Journey to lucidity | Liam McClain | TEDxYouth@ISH
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- Опубліковано 8 лис 2016
- Liam sometimes has lucid dreams. In his talk he explains what lucid dreams are and how you can get them yourself.
I am a graduate of The International School of The Hague. I've been a lover of films my whole life, but only recently distinguished my passion for filmmaking as more than just a hobby. While I care far more for the Arts than I do for the Sciences, I have had a distinct fascination with sleep and dreams for years now. The fusion of these two enthusiasms have lead me to choose filmmaking as my path in waking life while lucid dreaming during the nights.
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He is still dreaming. He is dreaming he is giving a Ted talk. I am dreaming I am watching a Ted talk. You are dreaming you are reading this comment.
Who is who?
Thank you Jim Ogden
@@ternolindeman7209 I am me, as you are he, as you are me, as we are all together
@@CTcuber4K The of and to. A in is I, that it for you, was with on. But be they.
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I have found sleep paralysis to be terrifying in the past. But after my son explained to me how it felt good to just let go & see what happens I stopped fearing it.
I regularly use the force and fly in my dreams
EvilSnips i have also flown in my dreams but its been awhile. I want to experience that dream state again
@@angiemayer3582 i also had an lucid dream once of maybe twice im not sure and scince then im trying to do it again but im unable to.
However one thing i have found is that if you listen to Binaural Beats while sleeping we can dream more frequently or remember your dreams more often to be particular.
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That’s me with the red shirt, looking like I’m bored to death
(Which I wasn’t)
mate ur famous
Oh my goodness, I hate it when my facial expression does not match how I am feeling.🙃
It took me roughly 2-3 months for me to have a lucid dream but the effort was worth it. It's hard and takes time but totally worth learning to lucid dream.
@kron n Initially my dream recall was bad, i started writing dreams(whatever i remembered), then I started doing techniques(mild + wbtb). For the first couple of times i woke up as soon as i got lucid, then i realised i need to make dream stable before doing things. I didn't do techniques consistently so it took me more time.
@@mr.vgamer6594 what was the thing or technique that really did it for you eventually…and what was your first lucid dream if I can ask?
I am a 71 yrs old "Savant" that has lucid dreams on a new energy source. I have worked in the analytical chemistry for over 30 yrs. My lucid dreams turn out to have a basis in reality. I have asked questions about what the crux of the reaction is and was given an answer. Later dreams show apparatus with quantum crystalline structures lining the apparatus, along with nanorods clouds. The last one that was semi verified by a UA-cam video came very close to the same concepts reviled to myself. These were edge state femions particle and superconducting manifesting and transport. If you find that you can interact in your dreams, use it to a constructive and not just a playground!
wow, that sounds pretty remarkable. how do you figure out if such a device can be made with today's technology? also, do you have tips on getting in a lucid state?
@@shrimpkins I ran an inductive coupled plasma mass spectroscopy instrument for on thousands of samples. If the samples were hard to digest and if it solid material of any number of elements we often used platinum crucibles to drive off any volatile gasses constituents, combine them with concentrated acids, there were just too many combinations of reaction combinations that I could give to explain the complexity of just one type, on only one instrument, but this I had a special affinity for. Over my analytical chemistry career I ran so many thousands of samples it impossible to know. We mostly troubleshoot problems in products, new analytical instrument technology, material testing compliance, ran product development test and advise on improvements, developed new quality assurance testing, government compliance parameters, and just about everything imaginable. Some times developers needed answer for problems almost in too short of time to work up a procedure period. I would here "We need this today" and it might be a unique matrix that there was no literature on conceptualizing a test. Usually I would sleep on it and i would have a dream and the next day things would work out fine.
I always loved classical chemistry, but I was stress out with the pace that was expected of me and retired early. I had always had a savant obsession for energy and read the scientific physics periodical journals and realized that solid state and nano sciences in the quantum realm was the way that any realistic breakthrough would come to fruition. After a few year rack my brain studying quantum mechanics, solid state chemistry and physic, superconductivity, researching online, but I didn't seem to have any concrete ideas. Then one night I had a lucid dream. That was seven years ago and three years before this theoretical physicists from Prinston University had this discovery as a post doctorate.
