Sublime

TLKING

NEXTUP—network exploration to understand possibilities.

Stickgold proved that during sleep, on a very deep level we process the experiences and information that we gather while we are awake. When we sleep, and in particular when we dream, the brain goes through the countless things we were exposed to throughout the day—the cars we saw in a parking lot, the story arc of the TV show we watched, the ideas

It was as if this new DMN activity was telling the brain what to work on once it fell asleep.

the dreaming brain was not simply recapitulating or re-creating exactly what happened to them in the maze. Rather, the dream algorithm was cherry-picking salient fragments of the prior learning experience, and then attempting to place those new experiences within the back catalog of preexisting knowledge. Like an insightful interviewer, dreaming ta

The person who has access to his unconscious processes and mines them without getting mired in them can try new approaches, can begin to see things in new ways, and, perhaps, can achieve mastery of his pursuits.

only to find elements from both trips combined into a single dream.