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UFO DREAMS

n her previous column () Jenny Randles discussed the importance of dreams in relation to our perception of reality, and how we all live in a bubble universe of our own making. Such thoughts are reinforced in an article by Robert Lanza MD on the website. He notes that as we go about our everyday lives we automatically process information from all our senses to create our concept of reality, and this is usually separated from the realm of our nocturnal dreams. According to Lanza, in dreams we effortlessly “turn pure information into a

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