When I saw a video on his work it blew me away that it was the preliminary theory of my dream. Not a lot of understanding is realized in this area and what my lucid dreams have revealed is so far beyond what anyone can imagine. It's funny I was shown a crucible that I could see through and evaluate the colors and stoceometric quanity of materials within the crucible. Then an electric or plasma arc, like a small fine thunder bolt zigzagged into and around the materials. Other things happened, but I asked "what is the crux of this experiment?" And a voice said "Bismuth" and I head him but it didn't make sense so I asked again and a pink neon sign wrote out the word. I read everything I could find about it and I found it was a superconductor and a ton of fascinating information and that was my initial eureka moment. I have had several more dreams that are bringing me closer and closer to a revolutionary concept that would change our existence. I will never take any credit for it or monetary compensations either, for this is not my idea, as it was from an unconcious higher intelligence.
@@shrimpkins sorry I got carried away with one of my Savant tangents. You asked me any tips on lucid dreaming. Unless you have died and brought to life, I'm not sure if I do. My Savant ism seem to come from an accident when I was six years old and received a brain injury by a speeding school bus while walking to grade school. We lived on a gravel road in a rural area of Michigan. As I reached the top of a hill a school bus, myself, and a milk tanker truck all were converging onto the same diagonal line. I was on the edge of the road as the bus was and it was me or the milk truck truck for that bus driver. I later found out after a extended of time that the emergency medical people had brought to a close by farmer's house and revieved me before taking to a local hospital. I find it hard to relate to people and find common conversations boring. I tend to analyze every thing and determine a best way to determine the best solutions to just about everything and often offend my "superiors", but as a retiree that doesn't present any problems.
@@cerimite7674 That is really fascinating. So the sign was pink like pepto bismol? oddly enough, the same day i saw your post, i had been reading about the amazing geometry & colors of bismuth crystals. sorry it took me so long to reply to this, i forgot to look at my youtube notifications. i read your other post too, about the accident, which was wild. the way you describe yourself sounds like me, but i never had a brush with death like that. i have had a few psychedelic experiences that were similar to your lucid dream, but chaotic and not particularly revelatory in the manner of your bismuth dream. the similarity is the overwhelming feeling that many of the brilliant leaps in invention and understanding of the natural world that humans attribute to our great scientists, or our own ingenuity, are subtle gifts from a "higher intelligence;" perhaps more advanced beings who try to nudge us along our evolutionary path in the way that humans occasionally help animal populations on the verge of extinction [although our version of "help" is much more ham-fisted and usually selfishly motivated].
@@shrimpkins thanks for your kind remarks, as I tend to get a little overly enthused and describe things others don't understand and I can see that they feel uncomfortable. My son is a nurse and friends that are a psychiatrist and a psychologist. After talking to our psychologist friend about what I was doing during my retirement, I went on about my studies and my lucid dreams, she informed me that I was a savant and that I should apply for 'Gates Foundation" grant. The psychologist is a highly respected in the city of St Louis Missouri and surrounding area. I was somewhat taken aback, as I never thought about anything along that direction. After I thought about it, it all made sense, as I wondered why I was always so different from other people. I like to be alone a explore ideas and get bored listening to small talk.
I am writing a fictional book on my past lives, though the scenes come in dream form. I prefer using the first or third person omnesance point of view to internalize the scenes or build the characters.
W.I.L.D. thing is groovy, and it's makes my heart sing.
Popular consensus is that using reality checks is the easiest way to initiate Lucid dreaming.
I never purposely sought out lucid dreaming and I didn’t know about it until I googled my experience with realizing I was in a dream.
When I was 11 I lost my wallet at the Theater and I had like 60bucks in there, which is a lot for a kid. I was devastated to say in the least. Every day since then( 10yrs as I’m now 21 ) whenever I get up from sitting down I always check for my wallet in my back pocket and then pat my front left pocket for my keys and then my front right for my phone. In dreams one of the three or all three will be missing. I think back over the past few hrs to retrace my steps when I could have lost said items and that’s when I realize I had gone to sleep, thus rendering me Lucid.
