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Speaker 1: Now here's a highlight from Coast to Coast AM on iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 2: And welcome back to Coast to Coast George Norri with you,

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Speaker 2: Back with Robert Moss. Robert has been a dream traveler

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Speaker 2: since doctors pronounced him clinically dead in a hospital in Hobart,

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Speaker 2: Tasmania when he was three years old. From his experiences

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Speaker 2: in many worlds, he created his School of Active Dreaming,

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Speaker 2: his original synthesis of modern dream work in ancient shamanic

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Speaker 2: and mystical practices for journeying to realms beyond the physical

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Speaker 2: and growing creative imagination. He has led popular workshops all

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Speaker 2: over the planet, including a three year training for teachers

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Speaker 2: of Active Dreaming and online courses as well. His website

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Speaker 2: linked up at Coast tocoastam dot com. His latest book

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Speaker 2: is called Growing Big Dreams and Robert. Welcome back to

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Speaker 2: the dream world, my friend.

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Speaker 3: Good to be dreaming with you. George.

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Speaker 2: How have you been.

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Speaker 3: I'm absolutely fine. I'm actually doing very well. I don't

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Speaker 3: travel with much physically as I used to, but as

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Speaker 3: a dream trap where I'm out there all the time.

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Speaker 2: Excellent. Lots to talk with you about it. How you've

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Speaker 2: changed your life and your pattern. But tell us about

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Speaker 2: this episode when you were three. What happened?

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Speaker 3: Well, I had pneumonia. I was my great aunt, the

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Speaker 3: opera singer friend of Dame Nellie Melbury, had seen it

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Speaker 3: in the tea lead. She was that kind of psychic medium.

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Speaker 3: She seen me dying, hadn't seen me coming back. So

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Speaker 3: the doctor's pronounced me clinically dead. And when I come back,

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Speaker 3: they say, with some embarrassment to my parents, oh you

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Speaker 3: poor boy. He died and he came back back, didn't he.

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Speaker 3: I don't remember much from that episode, George, but when

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Speaker 3: I was nine it happened again. I'm an operating room

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Speaker 3: under the surgeon's knife for an emergency appendectomy, and I

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Speaker 3: find myself floating under the ceiling looking down at the scene,

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Speaker 3: not enjoying the sight of my open body with a

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Speaker 3: blood or listening to the nurses. So I drift out

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Speaker 3: the door and there's my mother grieving, and I don't

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Speaker 3: want to feel guilt for her. I'm an only kid,

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Speaker 3: and she's worried I'm going to die. I want to

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Speaker 3: do something. I look out the window of the hospital

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Speaker 3: forgetting the body on the bed, and I look over

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Speaker 3: the coast of Melbourne, Austrader. That's where I am now.

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Speaker 3: And I remember there's a theme park down there, Lunar Park,

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Speaker 3: just for fun, they used to say in the ads.

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Speaker 3: And I think, I'm a nine year old kid. I

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Speaker 3: want to go on the rides, look at the girls

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Speaker 3: and their summer dresses. So I've drift down, float down,

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Speaker 3: fly down to the theme park, go through the big

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Speaker 3: moon round face of the gate. I'm going to go

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Speaker 3: on the ghost train, I guess, And suddenly wish I'm

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Speaker 3: in another world, and I'm greeted by people who are

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Speaker 3: very tall and pale and beautiful. They receive me as

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Speaker 3: one of their own, and they raised me, and I

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Speaker 3: forget about the body on the bed, and I seem

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Speaker 3: to live a whole life George amongst these different pale,

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Speaker 3: slender people, until that life and that body had done,

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Speaker 3: and I expect, I think to go to another star.

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Speaker 3: But suddenly, bang, after nine minutes of part time and

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Speaker 3: one hundred years somewhere else, I'm back in the body

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Speaker 3: of a frightened kid in a bed in an operating room.

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Speaker 3: And we didn't have Ray Moody's phrase near death experience

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Speaker 3: back then. It was die and come back. That's the

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Speaker 3: way I was talked about, and we didn't have sympathetic

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Speaker 3: people in the add out community to listen to my stories.

