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Speaker 1: Rosemary Ellen Guiley joining us, author of dream Work for

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Speaker 1: Visionary Living, talking to the Dead, she wrote that with

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Speaker 1: me Encyclopedia of Dreams and so many more. Rosemary, thanks

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Speaker 1: for joining us under this quickly late time preparation. Here

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Speaker 1: we put together. Well, always a pleasure, George, And what

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Speaker 1: better time to talk about dreams in the middle of

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Speaker 1: the night. I know it's perfect. Perfect everybody dreams, not

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Speaker 1: everybody remembers their dreams. How come well, we all have

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Speaker 1: different natural ways of recalling dreams, and some people are

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Speaker 1: very prolific, uh in their dream recall and and other

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Speaker 1: people really struggle to remember things like being interrupted during

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Speaker 1: the sleep cycle, our diet, medications, stress, all of these

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Speaker 1: can have an impact on our ability to recall dreams.

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Speaker 1: There are ways that we can train ourselves to remember

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Speaker 1: more of our dreams, but again it's um it varies

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Speaker 1: considerably by individual and and with these dreams, I mean

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Speaker 1: sometimes I've had dreams where, you know, I wake up

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Speaker 1: and I go, WHOA, was that real? And then you realize, no,

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Speaker 1: it was a dream. I mean, some dreams are so lifelike,

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Speaker 1: aren't they They are, They're very intense, and uh that

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Speaker 1: lucid dreams are very much like that, And that's uh

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Speaker 1: thinking you're awake while you're dreaming. And many dreams have

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Speaker 1: you you feel like you're in waking life instead of dreaming.

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Speaker 1: And I think some of these dreams are actual experiences,

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Speaker 1: maybe in an alternate reality or the astral plane, and

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Speaker 1: others I think are just intense dreams for a variety

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Speaker 1: of reasons, usually emotional ones. When we first met years

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Speaker 1: the Nighthawk. We talked about the book Dictionary of Encyclopedia

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Speaker 1: of Dreams, which you catalogued so many different kinds of dreams.

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Speaker 1: Will take phone calls next hour and help some people out. Um,

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Speaker 1: when you started doing this, what caught you into the

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Speaker 1: dream state? Why? Why did you research this? I got

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Speaker 1: interested in dreams very early in life, through psychic experiences

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Speaker 1: my own and in my family. But in particular, my

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Speaker 1: idea that we could dream a future reality that was

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Speaker 1: send messages to people and get messages. You could go

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Speaker 1: out of body and dreams. And I had enough success

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Speaker 1: the most important states of consciousness we can be and

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Speaker 1: we spend about a third of our lives sleeping and

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Speaker 1: a good part of that time dreaming. And what are

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Speaker 1: we doing during that time? We are having experiences that

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Speaker 1: are meaningful to us in waking life. Let's go through

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Speaker 1: the very as categories of dreams again and talk specifically

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Speaker 1: dreams are They're out there. Well, many of our dreams

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Speaker 1: in life. So dreams like falling, having your teeth fall out,

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Speaker 1: You can change the outcome of that dream, can't you.

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Speaker 1: used dreams to accomplish all kinds of things, Rosemary, and

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Speaker 1: Seems to be working for me. You know, I'll go

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Speaker 1: thinking about that and lo and behold no not at

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Speaker 1: ten times it works, It really does. George and I

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Speaker 1: have been teaching techniques like that to people for four years.

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Speaker 1: Proactive dreaming. Amazing things can be accomplished by setting intentions

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Speaker 1: beyond time and space. So uh, they're like a radar

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Speaker 1: for us. My other favorite dreams are pre cognitive dreams.

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Speaker 1: would suspect that, Um, most people have precognitive dreams throughout

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Speaker 1: small number of individuals dream precognitively regularly. We just simply

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Speaker 1: But from a paranormal perspective, there is another type of

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Speaker 1: are differences in UH these types of dreams. Some dreams

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Speaker 1: can you heal someone or yourself in a dream? There

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Speaker 1: because the ability to manipulate dreams has been known since

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Speaker 1: ancient times that that's when many people are more receptive.

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Speaker 1: spirits to be the message bearers to take certain messages

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