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#295 - Philosophy and the Good Life

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Transformation of Dreaming

There are things that can happen there that really do transform your experience. You could suddenly recognize your dreaming and yet the dream persists. That is a, I don't know if you've ever had that experience, but that is certainly an experience that is on the menu to be had. There is an analogous process every time you recognize,. really recognize a thought for what it is, right? The thought, I'll never see her again. Is a really, really bad dream, certainly in the midst of bereavement or in the peak anguish of a breakup of a relationship. And then that unraveling itself becomes a practice, right? It's just the recognition of thought.

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