That’s how it started initially, but now it happens naturally. If I have 20 dreams at least 8 of them are lucid. I have flown and I have thought of a person I wanted to talk to or hangout with and they just appear. (Never in front of my eyes though. I turn around think about seeing said person and turn back around and there they are )
I’ve never created new landscapes or anything like that or flown to space or talked with God or any craziness like that. Maybe because I’m not that developed or something else IDK.
Also I’ve never felt wind in my dreams. Cold and heat, yes but never wind. Not even while flying. When flying I just feel like a pulling in my gut as I force myself to fly. Sometimes it’s high like a small propeller plane other times it’s only like 20ft.
That McArn Guy hahah I’m the same, I always check my pocket for my wallet, phone and keys. And that’s how my lucid dream was actually induced, I checked my right front pocket for my wallet and bingo!
Excellent, thank you for sharing.
It seems that the summoning a person trick always works in this way, where you only can summon someone or something if you're not directly looking there. So if you were to summon someone or something, they would appear in behind you or somewhere else near you. It's not about not being developed enough that you didn't do the other things you mentioned, it's all about choice. You have the freedom to do all those things in a lucid dream if you so wish, your dreamscape can bend to your desires or expectations. If you set the intention and stick to it, you will do it. If you don't intend to do it, of course you won't do it. As for wind, I've felt wind while flying at least once. It was nice.
Lucid dreaming has an expectation factor. If you will expect wind, you will feel wind. If you will expect no wind, you will feel no wind. If you expect something to be one way, it will be so. You expect something to be another way, it shall be this other way.
Jump flying is awesome. Kind of like Hulk jumping. You feel the thrust as you push off the ground. The g force on you. The wind starts as you split the air. Usually takes me 3 or 4 decent jumps before I get going. Isn't always easy to stop lol.
I used to lucid dream a lot as a kid. Not so much lately but i often experience sleep paralysis, this happens a lot but since i understand it i can get out of it.
yknow you can enter a lucid dream straight from sleep paralysis and I've never tried it but I've heard that doing that gives you very vivid lucid dreams. You should try it.
@@katebarnes9156 Thanks, I have never tried it as well, so will give it a try.
@@katebarnes9156 Correct. It's possible to slip into a very vivid lucid dream from sleep paralysis because the Wake Induced Lucid Dream method gets someone into very vivid lucid dreams from a similar stage as sleep paralysis. Since this method has a lower chance of success, it may also lead to having sleep paralysis, though experienced dreamers should try to lead the experience into a lucid dream.
Just punched myself to check if im lucid right now or not
Turns out im awake and now my cheek bone is hearting
It might be a bad idea for a reality check, you might just wake yourself up...
You could see if your one hand goes through your other hand like the guy in the video. Or see if you have five fingers on each hand. In a dream, you would have missing or extra fingers.
I've achieved W.I.L.D before, it was terrifying tbh, but I didn't care and went on to experience some pretty amazing stuff.
Great talk. In s short period of time he hit on the main points. Very well presented as well.
I lucid dream every night and consider myself blessed not lucky!!
How long did you train to have a luzid dream every night?
Lucid dreams are pretty amazing
Inspiring!
Sooo proud ❤️
I am 2years lucid dreaming😊 and the experience is wonderful that is why Im always excited to go to sleep. But I really need to practice more to do that slowing time and stopping time. I just can control my dreams and I want to do moreee❤️❤️
I just started learning about Lucid Dreams. I've tried to explain to friends and family how when I sleep it's like being in a second world. It's like I created dream maps of different places and times from my life. I sometimes don't recognize im dreaming but when i do its incredible. I'm going to apply some techniques I’ve learned while researching. Now I have a better understanding about my dream life. Thank you!
I want to start lucid dreaming too.... Can u help me with that ...like give me insights on how to start?
@@aayushharchandani wow I should start checking my UA-cam just saw what you wrote. Well it's been 8 months hopefully you've been lucid dreaming. If not here's what works for me. I put on the sound of a thunderstorm or wind in the trees ocean waves something like that and I imagine that I am falling off of the edge of something into blackness and as I'm falling I'm passing different everyday objects. I slowly start to feel that I am weightless and I will begin to start dreaming. You know that feeling when you are half asleep half awake you get that feeling. Then you might start to feel heavy but that is good. To realize and make sure that I am dreaming try to push my fingers through my hand and if I can successfully push my fingers through my hand I know I'm dreaming but try not to get over excited in the beginning I would try to do too much and end up waking myself up it takes time. It helps you good luck and sweet dreams enjoy.
