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 No.169[Reply]

I'm a male on my early thirties. Since I far as I a remember I have dreams where I am woman, and these dreams use to be very relaxing, to the point that the conscious me wishes they would never end.
They are nice dreams, but I wake up feeling hollow an miserly. Does anyone here has something similar?
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 No.930

I was naturally androgynous during my teens that even grown men tend to mistake me for a teen girl. I was never a fag tho.

I do have dreams like these, I found them refreshing as it was a different experience to reality.

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 No.1425

OP here; I have spent a long time thinking about this; I have an hypothesis.
During all my life I've never had a single male true friend; all my friends were girls. I was one of the girls, until puberty kicked in, and I found myself alone. I got another set of female friends, but most of them were not much interested in real friendship, they mostly wanted a chance to get me as a boyfriend.
If I were one of the girls, literally, I wouldn't have spent so many years alone. At least that's my hypothesis.

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 No.1699

I used to get these dreams as a kid. there was one that I had just getting into my teen years where I was a girl and had sex with my friend from childhood. it was nice
>tfw can't be cute forever

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 No.1715

Sometimes I become males in my dreams but it isn't me as the guy, I just turn into another guy.
Then I drive cars, film a documentary, rand stuff like that.

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 No.1716

>>1425 The original post sounds like a case of lack of sense of identify manifesting in the form of gender dysphoria being conveyed to you in dreams. Little odd sounding I know, but from what you said about making friends growing up it makes sense.

Personally, I've always had trouble making friends with other men as well and in middle school my close friends were women. Some people are just biologically programmed to be like this, I remember reading something about how genders can be classified as your true gender then the gender that your personality is (I can't remember the name of it for the life of me). Personally, because I have a higher introspective intelligence I am male + female. Maybe that's the case for you as well?


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 No.420[Reply]

Post in this thread every time you remember your dream.

I'll start.
First I was with a friend at my house living room, and we were talking about the NASA and that they were encovering alien encounters, and then we heard a noise out there, and we went out to see. We saw some sky activity, and we were lured to a place similar to central park, where there were other people attracted by the same thing. Then a big spaceship descended on a mechanism that opened the ground and revealed a structure beneath it. A rather small hole opened in the center and a bunch of floating platforms lead to the inside of it, and a penguin came jumping out of nowhere and went in the spaceship, I was the first to follow and nobody else seemed to dare.
Then I was in the middle of some big round room surrounded by little rooms, I went in there and suddenly I had most of my belongings (namely, my blankets) and there was a bed, so I put my blankets on the bed, the room was as little as a prison cell though I didn't think of it that way. I went out and there was a round table in the middle of the big room I mentioned before, and people were sitting around it, about 20 or 30, and we were waiting for the aliens to come and we'd have some kind of meeting. But they never arrived, and we started talking, and there was Ritchie Valens (a latin rock&roll singer who's dead now) and a long dead politician from my country, who was drunk as fuck and he was crawling funny, lifting his legs. I went back to my room and I saw my friend from the first part of the dream, and we went to my room and a guy followed, and invited us to a party in his room. That's about when I woke up.
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 No.1519

In this dream I'm either going to high school or college in a reality where minor spacetime anomalies are almost as common as thunderstorms, and I have a cute planeswalker gf. When I make it to about the third floor of my school (buildings tend to be bigger in my dreams) and there was some sort of bomb threat during an anomaly. Space sort of weakened except in areas with a high concentration of people so the faculty basically huddled a couple dozen people in the middle of the hall to make sure the ground under us stayed solid until the anomaly passed. Nothing ever really came of the bomb threat for one reason or another. Planeswalker gf senses the anomaly I guess and shows up at my school to try to correct it. She uses her powers to navigate the sections of the school that are barely there and reach the mass of people on the third floor and rescue them, the day is saved etc. etc.
but when I get to where my car was parked, all the cars had been switched around and the keys to the car that was formerly in a given spot were in the engine compartment of the car that was currently in that spot, so the "bomb threat" was more like an "exploit the chaos to fuarrrk with everyone's cars" threat. The students and staff eventually get it taken care of and most people leave early after that.

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 No.1521

>>1023
>fight evil entity
>can't defeat it
>escape into the future where it runs the world

are you by any chance a Samurai Jack fan?

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 No.1675

Yet another absolutely terrifying nightmare. Everything was a conspiracy and there was a war between Mars and Earth. I had been chosen as a sacrifice to go to and fight them til death. I uncovered the fact that the leader of the Earth's government (a child? At least child-like person/entity) was all-powerful and was in the process of taking over Mars (or something). Now that I was aware of her plans, she began pursuing me. Every time that I thought I got away, she caught back up with me.

When I woke up, I had the most intense hallucination of a malicious entity patting me on the back and a few seconds later, a voice saying something I forgot.

