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Today we're going to be answering a question, and here we go.

I'm reading your book Dreamwise, which is marvelous, by the way, and I came across the passage

where you say dreams don't have superior knowledge but different knowledge.

I'd been thinking that the whole time while reading, and this passage came to me with relief

and clarity.

My question is, has there ever been a time in your life when a dream or series of dreams seem to be telling you one thing, but you decided to go against it regardless?

If so, what was the result?

Is it always safe to assume that dreams are acting in your best interest, or is there a possibility that, like an auto autoimmune disease causes a person's body to

attack itself, your psyche can be self-destructive and deceitful. How do we know when to trust

dreams? Well, first of all, thank you for reading our book. There's, gosh, I'm not, like my

neurons are firing in response to this question. So first of all, I think this issue of like dreams and truth, like in some sense, dreams always tell the truth. But it's kind of like which truth, which I think we'll get into in a minute. Right. But I believe there may be a quote, like a pull quote somewhere in the book. I think it's by Felini,

where he talks about dreams telling the truth. It's a great quote. Anyway, so some of the themes I hear is like, how do we, first of all, I think there's this really interesting question of can

the psyche be self-destructive, which actually would make a great podcast topic. But then I think

there's also this question of like, how do we, what, what is the

relationship we can or should have with, I want to say, like the perspective we receive from

dreams? So the, another way of framing that, which I'm aligned with you on, is that we have a

dream and maybe the dream involves images,

which we recognize from our day-to-day life, there's always a seduction to literalize the dream.

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