@@ryknologyThank you for the advice. I tried lucid dreaming but its affecting my health i guess, as I'm not able to get rest. I have started it again but i still need some insights. Hope you can help in future?
@@aayushharchandani have you succeeded in entering a lucid dream what techniques are you using? I'm wondering why you are not feeling rested. I don't lucid dream every night and my dreams are very vivid and sometimes I will wake up and feel exhausted because my dream was so intense and I was doing so much in it is something like that happening to you?
@@ryknology i succeeded once. I enter into lucid state and just wake up after that most of the times. I use MILD technique, but i guess it isn't helping much. But i really really want to lucid dream. FYI i have nightmares.
Is there any other method we could continue this conversation?
All of my dreams are lucid since a little kid. I can change and direct them like a movie, for entertainment.
On the other hand, I have a friend who claims never to have dreamed, or cannot recall any.
I must agree with Steven. There are so many glitches when dealing with lucid dreams. Like waking up only to realize you’re still in a dream and you are somewhere else and you can recall where you are but not sure why or how you got there. Maybe I can’t control them as well as others but my hypothesis and it remains a hypothesis is that we are in a dream state even in this reality. What happens when we die? No one knows. My hypothesis is that when we die we actually wake up realizing how crazy of a dream we just had. We realize it was the ultimate lucid and clear, transparent and vivid reality when actually there are still some glitches in this reality that won’t be there when we die and awake in a new reality. It’s a difficult concept but one that I’m earnest on discovering. I guess the only way to discover if this hypothesis is true or not is to die and find out. We’ll find out eventually. In the meantime I will enjoy my lucid dreams and appreciate my ability to concoct such realities inside my head.
Indeed, some simulation theories as well as quantum physics, seem to hint at this.
And many glitches in this " apparent reality ", may be the result of parallel worlds colliding .
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I've been lucid dreaming for 30 years.... and I'm 35. any questions?
Do you ever wake induce lucid dreaming? That's what usually happens with me. The most bizarre thing is that as you fall asleep, your mind is still awake, you feel totally awake, and you feel yourself pierce some sort of veil and pop out the other side. You feel the transition between sleep and awake.
Ever get anything like that?
Sometimes it's more like travelling down a dark tunnel, or pulling yourself out of your physical body...
How to achieve it😢
@@lepidussollertiaatheriusex7274 trust me, if the situation was not in your favor, it will haunt u for the rest of your life. It will lead to more questions than answers. I have lucid dream every night, u r only in control of yourself but not the situation. Like he said, everyone will dream avg 7 times a night, which means 7 different situation a night n not all situation will in your favor..The worst is when Lucid Dreaming incorporate with False Awakening..Damn!
@@rahimrashid4184 i try so hard yet i havent achieved tge lucid dreaming stage yet😩but would really looove to explore that side u r saying dor atleast once😜😜
@@rahimrashid4184 You can train as a lucid dreamer to dominate the dreamscape, to take control over the dream entirely. I have managed to take control over my dreamscape on a number of my lucid dreams. It's not necessary that you can't control your dreamscape. I doubt you have lucid dreams every night, you may be confusing them for very vivid dreams. If you don't have control over stuff other than yourself in a lucid dream, you just didn't get there yet because you didn't teach yourself to not be afraid because this is YOUR dream, YOU are its master, rather than the other way around.
Good show Liam. That's an awesome name. See the One, Buddhist Monk on Habits of Happiness. Peace be with you.
Hi I’ve been lucid dreaming as long as I can remember. It takes a different type of hard work to achieve this great goal because it is such an abnormal process to acquire it naturally. I was able to lucid dream from the start but I wasn’t able to control any of it. It all started as lucid nightmares until I was able to distinguish dreams and reality. I can relate to the fascination people feel and how they wish to share the impossible adventures they experience in their minds.
Beautiful.
Thank you!
this guy understands power point.
Beauuutiful!!
