Wandering through filmmaker Richard Linklater’s home of Austin, Texas, the unnamed protagonist (Wiley Wiggins) floats between conversations with pop philosophers and studied existentialists to explore the heady concepts of lucid dreams and the nature of reality. The film’s free-associative nature is enhanced by its cinematic language: the digital rotoscoping of live-action footage by a cadre of artists is a visual trip that, paired with the film’s mind-bending conversations, expands the viewer’s consciousness. In his review, Roger Ebert wrote it was “hard to say how much of Richard Linklater’s Waking Life is a dream. I think all of it is.”