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by blamazon 772 days ago
> The rational, executive network in the brain is switched off, and the imaginative, visual and emotional parts are dialled way up. As a result, the dreaming mind is given free rein in a way that has no parallel in our waking lives. We couldn’t think this way when we are awake even if we tried.

I read this and felt compelled to say this reminds me of how psychedelics like LSD and psilocybin work :)