Adorable! 😘
People who say there are no laws in dreams are kind of wrong because there are certain laws that govern dreams however we are not used to them and at first we might not recognize them.
For example you cannot force something to occur in dreams but rather you can allow them to happen, always remember that.
I disagree :)
Or influence things.
BRAVO!!! Spoken like a "TRUE ONEIRONAUT" May your message reach seas of CONSCIOUSNESS for there are So Much FUN and HEALING to be found in Lucidity. Thank you for your LUCID and HONEST Presentation.
Does he practice Lucidity or just waits for him to have them? I don't have natural but I practice it and now I do have naturally accruing ones. It is actually quit simple after a couple months of practice. Their are lots of videos that will teach you this. In less then 1 month I have learned the basics and have had 1 lucid dream. If you don't practice it will be hard. But if you practice hard you will realize that it becomes quite simple.
how did you practice for couple of months? what reality check did you use and how many times did you do the reality check during the day? can a reminder app help to do reality checks? Please help...
Symbol at end of video says" infinitely curious". Cuz this dude looks infinetly curious.
I had a really weird lucid dream where I couldn’t wake up because I was being kept in this dome like dream jail? I tried to yell myself awake but I couldn’t for a while. It was weird to be lucid without any control.
ikr, when I was little(pre-k I think) I had a dream that I was stuck underwater with Ariel and I couldn't move or talk and I knew that i was dreaming so I kept telling myself in my head to wake up but I couldn't. I thought i was gonna be stuck in there so I got so scared. I remember it feeling like it was 40 mins long. My mom told me she couldn't wake me up cause i was in such deep sleep.
@@lul9081 That might have been sleep paralysis. A lucid experience where you have full self awareness but there's a disconnect between your body and brain, with the brain having supposedly awakened but to stop hallucinating and deactivate the paralysis of the body. The body remains paralyzed in such an experience, since the brain doesn't realize that your dream body is assigned to the controls of the real body, which happens to still be paralyzed. At this stage, an experienced lucid dreamer should slip back into dreaming, take control over the dream environment and free themself in this way, which would get them to experience the most vivid and realistic kind of lucid dream, a Wake Initiated Lucid Dream. It is quite a predicament though, difficult to do because the circumstances are sudden and often scary.
He says that when you become lucid in a dream, you gain complete control of your dreams. That is false. You do gain some control, and the amount of control no doubt can be increased over time. Perhaps some lucid dreamers get to the point where they can have a lot of control. But you don't gain complete control as soon as you become lucid. I've had perhaps a dozen lucid dreams in my life. One of the challenges when lucid dreaming is to not wake up. When you realize you are in a dream, you easily get excited, perhaps even may worry that you will wake up and miss the chance to explore lucid dreaming, and the worry can actually wake you up. Or simply the emergence of lucidity can wake your body from sleep. Perhaps you try to fly --- you might find you can't fly exactly in the way you want to -- you fly more slowly and with more struggle than you like, for example. Or you want to make love to a gorgeous partner, but somehow it doesn't happen -- sort of like when you try to run in a dream, and for some reason you can only move like molassus.
it really feels like real life
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WBTB then 8MG of Galantamine... good night sweet prince!
there is a theory that dreams are real experiences when we switched to our astral bodies which are almost weightless, and act inside the astral realm.
It's not a theory though, it's speculation at best. A theory is a well-substantiated explanation of how something works, supported by pieces of different types of evidence. Anyway, no reason to believe that any of this speculation is true, as there's no reason to believe the mind gets seperated from the body at any point in time, and no reason to believe that an "astral realm" exists.
@@rockysandman5489 other than multiple people experiencing it as real, if you think that's not a reason to believe it's true then you're clearly lying. Doesn't mean it is true but any reasonable person would accept it as a reason.
@@curt6525 No, any REASONABLE person would accept it is a *bad* reason to think it's true. We're talking about whether there is a *good* reason to believe something is true.
If we humans want to navigate the world we're in reliably and consistently, we're gonna have to believe things for good reasons, not for bad ones. Personal experience is unreliable, since people who claim to experience disconnect of the consciousness and the body have no way of telling whether what they interpret the experience was, was actually what they experienced. It could be that they interpreted their experience incorrectly, and what actually happened isn't what they interpret that had happened.