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Speaker 3: Our poor kid, it must be the medication. He's hallucinating.

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Speaker 3: The first person who could validate and confirm what I

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Speaker 3: had been through was an Aboriginal kid, and we weren't

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Speaker 3: we do that. We get sick, we go and live

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Speaker 3: with the spirits. We've come back. Sometimes we're the same

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Speaker 3: and sometimes we're not well. So I had to look

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Speaker 3: lay quiet about that for a while. I came from

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Speaker 3: a conservative military family. You didn't talk about dreams and visions.

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Speaker 3: But I knew, I mean I knew completely from age nine.

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Speaker 3: Because of that their wills beyond the physical. I knew

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Speaker 3: to pick up on your last guest. But consciousness precedes

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Speaker 3: to one body, and it survived soul. Consciousness survives the

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Speaker 3: death of one body. I knew it's not weird to

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Speaker 3: ancestors and so on. So that's where I start from

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Speaker 3: as a dreamer. These are things I've known through experience

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Speaker 2: And Robert Day, what was your midlife career before you

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Speaker 3: Well, I've been a successful journalist. I was a best

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Speaker 3: I was bored. It looks like somebody else's dream. But

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Speaker 3: my legs. And on that land, I started dreaming of

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Speaker 3: the ancestors of the land, of an Irishman who came

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Speaker 3: I have a distant genealogical connection, and other connections. I

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Speaker 3: I through synchronicity and through hard work and through scholarship

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Speaker 3: me she would never translate. I understood, for example, that

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Speaker 3: ontnunk had a meaning. It meant the secret wish of

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Speaker 3: the soul, especially as revealed in dreams. And I understood

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Speaker 3: that in her tradition of dreaming and healing, what we

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Speaker 3: need to do is listen carefully, tenderly to dreamers, see

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Speaker 3: what their soul, what their greatest self, if you like,

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Speaker 3: I also learned from her tradition learnt again the dreaming

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Speaker 3: they were very fierce warriors. They held their own with

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Speaker 3: I learned two vital things about dreaming known I think

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Speaker 3: to all our ancestors. But it's about soul. And yes,

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Speaker 3: this life and has a destiny beyond this life. That's

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Speaker 3: a rather important thing to know. That you're connected to

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Speaker 3: your previous guest again, our dreams show us not only

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Speaker 3: or the spirits of nature, or the ancestors, and it

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Speaker 2: Good for you, Robert. I have used dreams to manifest

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Speaker 2: things that I want to happen in my life, and

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Speaker 2: I've used it all the time. When I sometimes wanted

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Speaker 2: a job in my earlier days, I'd concentrate on the

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Speaker 2: and sure enough, within a day or two, that person

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Speaker 2: What did I do right?

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Speaker 3: So you belong to the school of Mark Twain? Remember

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Speaker 3: Mark Twain. Mark Twain was the world class prema. People

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Speaker 3: don't know enough about him. He practiced what he called

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Speaker 3: he would write a letter, but never send the letter,

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Speaker 3: but he'd focus on that person that way. I'd wait

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Speaker 3: Fred Myers. We sometimes forget talking about science that there've

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Speaker 3: the Victorian era when the first professor of anthropology at

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Speaker 3: Oxford University, who used the racist colonial language of his time, said, actually,

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Speaker 3: these savages, you know, these savages, they knew things we

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Speaker 3: origin before physical life. We've fallen from that high knowledge

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Speaker 3: that smart dreamers have always known about. And that's I

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Speaker 3: suppose partly why you're leading a dream life, George.

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Speaker 1: I love it.

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Speaker 2: There are so many different kinds of dreams. We'll talk

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Speaker 2: about all of them tonight. Robert Moss our special guest.

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Speaker 2: He's got a number of books out, including his latest

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Speaker 2: dot com. How many people do not pay attention to

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Speaker 2: the messages in their dreams, Robert, Well, we have.

