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Tony Hawk: Harnessing Passion, Drive & Persistence for Lifelong Success

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Using Visualization and Dreaming for Learning and Problem Solving

In skateboarding, the speaker sometimes has ideas or tricks come to them in dreams or during the night./nAfter experiencing a traumatic injury, the speaker's dreams about skateboarding shifted from feeling unable to skate to feeling able to do all their tricks again./nDuring rapid eye movement sleep, the brain is active and dreams are vivid, but the body is paralyzed to prevent acting out dreams./nDreams during rapid eye movement sleep may serve as a form of trauma therapy, allowing intense experiences in the mind without physical reactions./nSome people may wake up while still partially paralyzed after rapid eye movement sleep./nThe speaker's kids have also experienced waking up while partially paralyzed.

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