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 No.1681

>>1507
>terrified of a cougar
>see a baby hurt by its mother
>you get hurt by this "cougar"
>have a childhood memory tainted with a forbidden love
I think you know where I'm going with this

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 No.1711

I was watching my brother type in his password to some log in prompt. There was no masking so I saw the actual characters every time. I think he kept on deleting it when he screwed up from typing too fast.


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 No.1167[Reply]

http://io9.com/some-people-cant-conjure-mental-images-are-you-one-of-1713768824
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/23/science/aphantasia-minds-eye-blind.html?_r=0http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0028393209003418
>Aphantasia is a hypothesized neurological condition where a person does not possess a functioning mind's eye. The term was first suggested in a 2015 study for a specific kind of visual agnosia.
It feels weirdly appropriate to talk about this here.

I've never been able to picture things, weirdly enough my dreams are of concepts, i don't "see" anything.
I could perfectly describe to you what happens in the few dreams i remember, but i can't for the hell of me visualize it.

Figured it was just because i don't have a visual memory, but apparently it's just the tip of the iceberg.

What's your opinion of it?
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 No.1485

>>1173

Lol @ that people taking "mind's eye" out of context. They're talking about mental visualization, not the spiritual eye a.k.a. "third eye."

Do you need this soykaf spelled out to you literally?

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 No.1486

>>1172
I used to have a something very similar, it was deeply related to my anxiety.

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 No.1490

>>1171
>not knowing what a mind's eye is
Are you ESL? "Mind's eye" is the term for how you can visualize things in your head.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind%27s_eye

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 No.1492

>>1171
>pineal gland

Fucking peasant.

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 No.1695

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Anyone else really bothered by this? I still don't understand how this is supposed to work. The last time I researched this I thought it's just a vague feel rather than an image. And now it's a fuarrrking image you're supposed to see?

I don't know if I lack this ability or not. Or just to some extent.


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 No.1678[Reply]

Do your dreams ever "continue" where they left off last night? I seem to carry on having dreams where I am a nazi officer and I go on adventures with Hitler and other officers. I always wake up when the star of david is shown, it has become a motif in all my dreams lately. I am not sure what this means.
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 No.1679

I have no idea what it could mean, but it's probably just that you're reading too much /pol/ soykaf on chans.

>>1678
>I always wake up when the star of david is shown

This part is really cool, though, tbh

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 No.1682

>go on adventures with hitler and other officers

my fuarrrking sides. why do i find this line so funny?

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 No.1684

In a past life you were Hitler's grammar nazi

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 No.1685

I wish this would happen. The closest I get is when I have an altered version of the dream borrowing elements from it's predecessor.
Although, I know someone who allegedly has dreams that restart and continuously add to the initial dream story about every four years.

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 No.1694

Only four times I've had dreams that recall previous dreams. It's just the places, sadly, but it creates a powerful feeling of déjà vu, and even has confused me irl


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 No.1448[Reply]

Anyone else, after recording your dreams, notice any dreaming trends or common traits?

For me my dreams typically always end directly prior to the climax- just as things become intensely interesting I awaken.
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 No.1594

Lately I've been seeing a bunch of construction mounds in mine. I'm assuming it's like video games where there's construction in a new area or a renovation since my dreamland is always the same. By the coast, a fair near the beach, a huge mall with a mini amusement park arcade thing by a sea world-esque aquarium. There's a school in the western part of it and ghetti in the north. I live in the ghetto but I'm almost never in it (because I can "fly"/jump really high so I'm alwayd in close proximity to everything and it's cheaper to live there I guess).
Also, most of my dreams are of me being gangstalked. First it was some anti-zombie cult, then black men with white shirts, now the Arab American cult.

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 No.1677

my dreams never really "start" and rarely "end" - it's more of a transition from my falling asleep state to dreaming

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 No.1686

>>1594
>my dreamland is always the same
Really? Has it always been like this?

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 No.1689

>>1686
No, I remember when I was younger I would skip from being a pirate on the seas to some weird stalactites stalagmites cavern thing (like the Ant Tunnel from Maplestory), then to random places like different schools, never the same school, though. They still had the stalking element to it but it wasn't the main part of the thought.
I didn't start keeping a dream diary until like last month but if I were to date when the dreamworld started being largely concrete it would be about 3 years ago, I think.

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 No.1693

In Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming, by Stephen LaBerge, there are classified types of patterns to look for in a dream, in order to become aware of dreaming. It explores all of the details in my recorded dreams: whether there is a change in your environment (being in an uncommon or unknown place), in your relationship with the people you know (your mother is your boss), and the feelings or abilities you have (feeling sad, being able to fly an airplane).

