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Re:Psychedelic mushrooms put your brain in a “waking dream,”... by thret on Saturday July 05, 2014 @03:30AM (#7991282)
Sleep itself is insane. At least in dreams you're concious more or less, but losing conciousness every night? We'd increase the human lifespan by 50% if we could only eliminate this helpless dependency we have.

http://xkcd.com/203/

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Re:Psychedelic mushrooms put your brain in a “waking dream,”... by cnp on Sunday July 06, 2014 @06:07AM (#7994175)
You don't want to eliminate the source of imagination, do you?
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