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Episode 42 - The Dreams we Cannot Explain! · RealTalkwithMikeD

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Real Talk with Mike D.
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  Speaker 2: Alright, welcome back to Real Talk with Mike D. I
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  Speaker 2: am the one, the only, and the original Mike D.
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  Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen, I have a great one for you
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  Speaker 2: this morning. Today we're going to talk about the dreams
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  Speaker 2: we cannot explain. Have you ever had a dream that
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  Speaker 2: felt so real that when you woke up for a
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  Speaker 2: few seconds you didn't know where you were? You open
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  Speaker 2: your eyes, you look around the room, your heart is
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  Speaker 2: beating fast, and you're trying to figure out, was that
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  Speaker 2: a dream or did that really happen?
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  Speaker 1: And it hits you. It was a dream. But the emotions,
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  Speaker 1: those were real.
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  Speaker 2: The fear was real. The sadness was real. The love
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  Speaker 2: and the pain were also real.
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  Speaker 1: And sometimes.
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  Speaker 2: That's what makes dreams so powerful. Because when we're awake,
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  Speaker 2: we can hide. We can put on a smile. We
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  Speaker 2: can tell people we're okay.
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  Speaker 1: We can go to work. We can answer the phone.
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  Speaker 1: We can laugh and we can say, I'm good.
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  Speaker 2: Even when we're not. But when we fall asleep, sometimes
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  Speaker 2: the walls come down. And the things we've been pushing
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  Speaker 2: away all day come looking for us. And that's what
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  Speaker 2: I want to talk about today. I want to talk
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  Speaker 2: about dreams. Not the funny ones. Not the dreams where
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  Speaker 2: you're flying through the sky or showing up to work
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  Speaker 2: without your pants on. I'm talking about the dreams that
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  Speaker 2: hit you right in the chest. The ones that make
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  Speaker 2: you wake up and stare at the ceiling. The ones
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  Speaker 2: that make you think about somebody you haven't seen in years.
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  Speaker 2: The ones that bring back memories you thought you finally buried.
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  Speaker 2: The ones where you see somebody you love. And just
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  Speaker 2: for a few minutes, you get them back. And then
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  Speaker 2: you wake up, and poof, they're gone again. That's a
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  Speaker 2: different kind of pain. Because sometimes a dream can give
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  Speaker 2: you something reality can't. One more conversation, one more hug,
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  Speaker 2: one more laugh, one more moment. Maybe you dream about
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  Speaker 2: somebody you've lost. Maybe they're sitting across from you. Maybe
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  Speaker 2: you're talking like nothing ever happened. Maybe you're laughing together.
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  Speaker 2: And in that dream, you don't remember that they're gone.
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  Speaker 2: You don't remember the funeral. You don't remember the goodbye.
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  Speaker 2: You don't remember the empty chair. You just remember them.
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  Speaker 2: And for a few moments, they're there. Then you wake
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  Speaker 2: up and reality comes rushing back. And you're lying there thinking,
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  Speaker 2: why couldn't I stay asleep? I've got to tell you,
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  Speaker 2: I think those dreams can hurt like hell. But maybe
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  Speaker 2: there's something beautiful about them too. Because the people we
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  Speaker 2: love don't just disappear from us. They become memories. They
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  Speaker 2: become stories. They become pieces of who we are. And
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  Speaker 2: sometimes our sleeping minds bring those pieces back to us.
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  Speaker 2: Not necessarily because the dream is some supernatural message. But
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  Speaker 2: because that person mattered. Because that relationship mattered. Because that
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  Speaker 2: memory is still somewhere inside of you. And maybe, just maybe,
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  Speaker 2: your brain is reminding you, you haven't forgotten. And then
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  Speaker 2: there are the dreams when you're running. You're running as
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  Speaker 2: fast as you can. Something is behind you. And you
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  Speaker 2: don't know what it is. You just know you have
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  Speaker 2: to get away. And no matter how hard you try,
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  Speaker 2: you can't run fast enough.
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  Speaker 1: Your legs feel heavy. You're exhausted. You're terrified.
