Name: Thought vs Reality
Uploaded: 2021-01-21T04:04:41.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Thought vs Reality' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-01-21. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Thought vs Reality' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-01-21. Transcript available.

I don't consider myself an awake person, but I do consider myself recently
curious and thoroughly amazed by kind of just my own ability to have something
different than I thought the world was.
And it's so scary to realize that there's more out there than this very
specific world that I created and that I needed a lot of times for survival.
You know, growing up, if you grew up in a tough environment or an environment
where there's not a lot of feelings and love, then you'll create whatever you
have to, whatever checks and balances make sense for you for survival.
Yeah, that's right.
But to get out of that now and like, yeah, it's like you kind of push and you're
like, oh, fuck, a board fell off this back wall.
I'm like, what's out here?
Yeah.
And you reach out there and like the air feels different and you're like, fuck,
dude.
Yeah.
I'm going to sleep tonight, but tomorrow I'll look out there.
Yes.
That's cool.
How does somebody start to kind of do that?
Most people are living in these two lives.
Yes.
The thought realm and this world.
And most of us are getting jerked back and forth between those two.
And we don't even realize it.
You don't even realize that.
I mean, if you want to think of something really fucked up and really a true
mind fuck, you don't remember much that you do.
The odds are you're living in a forgotten memory.
You're walking through a memory that you won't ever remember again.
Yeah.
When you really look back into the past and contemplate your life, it's not
some continuous, like, it's not like you're watching a DVD.
Yeah.
It's like 70 or 80 blurbs.
Yeah.
This shit merges together and it kind of fades in and out.
And there's these clear moments where you look back at it.
But even that has this kind of wavering quality to it.
So when you realize, like, oh, shit, like, I'm not even going to, I'm not going
to remember the Chipotle I had six months ago.
Right.
I mean, do you eat Chipotle?
Mm-mm.
Well, you definitely don't remember it.
But, like, what's a, what's a, what's like a, what's.
Yeah.
You just made me think I had some guavas a couple years ago that I fucking
never would have thought about.
There you go.
You didn't mention this.
The guavas or whatever.
I don't know, man.
Think, like, I guarantee a decade ago.
Oh, yeah, I had raisins probably.
I had a lot more turkey sandwiches.
I'm going to guess a decade ago that you had a really nice meal.
Yeah.
I mean, it was fucking good.
And it was maybe expensive.
Yeah.
And you maybe were on a date or something.
I don't know.
Yeah.
And you were sitting there eating it thinking, like, this is so fucking good.
And you don't remember it now.
Right.
It's gone.
It's gone.
It's gone.
It's gone.
It's gone.
So this is the thing.
When you begin to realize, like, oh, most of the time, I'm not even here at all.
I'm up in my head.
Wow.
While I'm eating that meal, I'm thinking about something that happened to me as
a kid.
Or I'm worrying that this girl thinks I'm a dick.
Yeah.
Or I'm concerned over how much it's going to cost.
Or I'm beating myself up for eating out.
And so I'm not even eating the meal.
You know, that's the thing.
So through that, you start realizing, like, oh, fuck, look at this crazy way
humans live.
Yeah.
When you start to become aware that your thoughts.
Yeah.
We're like, we're kind of like whales.
We breach into this reality.
And we come into the moment.
And we're here.
And then we go back down into our thoughts.
Yeah.
And we swim in those waters of our consciousness.
And then we breach again.
Yeah.
And then we go back down.
And that rhythm kind of makes up a human life.
So it's interesting to start becoming aware of that's actually what you're
doing.
I'm just sitting on your front porch wondering how could I be so far from my
home.
And my mind is somewhere else.
But when I find it, I'll patch up where it's been blown.