The Importance of Imagining Images in Your Mind

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I think some dreams are just like, they don't have that divviness where you don't have the full resonance as though like you're really experiencing it. So yeah, certainly when bad things happen to me in my dreams, it is upsetting. But I do think that their experiences can have different levels of vividness, even in waking life,. Like if someone's on a lot of alcohol, or really tired, like life can have seems to have less vividness than normal. It might even make it more stressful because you're kind of less mentally prepared for it.

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Arden Koehler is a researcher and writer at 80,000 Hours, a nonprofit whose mission is to help people use their careers to help solve the world's most pressing problems, and an active member of the effective altruism community. Arden has a PhD in philosophy from New York University, with a specialisation in ethics and attitudes toward time, and a B.A. in philosophy from University of California, Berkeley. You can check out her work at 80,000 Hours, and you can email her at arden@80000hours.org.

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