The Illusory Nature of Linear Time

[I would like to start off this post by congratulating my fellow classmates. I read through these posts searching for what to write about and could only think about how good they were. Each brought about a very important topic and point of view that truly made me think and delight in the connections we can make between other things we learned about in class. If anything, you guys have taught me new ways to think, and I am duly impressed by all of you!]

Ever since I watched Inception, everything seems to connect back to it. The light switch and digital clocks were the protagonist's version of Cobb's top. How many layers of dreams did our little protagonist go through-it must be a record!

To us Westerners, time is linear, which makes it super difficult to understand the indigenous perspective of cyclical time. Through ritual, the aborigines can connect to this transcendent time, this all time and no time, all at the same time. I would like to reference a short story I Stumbled upon on the internet: "The Egg" by Andy Weir. In it a man has died, and confronts God with questions. The man asks if he is being sent back in time, and God answers that time is completely made up, and works very differently to gods. The man is constantly reincarnated as every being on Earth there ever was or will be. The entire universe was made for the human to grow and develop. It is an egg, made for the human to mature until she/he/it can become a god as well.
In Waking Life, there is the same concept that time is illusory and we are only existing in "this instant". Time is, again, a postponing of our "real" life, our invitation to join God. And isn't that the same as Dreamtime, which was not just a notion of the Australian aborigines, but also of many other indigenous people, like the Scandinavian Sámi (my research paper topic)? Dreamtime may be called so, because in our dreams we are also able to connect to that transcendent state.
And that is the point of Waking Life. The protagonist is finding his own philosophy through his dreams, examining the realities of life and time in his own Dreamtime, his effort to connect to God. It is perpetuating because of his lack of readiness to join that world just yet. First he needs to search inside himself, do some organizing of sensory information (one theory of dreaming we've learned in psychology) and prepare himself for what is ahead.