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248. How to Be Tim Ferriss

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Is There a Risk of Survivorship Bias?

Ferris is what you might call a serial obsessionist. At the moment, one of his obsessions is lucid dreaming. You can cultivate the ability to trigger this which allows you to do some very interesting things. Having a basic understanding of sleep cycles is helpful. If you can wake yourself during a remcycle, stay awake for, say, ten to 50 minutes and then go back to sleep, that will oftentimes increase the frequency of inducing lucidity. There are some people who take hoperzine, a, which is an aseal colon estras inhibiter prior to sleep, in belief that it facilitates lucid dreaming.

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