How do you know if you're dreaming or awake?
Short & Curly
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ποΈ 30 September 2024
β±οΈ 21 minutes
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Summary
Right this very moment, are you awake or are you dreaming? You're awake, right? But are you sure? Maybe you're just in the middle of a very realistic dream? Philosophers have been debating this question for centuries. And we are going to solve it today! Or are we?
Brains Trust β Linden Park Primary School, Adelaide β Genevieve, Grace, Alexa, Poppy, Chelsea, Sophie
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| 0:00.0 | ABC Listen. |
| 0:02.0 | Yya! |
| 0:04.0 | Oh my gosh Molly, you just punched yourself in the face like really hard. |
| 0:08.0 | Oh, oh! |
| 0:11.0 | Yeah, well I'm trying to figure something out. |
| 0:15.4 | Momo, we've been over this. |
| 0:17.1 | If you challenge yourself to a fight, no one would win because you both have the exact amount |
| 0:21.9 | of strength and capabilities. |
| 0:23.6 | Firstly, I would definitely beat other Molly in a fight, that weakling. |
| 0:29.2 | Secondly, no, that's not what I'm trying to figure out. I'm trying to figure out if I'm awake or still asleep. |
| 0:38.0 | What? |
| 0:40.0 | Oh, Carl, let me talk you through it. I had this really realistic dream last night. |
| 0:45.4 | I was the mayor of a city called the East Coast, |
| 0:49.0 | which was a city on the West Coast made entirely of roller coasters. The buildings were roller coasters. The parks |
| 0:58.9 | had roller coasters on them and of course everyone used a roller coaster to get to school and to work. |
| 1:07.0 | And there I was the proud proud mayor of a perfect city. I said hello to people walking down the street. I made |
| 1:16.8 | my oral decisions. I was so happy. It all felt so real. Except it wasn't because then, |
| 1:25.0 | Wham, I was in my bed, not a roller coaster in sight. |
| 1:30.0 | Carl, the dream had been so realistic. You know how dreams often make no sense or jump around a lot and you wake up going, well that was weird. |
| 1:40.0 | Yeah, I had that this morning actually when I woke up from my dream about eating jam on toaster. |
| 1:47.0 | Not jam on toast, Molly. I ate jam on a toaster. |
| 1:52.0 | Right. Well, my dream wasn't like that. It was so lifelike that I woke |
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