Waking consciousness is dreaming – but dreaming constrained by externa…

Oliver Sacks
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Waking consciousness is dreaming – but dreaming constrained by external reality ✨ Oliver Sacks (2012). An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales, p.108, Vintage
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