Waking Life Script with Revisions

Description: Script of the movie Waking Life, based on Tara Carreon's transcription, but with revisions based upon a viewing of the DVD version of the movie, which was watched with subtitles.

Revisions by James Richard Skemp III
Revision begun: December 24 2004

Modified: June 4 2005; June 15 2005; June 16 2005; June 21 2005; July 22 2005; August 25 2005; September 27 2005; October 17 2005; October 21 2005; May 25, 2006; August 20, 2006; January 27, 2007

Notes: Special thanks to Andrew, Larry Redden, Ed Sandberg, and Mark W for pointing out errors in Tara's transcription (numerous errors were fixed here, along with some scene information clarifications). Absolutely let me know if anything slipped by my look-over, especially in the quicker and the 'like, like, you know,' sections ;)

Please note that these chapters do contain small images from the film. For the sake of all users, images have been limited to no more than two per chapter.

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Table of Contents (based on Waking Life DVD scene chapters)

  1. Dream is Destiny 1
  2. Anchors Aweigh 1
  3. Life Lessons 2
  4. Alienation 2
  5. Death and Reality 1
  6. Free Will and Physics 2
  7. The Aging Paradox 2
  8. Noise & Silence 2
  9. What's the Story? 2
  10. Dreams 1
  11. The Holy Moment 2
    Read my thoughts and share your own
  12. Society Is a Fraud 1
  13. Dreamers 1
  14. Ants 1
  15. We Are the Authors 2
  16. Meet Yourself 1
  17. Performance 1
  18. Trapped in a Dream 1
  19. Wake Up! 1
  20. End Titles (not included here)

1 Last reviewed October 2005.

2 Addition of character's names in May 2006.

Image(s) added November 2006 and January 2007. Minor changes (scene information explanations were expanded in select chapters) also in January 2007.

If you notice any problems with the movie's transcript, please just let me know. Also, if you have any comments or thoughts that you'd like to share on a particular portion of the movie (or the movie in general), please don't hesitate to share them with the public via the comment system, or send them privately to strivinglife [at] gmail [dot] com.

Images used on individual script pages are copyright their respective owners. Select images are displayed here for informational and educational purposes only. See more of the film by purchasing a copy for yourself, or renting the movie from your local video store(s).

Learn how to display this transcript on your blog or site. It's easy!

For the sake of version control and in the interest of not having multiple versions floating about the Internet, please link to the pages on this site or use the code detailed above instead of copying the script elsewhere. Using short blurbs of a sentence or two is perfectly fine. Thank you :)

Can you help? Ryan C. asks for movies in a vein similar to Ghost in the Shell 2 and Waking Life). He suggests Mindwalk and My Dinner With Andre as two such movies. Can you, readers, recommend any other movies like these?

How about books? Simon K. asks for suggestions of both books and movies similar to Waking Life.