Dream States At this point, with most of the well-defined problem-solving techniques explored (in a previous post), we delve into the great known unknown, the mind’s secret weapon, the dream. Therein lies a power most certainly unknown. Let’s begin at the movies. What happens when you watch an intense movie late at night? Your mind is absorbed in the pictures, dialogue, and sounds of the film. Your mind still dwells on these, computing, digesting, and ruminating on all of these even into sleep. In your dreams, your subconscious mind recalls all these thoughts but convolutes them as only dreams can. Maybe you wake up with yourself a part of the distortion. Maybe, you make it through the night of restless sleep but your wake troubled. Dreams fade quickly, happily. Has this happened to you? To me, many times. As a pre-teen, my dad took me to the movie, The Man with the Atom Brain . The imagery and plot of that movie stayed with me for years. Welcome to one aspect of cr
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