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Hey, everybody, it's Marielle.
I want to talk about something that I've always found kind of wild.
Every night, bedtime rolls around, right?
We close our eyes, and then we go on adventures in our brains.
Alice Robb is a journalist and the author of the book why we dream.
It's an altered state.
I mean, it's like being on drugs.
Yeah, dreaming is trippy as hell.
Hell.
Everything was very heightened, and it felt very, very sensual, like I was just swimming in a pool.
I dreamt that I was in a hot air balloon with Ronald McDonald.
I just walked by on my horse, trotting along.
They, like, brought me backstage, and then they were like, you're gonna go up on stage while Taylor Swift is singing enchanted, and you're gonna be on a horse.
Like those dipping cups, you know, for your chicken nuggets.
It's that they were pool like.
In ground pools.
They had fairly standard trucks, troll clothes of little pointy hats, and colorful medieval shirts and baggy medieval pants.
And people say dreams are boring.
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