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Red Bull Stratos: The Jump That Puts Us On The Path To Dreaming Again

"NASA, as best as I can judge, is a force of nature like none other." Neil deGrasse Tyson, 2010.

On November 20th 1998, the first components of the International Space Station were launched, beginning the mission that continues to this day.  This was the last time that many of us were excited about the exploration of frontiers beyond our grasp.  As Dr. Tyson so eloquently said: "We stopped dreaming." 

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Sleep Mask ‘Remee’ Allows You To Control Your Dreams, Inception-Style

“Dreams feel real when we’re in them. It’s only when we wake up that we realise something was actually strange.”

What if you were able to identify dream from reality? What would you do if that world you’re seeing you knew to be made up of projections of your subconscious? Defined by Lucidnet as a state in which you become “aware that you are dreaming, and when you become aware of your dreams, you can start learning to influence and control [them],” 'lucid dreaming' has been scientifically researched for decades but is still relatively unknown to the average person. But that might well be set to change…

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