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Speaker 3: To consider all the people who are not in touch

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Speaker 3: at what's going on. And indeed, we'll find quite a

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Speaker 3: the people who analyze brainways and sleep rabs, labs and

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Speaker 3: number of hours a night at least to say three hours.

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Speaker 3: Maybe we're dreaming all the time. So but a lot

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Speaker 3: of people who don't know how to look at the

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Speaker 3: That's something I've tried to correct. I came up with

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Speaker 3: needs to be well intentioned and ready to, you know,

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Speaker 3: to avoid it? Maybe there's something worth researching in your

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Speaker 3: I need a royal road to lucid dreaming. Suppose you've

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Speaker 1: Or your life or your life or your life exactly.

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Speaker 3: something else that's got some juice for you. As maybe

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Speaker 2: What about some people, Robert, who just can't remember their dreams.

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Speaker 3: You say I'd like guidance on such as I'd like

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Speaker 3: Then the game is you go out into the world,

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Speaker 3: paying attention to synchronicity, that's what this is about. To

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Speaker 3: borrow Jung's word, your dream figot opens. Can I tell

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Speaker 2: Please, we've got some time. Go ahead.

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Speaker 3: whether my job is faith. Okay, I said, you've got

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Speaker 3: I'd like Johns and my own guidance and my job.

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Speaker 3: She decided, go out into the street and see what

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Speaker 3: When she comes back the following week, she tells us

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Speaker 3: her off the road. Did you get the message? I say, yes,

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Speaker 3: the job is blown. But Robert, what happened when I

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Speaker 3: Oh to give us one. Oh yeah, Well, I'm living

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Speaker 3: somewhere else, maybe Washington, d C. I'm organizing conference on transportation.

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Speaker 3: I said, could you go to Washington, d C. Yes,

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Speaker 3: I've got a friend there. Do you know think about

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Speaker 3: conferences on transportation? All I know about transportation is driving

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Speaker 3: But she says, but my work essentially consists of organizing conferences.

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Speaker 3: checks out the job market. Six months later, she got

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Speaker 3: is very good news because her job in state government

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Speaker 3: department no longer exists, So there you are. That's a

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Speaker 3: story about the practicality. It's also a story about how

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Speaker 3: encourage your dream producers to talk to you a bit

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Speaker 2: You mentioned a car crash. If somebody has a dream,

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Speaker 2: is it our obligation to tell that friend we had

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Speaker 1: Of a dream.

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Speaker 3: Well not unless you are able to check out the

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Speaker 3: information and get specific detail. If you just say, guess what,

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Speaker 3: I'm terribly sorry, I saw you in a car crash,

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Speaker 3: if you have specific information, on the other hand, because

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Speaker 3: be careful, you know what, driving in Minneapolis, because on

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Speaker 3: this particular part of town I saw a truck run

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Speaker 3: you've got information like that and you have good relations

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Speaker 3: with that person, I would be in favorite passing it

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Speaker 3: onto them, but not as some generalized, vague, muddy kind

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Speaker 2: Interesting take, you're you're right, because you could be manifesting

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Speaker 3: Yes, you say you've got you've got to just work

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Speaker 3: is this about me? I think it's about my friend,

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Speaker 3: but really is my friend like me in some way?

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Speaker 3: Do we behave like each other under some circumstances? I mean,

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Speaker 3: you can't rule out that the dream is about you.

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Speaker 3: That Freud didn't understand and the most famous dream that

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Speaker 3: he ever interpreted of the dream might be about him

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Speaker 3: would have alerted him to the oral cancer that killed

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Speaker 3: him twenty eight years later. Is a tragic story, one

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Speaker 3: that isn't well enough and well enough known. And I

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Speaker 3: write about my book The Secret History of Dreaming, So

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Speaker 3: we always have to pause and say, actually, this is

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Speaker 3: about me. And we've also got to pause, as we

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Speaker 3: said earlier, and say, actually, is this more literal or symbolic?

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Speaker 3: Is this a literal car crash or is it a

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Speaker 3: symbolic car crash. If we feel it's a literal car crash,

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