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Yes, I feel like my dreams are more clear and I remember them better. Also I feel like my dreams try to tell me something important. But maby it's just because I have always had times when I see more clear dreams and then I have times when I can't remember my dreams, I don't know.
I have same feeling about waiting something surprising to happen.
This may not be your reason but I noticed if I sleep, wake up, and go back to sleep I'm more likely to remember my dreams and have more vivid dreams the second time. Maybe I'm more conscious since I already slept some?

As the Bible mentions, “’In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams." So I do wonder if dreams are sending a message but usually mine aren't too insightful.
 
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It feels like the world of fiction is merging with reality...
Fiction once looked ahead (especially science fiction) and oddly the world caught up later and as a result started using the concepts of science fiction and 1984 as their own. Then along comes a guy like Musk who says it it time to abandon traditional thinking and start from scratch and that is what he has done. Too bad the world leaders don't take that approach but they are still trying to take over the world the old school ways. It is hard for the world to admit that we have it all backwards, so it just keeps trying to improve while driving in reverse.
 
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This may not be your reason but I noticed if I sleep, wake up, and go back to sleep I'm more likely to remember my dreams and have more vivid dreams the second time. Maybe I'm more conscious since I already slept some?

As the Bible mentions, “’In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams." So I do wonder if dreams are sending a message but usually mine aren't too insightful.

Yes, I believe so that many people will have meaningful dreams and visions. But I haven't had prophetic dreams (yet) but very vivid dreams which give me the idea of them having maby important message.
 
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Someone said in Instagram that people are living in two different realities, I don't know if it's because of that or what.
I was listening to the Jefferson Hour with guest Lindsay Chervinsky. She mentioned the current lack of respect for expertise. For whatever reasons, it is true. We believe anyone.
 
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Or perhaps, a lot of people don't believe anyone, no matter their credentials? Everything is a conspiracy theory, nobody can be trusted, etc. etc.

I don't know what the answer is, except perhaps better education.

Meanwhile I'm pondering how we can help people build a spirituality that is open to the new things God brings. Maybe that's not so unrelated, after all.
 
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Fiction once looked ahead (especially science fiction) and oddly the world caught up later and as a result started using the concepts of science fiction and 1984 as their own. Then along comes a guy like Musk who says it it time to abandon traditional thinking and start from scratch and that is what he has done. Too bad the world leaders don't take that approach but they are still trying to take over the world the old school ways. It is hard for the world to admit that we have it all backwards, so it just keeps trying to improve while driving in reverse.
A lot of it is the rapid advancement of technology. Feels like a movie because we saw it in movies first. China is launching trials for robotaxis where the cars drive themselves. I get the impression Elon Musk is a smart dude but merging with machines like he's brought up is risky at best.
 
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For whatever reasons, it is true. We believe anyone.
We used to consider only politicians and snake oil salesmen as liars. But they have expanded their empires to include education and media, in other words just about everything. As a result of not knowing what to believe we give up trying. But more so, they don't have to hide their nefarious ways and agendas any longer because no one knows what is truth, which leads to not knowing right from wrong. But then again, mankind has always since the Garden self determined what is good and evil to suit their desires.
 
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but merging with machines like he's brought up is risky at best.
But that is where we become gods and say let us make machines in our own image, indeed hybrids of materials and our consciousness. Of course what happens is the machines become self aware, start wearing fig leaves, and the whole thing starts all over again.
 
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But that is where we become gods and say let us make machines in our own image, indeed hybrids of materials and our consciousness. Of course what happens is the machines become self aware, start wearing fig leaves, and the whole thing starts all over again.
The thing is, we can't say with 100% certainty that at least some supernatural beings aren't in reality an advanced machine or cyborg with technology that allows it to shapeshift, teleport, etc. Elon Musk said something about simulation theory. How if we keep making more advanced games, how can we be sure our reality isn't someone's game or simulation.
 
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We used to consider only politicians and snake oil salesmen as liars. But they have expanded their empires to include education and media, in other words just about everything. As a result of not knowing what to believe we give up trying. But more so, they don't have to hide their nefarious ways and agendas any longer because no one knows what is truth, which leads to not knowing right from wrong. But then again, mankind has always since the Garden self determined what is good and evil to suit their desires.

Nah, the lack of knowing God and worshipping God leads to worshipping politicians, doctors, tv news, and you believe anybody who gives you some kind of explanation with trigger words such "expertise" "doctors" "lawyer" "microbiologist" "science" and so on... It's lack of God and God's wisdom lack of discernment of good and evil.

James 3:17 - But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

Proverbs 3:13-18 - Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding.
* Notice: HAPPY is the man that findeth wisdom.
Wisdom won't bring you misery but makes you calm and happy.
 
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Nah, the lack of knowing God and worshipping God leads to worshipping politicians, doctors, tv news, and you believe anybody who gives you some kind of explanation with trigger words such "expertise" "doctors" "lawyer" "microbiologist" "science" and so on... It's lack of God and God's wisdom lack of discernment of good and evil.

James 3:17 - But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

Proverbs 3:13-18 - Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding.
* Notice: HAPPY is the man that findeth wisdom.
Wisdom won't bring you misery but makes you calm and happy.
Not at all into the disparagement of people whove put in a life of effort to understand the world around us.

Nor are their efforts opposed to what we call wisdom.
 
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Or perhaps, a lot of people don't believe anyone, no matter their credentials? Everything is a conspiracy theory, nobody can be trusted, etc. etc.

I don't know what the answer is, except perhaps better education.

Meanwhile I'm pondering how we can help people build a spirituality that is open to the new things God brings. Maybe that's not so unrelated, after all.

We should acknowledge that we really deal a lot with probability. Uncertainty exists and often is the dominant reality. And yet we do have some degree of "evidence based" theories. When it comes to spirituality I think the key issue is being able to let go of our views when reason points another direction. but instead, we cling to our particular views and seek out support for them while ignoring or discounting evidence that they may be wrong. This relates to humility, to dying to self. "Maybe someone with credentials does know more than I. But wait, let me find someone with credentials who can support my views."
 
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