Concept
Waking Life
Overview
2001 film directed by Richard Linklater
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The analogy in waking life is only to be preferred to that in dreams on the ground of its greater extent and consistency. If a man were to dream every night about a set of people whom he never met by day, who had consistent characters and grew older with the lapse of years, he might, like the man in Calderon's play, find it difficult to…
Bertrand Russell, Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy
States what Waking Life is; names Waking Life several times.
But we have also heard the opposite of the above assertion, viz. that the dream takes the sleeper away from the interests of the day, and that in most cases we do not dream of things that have occupied our attention during the day until after they have lost for the waking life the stimulus of actuality. Hence in the analysis of the dream life we are reminded at every step that it is inadmissible to frame general…
Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams
Names Waking Life several times; opens on Waking Life.
All adaptation to environment acquired during the life of the individual might be regarded as learning to dream dreams that succeed rather than dreams that fail. The dreams we have when we are asleep usually end in a surprise: the dreams we have in waking life are less apt to do so. Sometimes they do, as when pride goes before a fall; but in that case they are regarded as showing maladjustment, unless there is some…
Bertrand Russell, Philosophy
States what Waking Life is; names Waking Life.
Philosophers who discussed Waking Life
Related ideas
- Philosophy
- Metaphysics
- Meaning of life
- Surrealism
- The New York Times
- Existential crisis
- Reality
- Dream
- Free will
- Consciousness
- Social philosophy
- Existentialism
- Robert C. Solomon
- Posthuman
- André Bazin
- Richard Linklater
Place in the tradition
Part of Existentialism.