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You Have More Control Over Your Dreams Than You Think

Your waking personality, your relationship with your own mind, and the world you’re living in all leave fingerprints on what happens when you close your eyes.

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Most people wake up, remember a flash of something strange from the night before, and move on with their morning. It’s always, “all I know is that my dreams were weird,” then forgotten by the time you’ve poured your coffee. Science thinks that’s a mistake. 

Researchers at IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca in Italy spent four years collecting over 3,300 dream and waking reports from 207 adults, published in Communications Psychology. Every morning, participants recorded voice memos describing whatever was running through their heads before waking up. Throughout the day, random text message prompts triggered more recordings of their........

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