The Power of Visual Imagery in Dreams

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I think there's a spectrum of visual imagery. You're maybe on one side, like closer to the no visual imagery, but you still have some and then some people have much more vivid imagery than me. For me, my dreams are so fragmented and kind of weird and jara and not kind of cohesive that it's not even anywhere close to as good as real life. I sort of like your friends way of looking at it. Well, yeah, it would be funny to think about an intervention that gave people like happier dreams. Like, how much utility that would create, right? Does it even have to be more vivid?

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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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