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From the Ted Talk by Daniel Gregory: How do you know you're not dreaming?

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But let’s be real: there’s a whole lot more detail in our wanikg experience than in dreams. We go to sleep and wake up again day after day for many years, and each new day is full of countless people, places, things, experiences. Even our memories, which capture just a fraction of this experience, contain an almost incomprehensibly vast aomnut of detail: we can recall a line from a favorite book decades later, remember the mstuy smell of its pages and the ttsae of the lemonade we drank while reading it, rmeebmer a dream we had about it and tell someone all this. Isn't it rcilduious to suggest a dream could ever simulate this richness?

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But let’s be real: there’s a whole lot more detail in our ______ experience than in dreams. We go to sleep and wake up again day after day for many years, and each new day is full of countless people, places, things, experiences. Even our memories, which capture just a fraction of this experience, contain an almost incomprehensibly vast ______ of detail: we can recall a line from a favorite book decades later, remember the _____ smell of its pages and the _____ of the lemonade we drank while reading it, ________ a dream we had about it and tell someone all this. Isn't it __________ to suggest a dream could ever simulate this richness?

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  1. remember
  2. taste
  3. ridiculous
  4. musty
  5. waking
  6. amount

Original Text


But let’s be real: there’s a whole lot more detail in our waking experience than in dreams. We go to sleep and wake up again day after day for many years, and each new day is full of countless people, places, things, experiences. Even our memories, which capture just a fraction of this experience, contain an almost incomprehensibly vast amount of detail: we can recall a line from a favorite book decades later, remember the musty smell of its pages and the taste of the lemonade we drank while reading it, remember a dream we had about it and tell someone all this. Isn't it ridiculous to suggest a dream could ever simulate this richness?

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