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I have the answer to this one: tell them it came to you in a dream. I’m completely serious https://t.co/SvB5jlLxXC
this has worked for thousands of years. we still don’t really know or understand how precisely dreams work but we know from experience that it’s possible to be psychologically transformed in your sleep https://t.co/p1wgcfoAGS
apparently mesopotamians would tell their bad dreams to a piece of clay then throw it into water, to dissolve the destructive energy of the dream Egypt: also had this sense of "adverse effects of bad dreams". vivid dreams = you're blessed greeks: communion with gods https://t.co/H9VOWCqb2z
I don’t give advice that I don’t use myself https://t.co/uVzEFSQwfP
I *have* actually had labyrinth-related dreams. If you’re really a stickler for being rigorously honest (I respect this) you can prime yourself to dream about something through lots of immersion https://t.co/YiwoQzJRwF
or if you had an experience like, “I was sitting on a park bench thinking about life and suffering and I had a tremendous experience”, you can actually explain that and people do get it if you tell the story with sincerity and conviction