Dr. Michael Grandner
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So anyway, how does sleep apnea work?
affect this.
They may not make logical sense, and maybe they're wrong.
I mean, you're sorting through, you're playing stuff out.
And that's also why, like, when you're awake, a person is a person, a house is a house, a car is a car.
But when you're in a dream...
The rules of the universe don't apply.
The concept of a car can also be the concept of a person.
And that person can be somebody else too.
And then it was me.
And then it was my sister.
And then we were in this house that I grew up in.
But actually, no, it wasn't.
It was really a mall.
Like, things can happen.
It's because you're not bound by the rules of the universe.
You're just bound by how your mind is organizing that information.
I think we dream because evolution figured out a long time ago that you can learn a lot by reading all the words on the page.
But you can, you can also learn some really important things by reading between the lines on the page, by reading things that aren't on the page and reading the concepts behind them.
But when you're engaging in the day, so the way the brain works, which is fascinating is the brain works by shortcuts.