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This is Optimal Living Daily, your simulated reality by Steve Pavlina of stevepavillina.com. And I'm Justin Mollick, the guy reading to you

to give you just a little dose of positivity every single day. So with that, let's get right to it as we

optimize your life. Your simulated reality by Steve Pavlina of stevepavlina.com.

Last night, I had a really cool, lucid dream.

It started out as a regular dream that involved a bunch of robbers stealing items from a large house.

I was trying to foil the robber's plans.

At some point, I realized that I was dreaming and became lucid. I ignored the robbers after that

and decided to try something interesting. Instead of donning superpowers and going around flying,

I wanted to see if I could get my dream characters to become more lucid themselves. Could I get them

to realize that we were in a shared dream together and to rise above their prescripted dream roles? Could I get them to realize that we were in a shared dream together and to rise above their

pre-scripted dream roles? Could I get them to fess up to the fact that our shared reality was a dream?

I went outside and found some characters to interact with, but they seemed pretty dim-witted.

They acted like plain vanilla NPCs that couldn't handle off-script events.

Then I had the idea that perhaps within the dream world, there are somehow limited computing resources available. Since I was

outdoors in a complex scene, could it be that rendering the outdoor environment was chewing up a lot

of dream resources, and that fewer resources were then available for the characters themselves?

I thought that if that were the case, then perhaps I could experience richer character interactions

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