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I suffer from and enjoy an incredibly vivid dream life. A lot of times there is a sort-of narrative and other times they are just funhouses of non-linear imagery and other scary stuff.

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Adam Rapp
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: June 15
Film Director
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