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Podcast 318: The neuroscience of nightmares + how to use the Neurocycle to have better dreams

CLEANING UP YOUR MENTAL MESS with Dr. Caroline Leaf

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Your Nonconscious Mind Is Your Housekeeper

Our thoughts are always built into three places. And your nonconscious mind never goes to sleep. It is the rage area where all our thoughts have been converted into these trees inside of the brain, that's healthy, toxic and healthy. So it finds them, starts doing housekeeping and cleaning. Part of that cleaning is to bring the dirt being captured into the vacuum cleaner. Then you have to empty the dirt out of the vacuum cleaner - just like a coffee stain would be if i was using carpet cleaner on my floor. What an analogy. Buti just propped into my mind, andit's quite effective.

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