When you wake up - it's just embarrassing!

[tootrue]

Oh man,
How embarrassing it is, when you have eaten a raw potato, thinking it was an apple!

How embarrassing - when you are chased by a grizzly bear, and you scream up for help..., just before you wake up

How, embarrassing when:

You are threatened by the bank
You are scared for your career
You think your clothes are not good enough

and you think you're too old, and you're just too late to do it


and you think you would not survive

and you'd die...

And you took it so serious...
Trust me – when you woke up you’d be just embarrassed ;)

http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=737024360434872932&q=life+is+a+dream&total=13321&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=2

[helloperator]

How embarrasing when you think you've woken up only to look up and see the desert stretching on as far as the eye can see.

nb...I'm referring to myself

[lisaw]

i love raw potatoes, am i weird?

[resistance]

i love raw potatoes, am i weird?

I thought raw potatoe was toxic? well at least in fair amounts anyway.

[baron von lotsov]

I woke up when I was five years old. I remember it clearly, the first day at school where they forced you to to all stand in line and wanted to act like monkeys. We had this school where two at a time the boys could do a woodworking class and they would pick each two based on how enthusiastic they were and who could put their hands up the fastest. Each few days the same routine would occur, who wants to be next, but even though I loved to make things out of wood I didn't put my hand up as I reasoned they would get around to me eventually and I was not bothered whether I'd be in the first two or the last two, so I did not see any point in competing for a race without any prize.

The teacher looked at me in disappointment and asked why I was not interested. I said I was just as interested but since they had promised everyone would get their turn it was not necessary to be one of the first ones. This was my very first act of not conforming to the system and I wondered why they were more interested in getting us enthusiastic and to follow everyone else. I kept thinking about this through my first year in prison. I knew it was a prison even then and would never trust anything the teachers said without some proof. I never accepted anything on trust, I always asked the reasons why and often in front of the entire class. Eventually the rest of the class got used to always questioning everything the teacher announced. Most teachers said it was the most difficult class they had ever taught.

[matrixcutter]

I woke up when I was five years old. I remember it clearly, the first day at school where they forced you to to all stand in line and wanted to act like monkeys. We had this school where two at a time the boys could do a woodworking class and they would pick each two based on how enthusiastic they were and who could put their hands up the fastest. Each few days the same routine would occur, who wants to be next, but even though I loved to make things out of wood I didn't put my hand up as I reasoned they would get around to me eventually and I was not bothered whether I'd be in the first two or the last two, so I did not see any point in competing for a race without any prize.

The teacher looked at me in disappointment and asked why I was not interested. I said I was just as interested but since they had promised everyone would get their turn it was not necessary to be one of the first ones. This was my very first act of not conforming to the system and I wondered why they were more interested in getting us enthusiastic and to follow everyone else. I kept thinking about this through my first year in prison. I knew it was a prison even then and would never trust anything the teachers said without some proof. I never accepted anything on trust, I always asked the reasons why and often in front of the entire class. Eventually the rest of the class got used to always questioning everything the teacher announced. Most teachers said it was the most difficult class they had ever taught.
I remember when I was about 5 watching everybody raising their hands and desperately trying to get the teacher to ask them to answer the questions everybody knew the answer to, and thinking "what's wrong with you weirdos?"
But I can't claim that I woke up at 5. I think it was a very gradual process for me (probably hindered by drugs) which started massively accelerating when I was about 19, then again after 9/11, and then again after I discovered Alan Watt (cuttingthroughthematrix.com) and it just keeps on going now.

[tootrue]

How embarrasing when you think you've woken up only to look up and see the desert stretching on as far as the eye can see.

nb...I'm referring to myself

It is hard get out of a box, when you are hypnotised, as basicaly we are all:o

But it is just as hard to stay out of all possible boxes! I seem to find myselfgoing back to boxes... although they don't want me there, any more. I mess up all possible order! I dont care too much, these days!

