Waking Life is one of those movies that penetrates the deepest layers of your mind and stays there. The complex plot and themes often feel overwhelming, but satisfyingly so. Not to mention, the visceral and mesmerising animation leaves barely any room for distraction. It's a film to be watched on the big screen, and not just once.

In today's episode, we discuss Linklater's experimental masterpiece, rotoscoping and all. Visual appeal aside, it is also fairly dense in its ideas (as mentioned previously), so it does call for close attention, and we've tried our best to cover everything we found most interesting!

The film touches on existentialism, politics, dreams, death, metaphysics and the nature of reality, to name a few.

We hope you watch the film before listening to the conversation, and also that you reach out with any thoughts you might have! It's a work that's well-worth detailed revisitation.

Mentioned in the episode:

Michio Kaku - Why Physics Ends the Free Will Debate 

Strauss-Howe Generational Theory 

William Strauss and Neil Howe - The Fourth Turning 

Stanford University (Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute) - Can the sleeping brain create unique people that the waking brain has never seen before?