ShutUpBrain and WakeUpBrain

"i like to think this is the same process that Nicolas Cage undergoes to prepare himself for each scene he's about to film."

- TheARCTrooper7529, on YouTube.

ShutUpBrain and WakeUpBrain are two rather peculiar videos that Chris uploaded to YouTube on 30 April 2009. Both videos depict him yelling at, supposedly, his brain.

ShutUpBrain
"Shut up, brain! Just shut up!"

Transcript
Ah! You're keeping me awake at night! What are you doing keeping me awake? Just shut up! Shut up! Don't make me stay awake!

I'm supposed to fall asleep! I need to be in Dreamland!

Wake up! Shut up! Shut up!

Shut up! Shut up, brain! Just shut up!

Shut up, or I'll make you shut up!

Shut up!

SHUT UUUPPP! Shut up! SHUT UP!

Shut uuuuuuuuuppp!

Sh'up!

WakeUpBrain
"Wake up! Wakeupwakeupwakeupwakeup!"

Transcript
Wake up! [smacks himself in the head repeatedly] Wake up, brain!

You're supposed to be thinking for me! Hey! [smacks himself in the head] I need you to give me some thoughts to, some rational thoughts...for the situation that's at hand. C'mon, brain, wake up!

[smacks himself in the head]

Quit fallin’ asleep on me! You always get, you always...get me in a bad situ-, you always put me in an awful situation when you...fall asleep on me. Wake up! [smacks himself in the head again] C'mon, wake up!

[smacks himself in the head repeatedly]

You'd better wake up, or I'm gonna g-, accidentally give myself amnesia one of these moments!

[smacks himself in the head repeatedly and groans] Okay.

[starts smacking himself in the head at the end of every sentence] Wake up! Just stay awake! Stay awake! Don't fall asleep on me! Don't make me zone out. Shut up! Wake up! Wake up! Wakeupwakeupwakeupwakeup!

Wake up! Wake uuuppp!

Wake up.

Yeah, you don't need to...zone out when I get stressed out. Just...stay awake, okay? Stay awake. Wake up!

WAKE UP!