Joe Rogan Experience #2152 - Terrence Howard

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The Joe Rogan Experience.

Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day. (instrumental music plays) How did you get started with all this?

(sighs) (smacks lips) I didn't come into this world the way everybody else does, I don't think. I used to think that everybody had this similar experience, but ... Like, if I asked you, "What was your first memory in life?" what would it be?

(exhales) I don't think I know.

My first memory was (sighs) almost like when you're dreaming and you're falling, and you hit the bottom and you wake up.

Mm-hmm.

That was my first memory. But I didn't wake up here. I was inside my mother's womb. And I was about maybe six months inside the womb. And I'm like, "W- okay, don't forget I'm here. Okay, okay. Don't forget. Don't forget. Don't forget. Don't forget." You go to sleep, wake up again. Now something's moving in front of you. And you're like, "Oh, that's my friend," but I had a different name for it. I didn't know it was my hand, but I knew I had a title for it. Go back to sleep, all of those things. Then ultimately, you get ready to come out. I remember all of that, getting com-

You remember coming out?

Remember being compressed, you know, in this ... You wanna panic, but there's, you're flooded with, like, some serotonin and dopamine to where you feel relaxed. You go right back to sleep. You remember being born. I remember being circumcised. I remember the whole nine. And the proof of it was when my wife Mira, that you just met, when she was six months pregnant with my son Kieran, I wanted to prove to her what I was talking about. So I put a light on her stomach every day at 6:00 at night. And I would move that light back and forth, and I would put a song on for a week straight. On Saturday, after a week, I didn't put the light there, and I didn't do the music. And he pushed up on her stomach. And then when I put the light there, he started following the light. And for the next two months, we did this every night, and he would go all the way around her belly, back and forth, always pushing on it. You know, I didn't understand at the time that maybe I've interfered with the development process, and maybe he's wrapped the cord around his neck. I shouldn't have done all of this. But he came out wonderful and fine. And this little boy, first thing he wanted to do was see light. He loved lights. From that early stage ... And I can ask him the square root of 2, the square root of 5, the square root of that, the square root of pi, the square ... and he will run it off, run it off. But he's just like e- uh, his personality is like Forrest Gump, you know (laughs) to where he's just loving and wants everybody to be around him and, and, and care. Um, but for me, that's where it started, in there. And then when I was about five years old, um, I had another dream. And this ... The room filled up with, like, this fluid, a dark fluid. And I could see the ripples of it moving around, and there was a being there. And I remember being walked through that fluid with him, and I was trying to look up at him, and I couldn't turn my head to look at him. And he had his hand straight. I knew his voice, but I did not know who h- who it was, but I felt confident and comfortable. And as we moved along this dark blue fluid path, um, with, like, chartreuse covering the, uh ... You know how when you look into a pool and you see the ripples? And if you're at the bottom of the pool, you'll see the ripples overlapping? That's what it looked like. And then when we got to the end of it, he said to me, "If you could have anything in the world, what would it be?" Now, we were really poor. (clears throat) My dad had just gotten out of prison, you know, for manslaughter. I didn't have much, but I said to him, "I wanna know how everything works." And at that moment, he used his left hand and he opened up the door, and there was this mansion, big brown doors. And inside of it was these crystalline flowers, big crystalline flowers, like a giant, like five feet across. And every time I tried to see his face, he would reach in and hand me another shape. And I was so fascinated with the shapes, because they didn't look like the Platonic solids. They didn't look like anything I'd ever seen before. And he would hand me these shapes, and each shape was different and amazing, and I woke up from that dream. But after that moment, any time something strange would happen in a dream, I had the powers of inception. Anytime something ... I would be naked at school. I would say, "I'm not naked. I must be dreaming." And immediately, I would run out of the school or run out of wherever I was and I would find that mansion again, and I had access to all the knowledge. The proof of it is the 97 patents that I have now. The proof of it is the industries that I've innovated. It's like waking u- having a dream that you have a diamond in your hand, and out of nowhere, you wake up and you're hoping you're holding it, and you try and hold it, and it's gone when you wake up. But the proof is all the stuff that I've been able to do now.