[baron von lotsov]

I remember when I was about 5 watching everybody raising their hands and desperately trying to get the teacher to ask them to answer the questions everybody knew the answer to, and thinking "what's wrong with you weirdos?"
But I can't claim that I woke up at 5. I think it was a very gradual process for me (probably hindered by drugs) which started massively accelerating when I was about 19, then again after 9/11, and then again after I discovered Alan Watt (cuttingthroughthematrix.com) and it just keeps on going now.
The weird thing about me is I have always been the same, right from my earliest memories I have always had an intuitive sense of when people are lying to me or when something is dodgy. So they have never been able to do it to me. There have been occasions where I have thought that, like an experiment, I'd try something out just to see what it was about and at the most kind of half fooled. I mean like if you saw something in the shops that you thought you liked but were still hesitant enough not to make the transaction. I did that at school and I went to university because I was prepared to give it a go, thinking if it were dodgy then I'd pull through it. It did turn out to be dodgy in the end, I was at most about 20% taken in by it but ultimately I knew in the end to get out of the place while still in one piece. In retrospect this learning experience has been valuable to me but I have always stopped short of using my skills to help a crooked system.

[matrixcutter]

I think the best way to sum up my "journey", is that I was an intelligent idiot for most of the first 20 years of it. Then I started to see how stupid I had been, and how wrong I had been about so many things, and how wrong most people continue to be about the same things.

Baron, I suspect you have a lot of good tips for nudging those who are still asleep in the right direction. Unfortunately, to me, it seems that occassionally you also seem to encourage a belief in the unrealistic e.g. Ron Paul will save the world, presumably in an attempt to promote (false, IMO) optimism.

Any thoughts?

[tootrue]

Any thoughts?

very frequently, your thoughts go hand in hand with yoour fears
:(

[weareinfinitelove]

It is hard get out of a box, when you are hypnotised, as basicaly we are all:o

we are LITERALLY hypnotised.

[helloperator]

Is it just me? I am extremely distrustful of anyone who says they have woken up. To me, waking up would virtually destroy a person. You can wake up to 911, and elite world rulers and what not...but that's kind of tinker toy stuff compared to how I imagine a true awakening. So, if you've woken up...what exactly do you mean?

[cruise4]

There are levels to this waking up. Realising most of what you know is a lie and what you considered lies has much truth is one 'waking up'. If there's an internal waking up to be had.... thats the big one. I know of no others.

[baron von lotsov]

I think the best way to sum up my "journey", is that I was an intelligent idiot for most of the first 20 years of it. Then I started to see how stupid I had been, and how wrong I had been about so many things, and how wrong most people continue to be about the same things.

Baron, I suspect you have a lot of good tips for nudging those who are still asleep in the right direction. Unfortunately, to me, it seems that occassionally you also seem to encourage a belief in the unrealistic e.g. Ron Paul will save the world, presumably in an attempt to promote (false, IMO) optimism.

Any thoughts?

I am an optimist generally. I'd never have attempted half of what I have done without thinking I can do it. I push myself extremely hard to achieve it, whatever it may be. It's the 'can-do' attitude and that is all. If I were worried I'd say so and if I though we could do it, I'd stop worrying and get on with the job. Sitting idle is the most worrying thing for me, if I'm not engaged then it bugs me.

One thing about me though is I never try and fake anything or promote something that I knew was false. Ron Paul has proved to be a good one so far. A while back Cameron was looking OK but he blew it for the second time recently and I have been posting stuff attacking him. So if I ever found Ron Paul to be working for the system I'd be the first to say so but I have no evidence what so ever to say this and that is why I'm optimistic, and extremely so, in what I have seen recently.

[crazed]

I woke up when I was five years old. I remember it clearly, the first day at school where they forced you to to all stand in line and wanted to act like monkeys. We had this school where two at a time the boys could do a woodworking class and they would pick each two based on how enthusiastic they were and who could put their hands up the fastest. Each few days the same routine would occur, who wants to be next, but even though I loved to make things out of wood I didn't put my hand up as I reasoned they would get around to me eventually and I was not bothered whether I'd be in the first two or the last two, so I did not see any point in competing for a race without any prize.

The teacher looked at me in disappointment and asked why I was not interested. I said I was just as interested but since they had promised everyone would get their turn it was not necessary to be one of the first ones. This was my very first act of not conforming to the system and I wondered why they were more interested in getting us enthusiastic and to follow everyone else. I kept thinking about this through my first year in prison. I knew it was a prison even then and would never trust anything the teachers said without some proof. I never accepted anything on trust, I always asked the reasons why and often in front of the entire class. Eventually the rest of the class got used to always questioning everything the teacher announced. Most teachers said it was the most difficult class they had ever taught.


Hehe, man I'm in university now, and its the exact opposite. The prof asks a question and even though a lot of people know the answer, no one says anything or puts up their hand. I think somehow we are programmed not to stand out but to follow the herd.