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Jamaica magician and his speech about dream/reality correspondence


Random but memorable scene to me. That Jamaica magician and his speech about dream/reality correspondence really got me.

Get me wondering about it for a sometime after movie finished and it's not the 1st time I read or heard about this phenomena.. but this movie and the scene acted by Tai Bennett (Robert Marley) is very well done and the atmosphere he created in that moment really unique, fancinating and memorable.

Don't know if anyone around here have the same feeling.

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Yeah that was pretty cool.
Weird movie but enjoyable :-)

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it was funny because i was thinking about that earlier in the day before i watched the movie. synchronicity is wild sometimes

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I've got a Youtube video of this scene. Take a look. Enjoy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYvYMaWIsro (youtube.com/watch?v=JYvYMaWIsro)
The video includes 2 subtitle languages.

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That scene was my favorite and probably the most memorable for me.

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You'll probably die if you watch 'Waking Life' - 90 minutes straight of people having those conversations.

Avoid going to any college stoner's dorm too.

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I had take a look, but unlikely. You just said so, I don't think it has got this kinda atmosphere.

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This scene (along with a few others) are like hidden gems within the movie. Without them it would have been just another crazy odd movie that you could laugh and trip to, but there's deep layers to this movie which cater to anyone with a mind.

Infact the whole movie really IS like a dream; on its surface we brush it off as nonsense, but if you're willing to take a closer look you find that it isn't all that simple... there are questions that need to be asked but utlimately they are quite unexplainable unless you are willing to accept certain answers that do not fit within your waking world.

The Jamaican covered just one dream phenomenon (of not expecting something that your own mind has already pre-planned).

Let's say you invent something that you saw in your dream. Is it really your invention or did it come from some other place?

I couldn't write a book to save my life, but who are all these characters in my dream who are clearly not anything like me?

Why are we sometimes not in our dreams at all but just watch them like a movie? Other times we have abilities which we obviously do not have in real life, and yet no matter what happens we completely accept it as real? If a dog so much as said "hello" to you in real life you would completely lose it!

Many people feel that the source of their Deja Vu is from a recent dream they had. Well if that's the case, I don't have to tell you the implication there.

These are just a few of the mysteries regarding dreams. The entire movie does an excellent job putting these ideas out in an entertaining way.

-"But you know what's on my mind right now? It AIN'T the coffee in my kitchen..."

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