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Use the farse!
13 or 14 + 1= 17
Must be dreaming 😜
He never said it was a year later.
It never works for me.. If I realize to do a reality test in my dream then why would I need to do the test in a first Place? . And if the finger goes through the hand it feels like normal, like it should do that.. If I dream that I'm a deer in a forest it feels like it should be like that and has always been. In dream everything that happens feels normal.. But I had once a lucid dream when I was younger. But right when I understood that it was a dream I lost all the interest of that dream cos the feeling that it's not real was too boring, then I just woke myself up.. It's much more fun and normal when you dont realize that you are dreaming. Everything are more exciting when not lucid dreaming..
In a lucid dream you can literally spawn objects lmao its fun to let loose. You can fly, go anywhere you want- do anything you want. Its a bizarre experience all around. I enjoy lucid dreaming its a nice escape from reality. Say you are into skateboarding, you can practice in your dream and it helps in real life! I skimboard myself and when im lucid i love to go to the beach and imagine really good waves, then when im awake i feel so much better at skimboarding and it really does improve my skills at it. I dunno why i wrote this all but just have fun with lucid dreaming, you can do anything.
oh, so you are just naturally boring
That's the point of doing the reality tests in reality, because in reality you recognize that it's not normal for the hand to go through the other hand. It trains your brain to make it a habit so that it will spawn the reality test in your dream just from habit alone, and in the dream you WILL remember why you are doing that reality test in the first place because you will remember the habit, then you will realize something's off, and then proceed to achieve lucidity.
In a lucid dream you can literally do everything you want and everything can FEEL real, even when you know it isn't. That's the point of it. You can have WILD adventures in dreams and it's much more fun when you are experiencing it to the degree that it feels REAL and LOOKS real, as opposed to normal dreams which are nowhere near as vivid and the firsthand experience is nowhere near as hand, considering most normal dreams are usually experienced through memory of after the fact. It's the lucid dreams that are the real deal, the opposite of boring.
@@rockysandman5489 Can you become a pro at lucid dreaming, like the more you enter lucidity, the more nights you become lucid. The more you practice, the more vivid your dreams are.
Whatever!!!!! His voice.....•'•
I can’t b busy during the day n busy in my mind at night,
But it's not like being busy. It's calming and stress relieving. It's quite fun actually
Lucid dreaming is rather calming, refreshing, relieves of stress and does not harm your quality of sleep. Your body still sleeps, whatever your digestive system has left to digest and transfer throughout your body still does it, energy still being replenished throughout your body and everything is the same as in regular sleep. Literally the only difference is you have awareness in your dream, it's just one extra part of your brain activating, a part that is usually turned off in sleep. But it does not affect negatively affect how energy is replenished throughout your body, has nothing to do with it.
Can i marry this guy?!
Maddie Shukla you can marry me?
Haha
Only because of lucid dreaming? Wow... Maybe I should become a lucid dreaming instructor myself, considering I'm pretty experienced with it.
You’re one step to start astral projections... this second technique right after that cataleptic state, is the doorway for the astral projection.
And, please do not mix up one with another. They are absolutely different. Astral projections are real.
You can leave your body and take a walk in your house, see your brother at the living room, doing what he was doing before you went for the projection. You can make tests, like asking for someone to draw a number and place it somewhere specific, etc, and do much more.
Rodrigo Andreiuk what videos of any do you recommend for a beginner's guide. I have a ton of lucid dreams so I hope that's a bonus. Sometimes it's better to learn something from a blank slate . Hopefully this isn't one of those things.
A preoccupation with lucid dreaming is a sign of lack of spiritual satisfaction in waking life. Not surprising in the world we live in today though.
Fact check: You are spending your remaining 50 years for that 25 years.
You won't learn anything here. But congratulations for being able to lucid dream! (sarcasm)
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+Tea Potsticker Sure, why not? I've always been interested in lucid dreaming. Perhaps I'll dream of a mysterious, tucked away little Japanese teahouse that serves ridiculously delicious gyoza. All inspired by a UA-camr's name! :)
Yep, those dreams are awesome and rare!
So true. But they sure are memorable when they do happen!
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