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The thing about lucid dreams is that it's not like the real world where you are constrained by all sorts of things, including the laws of physics - you can do magic.

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Paul Davies
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: April 22
Cosmologist
Physicist
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London
England
Paul Charles William Davies
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