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How different would our perception of reality be if... we discarded the mundane events that cannot coexist with our dreams?

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Robin Hobb
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 5
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Berkeley
California
Margaret Astrid Lindholm Ogden
Megan Lindholm
Margaret Astrid Lindholm
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Mundane
Perception
Dreams
Events
Reality
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Dream
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Discarded

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