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I hope you slept well last night. I wonder if you remember the dreams that you had last night.

Some people seem to remember a lot of their dreams. the dreams that you had last night.

Some people seem to remember a lot of their dreams.

For other people, it's more of a struggle.

Some people say they don't dream at all.

I think scientists, most scientists, will tell us, sleep specialists, will tell us that all of us dream actually it's just that sometimes we remember sometimes we don't

Sometimes we might even be aware of dreaming throughout the night now dreaming's through the lens of mindfulness

dreaming's a really interesting topic. The challenge and the the caveat I say up

front is that the risk, the danger is that we get so sort of obsessed with our dreams that we start

spending most of our waking hours then thinking about our sleeping hours.

We don't really want to get into that. But I think it can be helpful to have just a sort of a general sense of what's happening. And it's interesting a lot of people will even compare their meditation to dream-like sort of state.

In so much as when we remove the filter of the rational mind, the thoughts that appear in the mind are

quite bizarre sometimes, they're quite strange, almost as though they sometimes

appear in our dreams when we're sleeping.

The way it was explained to me, and I'll give you a little bit of sort of context for this,

so I can remember one night I woke

up in the morning and I remembered this dream that I was swimming around in this swimming

pool that was filled with black current juice and I didn't really

know what to make of it. Maybe there was nothing to make of it. It was just a

strange dream. But then when I traced it back the previous day I'd been

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