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  Speaker 2: You wake up breathing hard. And maybe the thing you're
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  Speaker 2: running from isn't actually a person.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe it's life. Maybe it's stress. Maybe it's your past.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe it's something you don't want to face. Maybe it's
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  Speaker 2: the bills sitting on your kitchen table. Maybe it's a
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  Speaker 2: relationship that's falling apart.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe it's loneliness. Maybe it's grief.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe it's the fear that no matter how hard you work,
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  Speaker 2: you'll never quite get where you want to be. And
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  Speaker 2: isn't that what life can feel like sometimes?
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  Speaker 1: You're running. Running.
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  Speaker 2: And still running. And wondering, when do I finally get
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  Speaker 2: to stop? We spend so much of our lives trying
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  Speaker 2: to keep going. We're told to be strong. We're told
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  Speaker 2: to push through. We're told to stop feeling sorry for ourselves.
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  Speaker 2: We're told that everybody has problems. We're told tomorrow will
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  Speaker 2: be better. But nobody talks about what happens when you
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  Speaker 2: finally get into bed and there's nowhere left to run.
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  Speaker 2: That's when your mind gets quiet enough to speak. Sometimes
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  Speaker 2: what it says, it hurts. It hurts really bad. Maybe
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  Speaker 2: you dream about your childhood. Maybe you see an old house,
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  Speaker 2: an old neighborhood, a school, a person you haven't thought
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  Speaker 2: about in years. And why is that? Maybe because somewhere
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  Speaker 2: inside you, there's still a part of you that remembers
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  Speaker 2: being that person. Before the responsibilities, before the bills, before
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  Speaker 2: the heartbreak, before life got complicated. Before you learn that
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  Speaker 2: not everybody stays. Before you learn that some people leave.
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  Speaker 2: Before you learn that sometimes you can give somebody everything
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  Speaker 2: you have and it still isn't enough. Maybe dreams take
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  Speaker 2: us back because our minds remember things our conscious lives
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  Speaker 2: don't have time to remember. And then there are the
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  Speaker 2: dreams when you're trying to reach someone. calling their name,
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  Speaker 2: you're trying to find them, you're searching through crowds, you're
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  Speaker 2: running down hallways, you're looking through doors, but you can't
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  Speaker 2: quite get to them. You wake up frustrated, maybe even heartbroken.
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  Speaker 1: And you wonder why.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe because there are people in our lives we wish
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  Speaker 2: we could reach. People we wish we could talk to.
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  Speaker 2: People we wish we could fix things with. People we
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  Speaker 2: wish we could apologize to. People we wish we could forgive.
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  Speaker 2: And sometimes people we wish would just walk through the door,
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  Speaker 2: but they don't. And that is one of the hardest
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  Speaker 2: lessons about life. Some doors don't reopen. Some conversations never happen.
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  Speaker 2: And some apologies will never, ever come. Some people never
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  Speaker 2: come back. And sometimes the only place you get to
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  Speaker 2: see them again is.
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  Speaker 1: In your dreams. That's heavy. But it's real.
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  Speaker 2: And that's what we're talking about here on Real Talk
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  Speaker 2: with Mike D. Real life isn't always pretty. Sometimes it's messy.
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  Speaker 2: And sometimes it is painful. Sometimes you wake up in
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  Speaker 2: the morning and you don't feel like getting out of bed.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes you go to work carrying things nobody around you
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  Speaker 2: knows anything about. Sometimes you smile at somebody while your
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  Speaker 2: heart is breaking. And sometimes you go to sleep hoping
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  Speaker 2: your brain will finally give you a break. Well, ladies
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  Speaker 2: and gentlemen, that is going to do it for today.
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  Speaker 2: I hope you enjoyed this.
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  Speaker 1: I know I did.
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  Speaker 2: I love talking about dreams. I love knowing about what
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  Speaker 2: dreams mean. Because we all dream. We've all experienced those dreams.
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  Speaker 2: We've all had those dreams. And we've all felt those emotions.
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  Speaker 2: But as always, I appreciate you being here. I appreciate
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  Speaker 2: you listening. And I will see you all on the
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  Speaker 2: next episode. Thank you.