After logging my dreams for three months, the most recurring pattern is being in unknown places: a hookers alley near a factory, a small park near my hometown, a series of connected backyards. Of course, reaching awareness is still my goal, because feeling almost always that there's something due today distracts me.


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 No.102[Reply]

Does anyone else take Melatonin before bed? I specifically do it because when i wake up im still semi asleep. I am aware of my state but I cant move my body.
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 No.1574

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>>1573
i'm waiting for my seeds to sprout, in the midtime i'm just taking my tea with drops i bought in a fair near my house where i buy my teas/herbs.

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 No.1575

I have been taking melatonin pretty much every night for a year. The pills I get from wal-mart are 6mg melatonin and 25mg L-theanine.

It doesn't cause sleep paralysis and I don't think my dreams are any different. I see people complaining of grogginess, but I always feel like absolute soykaf for an hour or two after I wake up with or without the melatonin.

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 No.1687

>>1572
I don't understand what you're getting at.

Valerian contains unknown psychoactive substances that act as a sedative. Studies show that valerian is arguably effective as a hypnotic and can exhibit withdrawal symptoms similar to those of benzos. Most of the studies published on valerian are either non-scientific or result in insufficient evidence for any positive effects.
Melatonin is an isolated neurohormone that helps to regulate the circadian rhythm and can act as a sedative in higher doses. Melatonin has no addiction potential and only has a few mild side effects, the worst of which is grogginess the morning-after. Melatonin has already had plenty of professional scientific studies proving its' efficacy.

Both are available over the counter just about anywhere. Having read summaries of the drugs, do you understand why doctors suggest melatonin rather than valerian?
You're more of a "consumer whore" for buying and eating a risky herb because of homeopathic jibberjabber than you would be for buying a proven-effective supplement because of pharmacist recommendation.

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 No.1688

>>1687
This. This exactly. People try a little too hard to be different, when the proven method is popular because it's effective.

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 No.1692

>>1575
>I always feel like absolute soykaf for an hour or two after I wake up
look up sleep apnea. you may have it.


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 No.1598[Reply]

It seems like every dream I have these days features, at some point, a very sexually forward woman.

It will never be the same woman as far as I can tell but it often plays out the same.
There will be some group of people in my life. I'll know most, if not all of them.
One of them will have brought along a friend who will be immediately and overtly sexually interested in me.
She will playfully flirt in front of the group and go so far as things that could be considered foreplay such a licking skin.

I will find this weird, as will the group, but no one will say anything.
I'll be flattered but ignore it while we get back to the task at hand, be that talking or going somewhere ect.

I will NEVER sleep with the woman, she may or may not disappear later.
The dream may then be relieved to be a nightmare or some random mess, and will leave me very confused when I wake how sexy imagery keeps getting paired with horror imagery in the same dream.
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 No.1637

>>1598
It's obviously a succubus trying to steal you soul. Spread salt around your room before you go to sleep.

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 No.1647

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>>1634
The thought of sleeping with her never occurs to me.
They can even go extremely far (i.e. me performing oral sex on her) but I'll never actually sleep with her. My pants never even come off.

I think envy might be a good keyword. Wanting to not only be desired, but to be SEEN to be desired by my peers.
In my life right now lots of people are getting married, maybe this woman is an over-compensation of wanting to evoke the jealously I so often feel in others.

Or maybe it is a succubus.

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 No.1648

>>1647
Does that ring true to you? Or does it sound hollow?

The interpretation of dreams is more art than science, consistent reoccurring elements like this are often meaningful but what they mean is unique to the individual. Fortunately, because it's your subconscious creating these dreams it can also help to interpret them. When you hit on the right answer it will feel right. Your subconscious knows what these dreams mean and it wants you to know, which is why you're having the dreams in the first place.

If you really are having problems with jealousy, you should take stock of what you have in your life. For any path that we choose, many more are closed off to us and they all have their advantages and disadvantages. So the next time you find yourself flirting with random women or staying out until 4am or even just being a bit of a slob, remind yourself that you wouldn't be able to do these things if you were married. The path you've chosen has its advantages and the friends around you tying the knot are probably just as jealous of them when they look at you.

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 No.1649

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>>1648
It's hard to separate indoctrination from genuine emotion. We're often told that marriage is the soundest path, that it should be an end aspiration for our lives.
But there's no denying that at 22, I feel a lot of my friend's eyes are bigger than their stomachs.

It's certainly been a long time since I've been with a woman, emotionally and physically.
And I've never had the pleasure of "showing off" a relationship (previous ones being very detached from my main social life, such as at work)

I'm sure, in no small part, the idea of HER being forward is very appealing. As I undeniably have trouble with confidence and romantic interaction.
A nonchalant approach could be a desire of how I wish I was (I.E so confident, that a woman licking my neck is no big deal and I can idly joke with others about it.)

