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  2. Dream world (plot device) - Wikipedia

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    It is later revealed in xxxHolic that the dream world itself is its own world, as part of the Clamp multiverse. Similarly, in the Bone graphic novel series by Jeff Smith, the primary plot device is a dream world called "The Dreaming." It exists independently from the real world, and it is described similarly to a river, being said to "flow ...

  3. Simulation hypothesis - Wikipedia

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    Human history is full of thinkers who observed the difference between how things seem and how they might actually be, with dreams, illusions, and hallucinations providing poetic and philosophical metaphors.

  4. List of English-language metaphors - Wikipedia

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    A list of metaphors in the English language organised alphabetically by type. A metaphor is a literary figure of speech that uses an image, story or tangible thing to represent a less tangible thing or some intangible quality or idea; e.g., "Her eyes were glistening jewels".

  5. Dream - Wikipedia

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    A painting depicting Daniel O'Connell dreaming of a confrontation with George IV, shown inside a thought bubble. A dream is a succession of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations that usually occur involuntarily in the mind during certain stages of sleep. [1]

  6. Dreamwork - Wikipedia

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    Dreamwork is the exploration of the images and emotions that a dream presents and evokes. It differs from classical dream interpretation in that it does not attempt to establish a unique meaning for the dream.

  7. Metaphor - Wikipedia

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    A metaphor is a figure of speech that, for rhetorical effect, directly refers to one thing by mentioning another. [1] It may provide (or obscure) clarity or identify ...

  8. World Hypotheses - Wikipedia

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    And depending on the choice of your root metaphor, different criteria exist as to what constitutes good evidence. Pepper presents two types of world hypotheses: inadequate and relatively adequate hypotheses.

  9. Dream Cycle - Wikipedia

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    The Dream Cycle is a series of short stories and novellas by author H. P. Lovecraft [1] (1890–1937). Written between 1918 and 1932, they are about the "Dreamlands", a vast alternate dimension that can only be entered via dreams.