onto cells on a light box. The film contains several parallels to Linklater's 1991 film Slacker. Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy reprise their characters from Before Sunrise in one scene. Waking Life premiered at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival.
Waking Life OST is the official soundtrack of the film Waking Life. All tracks except numbers 6 and 9 were composed by Glover Gill and performed by the Tosca Tango Orchestra. Track 6 was originally composed by Fryderyk Chopin and track 9 was composed by Julian Plaza.
Usage examples of "waking life".
Certainly, the great face carven on that mountain was of no strange sort, but the kin of such as he had seen often in the taverns of the seaport Celephais which lies in Ooth-Nargai beyond the Tanarian Hills and is ruled over by that King Kuranes whom Carter once knew in waking life.
This man had vanished at last, and Carter was not sure but that he might find him now, and use for the first time in dreamland that far-away English of his dim waking life.
The last thing I remember in me waking life was walking down the street in the town where I live.
If Lenny ever visited this place in his waking life, then you're the one who would know about it.
I can't enlighten them, but I can certainly show them what waking life is like.
His whole autonomic system is as fully mobilized as it might be in an exciting moment of waking life.
Owing to the bewildering nature of recent events, and also to his determination to stay awake as much as possjble, it was a few days before he connected what was going on to the world behind his eyelids, and only then did he understand that he had to get away, because the universe of his nightmares had begun to leak into his waking life, and if he was not careful he would never manage to begin again, to be reborn with her, through her, Alleluia, who had seen the roof of the world.
For every hour of waking life given to Illvin, the dead body decays a little more.