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Who Wins & WHO Loses? The 227th Evolutionary Lens with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying
DarkHorse Podcast
Narrative Engine in Dreams
The hypothesis suggests that the mind generates narratives to run individuals through these stories as a form of practice while asleep. This narrative engine deploys stories to provide useful practice sessions that are shielded from the conscious mind. The speaker's experience with lucid dreaming revealed the ability to control actions but not predict dialogues, indicating that the narratives are crafted for practice rather than pre-knowledge. The realization that these narratives are written in a waking state was a recent observation.
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