## Thoughts ### Per Episodes #### EP1 - if you stay in a place like this you might not be able to connect - only given up body - connect to each other - phil - i think therefore i am - dualist - modern day, consciousness is a product of physical brain - no distinction between mind and body - what is it like to be a bat - we will never know the subjective experience of being a bat - minds and machines #### EP2 - Accela drug - time-sense, awareness is accelerated - brain, conscious - accused of going to club - high tech - men in black - ghost passing through - socializing vs interconnectedness in the web - still very herself, introverted - lain looks like dealer - wired can't interfere with real world - no matter where you go, everyone's connected - killed himself #### EP3 - Why so paranoid - assumption that white is wired - escapes to wired world during encounters - psyche can increase navi encounters - got psyche chip in school - so there is an alter ego lain wired self - real life is blending into the wired #### EP4 - parents are not connected her - mans scared over a girl - starting to hear news from navi - scarily happy - bump into her - STACKED NAVI - she's become the pursuer? - game is morphed with reality? - killed someone ingame IRL? - lain was overseeing? - phantoma fighting game - interconnected with kindergarten tag - wired is just form of communication, by dad - boundary isn't clear - Knights, a religion - Interconnected with everything - bare hands to kill girl - destroying gadgets - intruder interrupted #### EP5 - God, humans are worthless - prophecy, event - hacking into tech - wired upper layer - reality is a hologram - brain, electrical impulses, body - older sister hallucinating? fulfill the prophecy - in the real world, god is a concept, but is there am embodiment in the digital world - older sister sees herself #### EP6 - that stare by her when dad came in… - thanks knights - loneliness - she goes to see them - keeping sites a secret - lain in the sky, people praising her - old mental ward child killer - Psi, good intuition - KIDS enhanced part of brain, combined all psi energy - lain incredibly powerful - room blew up, black men said knights did it #### EP7 - no border between wired and real - lain in wired is becoming less like her - sister speaking gibberish - different people - apple vision pro, fat neckbeard - men in black ask for her, fix pc - prevent contact with knights - questions if nuclear parents are theirs - lain has no sense of self - switched midway, doesn't give two fucks - burned pc - knights logo, girl is part of knights #### EP8 - parents literally aren't moving, robotic in movement - sister sobbing - everyone's just staring at her - merely a hologram of the main lain in the wired - she's genuinely surprised - TEACHER AND STUDENT - arisu imagining it - lain peeping tom - sharing rumors and secrets of everyone - confronting other lain - acting like part of me that i hate - separate self? - so many versions of lain - omnipresent, always everywhere - feature of god - finally told people that they were always being watched - if i'm aware of myself, my true self is inside me - deleted memories of people seeing her - seeing a different version of herself, became observer - what is the self? - **different selves everywhere** - last question is, i'm me… - at what point do we become god-like #### EP9 - believe in god to be free of suffering - always by your side - don't remember when she asked about the psyche? - Knows taro is with knights? - psychological manipulation - parents, almost over, so now should - sister mentally insane - found in memory, being escorted into house - earth would turn into a neuron network, just like neurons in brain - only one truth - god - wireless network, #### EP10 - Seeing God - Lain is a dead human? - caused evolution of wired via protocol - no longer existing in real world - trying to hide has been effortless - dad saying goodbye??? didn't do enough? - no permission - are you a god if you don't have worshippers - knights members got doxxed - men in black went after all knights members - using her? that's why they played house? - all fake suicide? - lain being used by men in black for omnipresence? - anti-god - wired can only be a subsystem - Eri residual program being removed - they love lain - dad, men in black, god - lain was born in the wired, physical is hologram - brought to physical by god #### EP11 - recap - focus on something - lain is software #### EP12 - landscape - men in black tormented by lain - arisu was only friend, even without connecting - connecting to me - humans reconnected from the unconscious level - lain is software to connect the world - block off unpleasant sensations and only accept positive by having no body - if you love her, connect with her - false god gave birth to lain - if he was able to create lain, couldn't the same be said for him #### EP13 - ego - only exist in people - arisu traumatized, everything she does messes up - completely disappeared - arisu remembers - "god" turned into a normal person - men in black handymen - what isn't remembered never happened - memory is a record - deleted yourself from everyone's memory - if wired was built off something else, do we need to know - ignorance on how the world is? - dad pulls her outside of darkness, seems to know? - arisu became teacher, approached lain but didn't notice her fully, she chose to act as if they didn't know eachother - she commited digital suicide ### Rating watch "Her" after watching this ### Personal Significance ### Themes - Identity crisis - Social outcast - Chronically online - preferring online over social interaction, pretending you enjoyed it - internet and wired - who's to say that humans aren't machines - existentialism - who she is - decides that her purpose is to erase herself - collective unconscious - The connection between our virtual and physical self - The way we lose our physical sense of self when we connect to the internet, as we begin to base our identity on virtual signals - Lain's conformity to cherish people's appreciation of her - The online world's influence on physical world actions #### Reviews - > Identity and the internet. There's a lot of ways to interpret it but to me it's about the ability to be a different person online from who you are in real life, and the potential problems that can come from those two world clashing or just getting way too far into the internet side and allowing your real self to suffer in the process. [^1] - > things that happen online aren't any less real than in the physical world. This also ties in with the belief that reality is simply our perception [^1] - > To me it’s relevant because of the idea of committing suicide to become a god online. People make huge sacrifices in real life to inflate their online persona. And I think there is very significant blurring of the boundaries between real life and online life right now especially for younger generations. [^2] ### Memorable Scenes ### What I enjoyed ### What I disliked ### Similar # References [^1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/Lain/comments/b3imxm [^2]: https://www.reddit.com/r/Lain/comments/1cspy7d/when_people_say_that_lain_is_now_true_more_than/