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00:00Life for Marianne had become a cruel punishment.

00:04What would you say you dream about the most?

00:10That's not good.

00:30Everything from the very little to the very big, and even, if you'll hear me out, even dreams, simply all matter in the universe is made of atoms.

01:00And if one wanted to take a dream and make it real, like a keepsake, it would simply require the invention of a machine capable of mapping the atomic structure of a dream, and then rebuild it, atom by atom.

01:16Simply imagine, your greatest dream, held in the palm of your own hand.

01:21Exactly. And to demonstrate how the machine works for our television audience at home, we have joining us internationally acclaimed filmmaker Alua Obi, who will be falling asleep shortly.

01:30Yes, yes. Hello there.

01:32Hello there.

01:33Mr. Obi, backstage you were telling me a phrase about magic. What was that?

01:37Science. It is magic inside of nature.

01:41Precisely. And here is where the magic begins.

01:45Activating sequencing. Brainwave stabilizing.

01:50Once asleep, each and every one of us make the movie we all secretly desire to live.

01:55Here, Mr. Obi will be dreaming a story, but not with light and film.

02:00No, no, no. Instead, with only the absurdity of life without reason, has the director achieved sleep?

02:06The gentleman has entered into REM.

02:09Let's take a closer look, shall we?

02:11Mapping processing.

02:14What appears to be magic is, in fact, modern science manipulating the basic building blocks of the universe.

02:21The most mystical bit of humanity. The dream.

02:25Preserved. Not on some mystical videotape, but via actual reality.

02:36Since her great love's death just months prior, life for Marianne had become a cruel punishment.

02:50And the fact of the matter is, in the same way she could not remember her own birth, there is no explanation for how they met.

02:58Simply put, with Marianne, there was always her Gatsby.

03:03Marianne.

03:06Marianne.

03:07That's me.

03:08What would you say you dream about the most?

03:12I...

03:13Actually don't dream.

03:14So nothing? Or nothingness?

03:17Or what would you want to dream about? Best case scenario?

03:22Floating has always sounded good.

03:24Okay, that's workable. In a boat, or in a balloon, or an astronaut.

03:31What would have been true, was if she had said that her greatest thought, waking or dreaming, was always Gatsby, and his hers.

03:39Not as a pleasure, but as a matter of being. So dreaming to her was the absolute and unnecessary.

03:45Any cheese in the last 24 hours?

03:48No.

03:49What do you see when you see this photo?

03:53Plants.

03:54Interesting.

03:55And lastly, do you live within two blocks of a fire station?

03:59No. Why?

04:01We've had a lot of machines damaged from fire dreams.

04:04What do you do with the dreams people don't want to keep?

04:07Funny enough, we burn them in an incinerator down the hall.

04:11And the new atoms just burn up?

04:13Well, apparently atoms don't burn, except for in instances of nuclear explosions.

04:19But the dreams burn just fine.

04:22Do ghosts have atoms?

04:23If it's in the universe, it's got atoms.

04:26So you set?

04:28What?

04:29Can you hand me my book?

04:30Because all sinners would be miserable in heaven.

04:34Because he's more myself than I am.

04:37Because there's fascination lurking in his eyes.

04:41What a lead.

04:43Hmph, you're telling me.

04:45Now this is a sleep aid.

04:47It's a high dose of melatonin.

04:50Is it unreasonable for the universe to possess everything?

04:59The waves, the stars, our own thoughts are its thoughts, our secrets, even our love?

05:06All forced into its inescapable cosmic weave.

05:11And despite having already stolen all of our accomplishments and passing them off as its own,

05:16The universe, the conniving bastard, damned Marianne and Gatsby to exist only side by side.

05:23The universe has a unified whole, while the rest of us suffer through the agony of being separate.

05:29There he is.

05:34And even though they had spent enough time together that most of her atoms had become his atoms and his hers,

05:41His heart had stopped beating him.

05:45And the score had to be settled.

05:51Hey, you know that cactus photo looked like a penis, right?

05:54Clearly a penis.

05:56But if they knew I was into puns, they'd have flagged me as a high-risk dreamer.

05:59Yeah, very good.

06:01You're in a dream, so you technically won't need this, but...

06:04Here, better safe than sorry.

06:06Rocket ships, parachutes, fancy birds.

06:09Now the dream machine has no issue in recreating these with unflinching objectivity.

06:14It is in the DNA of the machine to do so.

06:19But what of the physical feeling, of yearning, of longing, desire so strong it practically bursts from our hearts

06:28And sets our emotional world ablaze before us?

06:31And what, machine, would you say of hope?

06:39Of a possible new path?

06:43I have to remind myself to breathe.

06:46Almost to remind my heart to beat.

06:48Oh, my darling.

06:49Tell me.

06:50Where do your eyes stop?

06:52And precisely here, with Marianne, the machine is asked a new question.

06:58I'm going to crawl into your eyes now.

07:00And I don't think I'll ever come back out.

07:07How do you recreate the indomitable feeling of wanting to fall into your lover's eyes?

07:15Yes.

07:16Uh-oh.

07:18That's not good.

07:22And so it came to be, inside Marianne's liberated imagination, a black hole was born.

07:29Now what's done is done, and from the old comes the new.

07:41Where Marianne and Gatsby exist as a single beating heart.

07:45One unified love, beating in perfect sequence, with all the stars around them and inside them.

07:53Their love as a brand new universe.

07:57Thanks.

07:58Thanks.

07:59Thanks.

08:01Thanks.

08:04Thanks.

08:07Thanks, Grace!

08:16Thanks.

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