WAKING LIFE -- ILLUSTRATED SCREENPLAY & SCREENCAP GALLERY

You know they say that there's still six to twelve minutes of brain activity after everything else is shut down. And a second of dream consciousness, right, well, that's infinitely longer than a waking second.  You know what I'm saying?

[Julie Delpy] Oh, yeah, definitely. For example I wake up and it's 10:12, and then I go back to sleep and I have those long, intricate, beautiful dreams that seem to last for hours, and then I wake up and it's ... 10:13.

[Ethan Hawke] Yeah, exactly. So then 6-12 minutes of brain activity, I mean, that could be your whole life. I mean, you are that woman looking back over everything.

[Julie Delpy] Okay, so what if I am? Then what would you be in all that?

[Ethan Hawke] Whatever I am right now. I mean, yeah, maybe I only exist in your mind.  I'm still just as real as anything else.

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