Dave Asprey
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Even Ben Franklin, they all had massive altered states practices.
Like the way Ben Franklin would invent, he would hold a couple marbles over a pan and he'd take like a little nap.
And as soon as he fell asleep, the marbles would fall into the pan and wake him up.
So he wanted to catch that mental state right between being awake and being asleep and come back so he could remember it.
And how many inventors had a dream that was the answer?
That's how we discovered the structure of DNA was a dream.
Really?
My grandfather was a co-inventor of the process we used to make plutonium called the Purex process.
It came to him in a dream.
No way.
Yeah, this is how it works.
That's crazy.
And we just try to deny all this and it's absurd.
This is what being human is.
A lot of people just brush off their dreams.
Yeah.
They really do.
And dreams can be just random.
Like if you have strange, vibrant dreams, look for mold toxins, right?
But there's a difference in the character of different dreams.