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  "path": "/2026/05/new-research-explains-why-your-dreams-feel-so-strange/",
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  "textContent": "BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM There is something that happens in a dream that never happens anywhere else. A familiar place, a workplace or a school corridor, becomes somehow wrong, layered with elements that don’t belong, approached from a direction that doesn’t exist. That sense of wrongness is, it turns out, the point. New […]\n\nThe post New research explains why your dreams feel so strange first appeared on The Optimist Daily: Making Solutions the News.",
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