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 No.1650

This seems to be all about confidence


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 No.1600[Reply]

I'm learning English and i want have practice with English. Who can help me with this?
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 No.1631

>>1629
>>1630
you two could find a buddy on the interwebs (or even in this thread) from USAUSAUSA!!! and ask him to add you on tox/jabber/whatever

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 No.1632

>>1631
Good idea. I can understand pretty well but I have troubles when I have to express my thoughts.

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 No.1633

>>1632
(I'm not >>1631)
Which is why you speak with a native speaker, as long as you are willing to be corrected a little.

They can correct your English grammar or spelling, tell you a different way to say something, or just help you practice having a more neutral accent. :3

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 No.1635

Moved to >>>/r/16495.

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 No.1636

Moved to >>>/r/16528.


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 No.1568[Reply]

Maybe this is a thread more suited for /lam/, but as I don't intend to extend that much on the programming side of it I'll post it here.

I thought this morning about building a Sqlite database interface in Python (ncurse or web-based), which could be a nice programming project and something useful for me or other dreamers.

So far my main concern is the database structure, and I would like suggestions about it. How would you organize it? I don't have any idea about something that would need more than a single table. I started with something very simple :

*Date
*Tags / Key-words
*Dream themes
*"Dream signs (don't remember how Laberge call this, but basically what signs that show we are experiencing a dream)
*Lucid or not (bool)
*Title
*Content
...

What can I add? What kind of functions can I implement?
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 No.1569

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Schway idea.

Graphs would be pretty cool, like a column graph showing the quantity of instances of a certain dream theme. Of course just sorting them by number of appearances would work too. That helps a lot because that way you may see that you dream a lot about dolphins, and next time you see one you might get lucid. Isn't that what you call dream signs?
More info about lucidity could be useful, like how you got lucid, did it last until you decided to wake up, why did it end, etc.
An option to read a random dream, reading them helps remembering them.
Also date AND time of dreams.
I don't know about how to store it in the database, but it should be exportable to an easy to backup file, maybe encrypted.

>*title
Sounds fun.

Will it be free software?

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 No.1576

>>1569

Very nice suggestions, thanks.

>Will it be free software?
Of course. I'll put it on my (for now empty) Github account as soon as I'll have something working.

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 No.1577

>>1569
>Isn't that what you call dream signs?

Not quite. I don't have the book at hand right now, but it's a categorization of the kind of signs that make it clear that we're in a dream world. Those signs are related to self (ex: your gender have changed), the setting (ex: Your in the space), your action or those of others (ex : You're flying), etc. You can realize that you're dreaming if you spot recurring dream themes (like dolphin), but it's not always obvious and unrealistic (ex: dreaming about work or school if you're still a student)

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 No.1579

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>>1576

Sounds radical OP.
I find myself using pic related often myself.
A version for my main machine would be really nice to have.

If I may make a suggestion, it would be to support advanced data records or just multiple sets of time-data for one dream episode.

Why? Because in theory one could use a piezo element as a pick-up for any signals directly on the beds frame. Saw a TV documentary not too long ago in which scientists used one in conjunction with a Rigol DSO to pinpoint REM phases.

That being said, I might want to try and whip a similar setup up in GNU Octave sometime soon just to verify this claim and see where it goes.

To the organizing part, I would suggest something like this from the top of my head:
It's some bullsoykaf pseudocode but it gets the point across I recon

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 No.1590

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>>1579
>It's some bullsoykaf pseudocode but it gets the point across I recon

That's way, way better than what i came up with. I suck at programming but I also still have to learn a lot of thing with databases.

I write that down, thanks you very much for this suggestion.


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 No.14[Reply]

i saw an evil pig face in my dream, and as i woke up, i herd a loud screech and bang. Now, i remember it as if i was awake, but dreams are funny like that. has anyone else experienced this?
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 No.1501

>>1484
>4/20

I can't help but snicker

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 No.1536

>>1472
Not at all. It's fuarrrk ing awful.

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 No.1555

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>>14
>>1468

The only thing close to such a thing I experienced was a weird fuarking ending to an otherwise good dream.

While still asleep, my mind suddenly overdubbed my dream with a silent voice whispering some shit, lights fading, then suddenly yelling strongly "~x" while mentally flashing me a skull. The whole thing felt loud as hell.

Next thing I know, crashed my floorlamp made of glass next to my bed from violently waking up.

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 No.1557

thats scerry as fuarrrk OP

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 No.1561

>>14
>>1464

I had a string of nightmares where the Pighead from Saw would be hiding in my slightly ajar closet. Whenever I put pressure on the door to close it, Pighead would rush out and pin me to the wall squealing and I'd wake up after a couple seconds of being pinned to the wall.

Had that dream on and off for about a month or so last year. Hasn't happened since.


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