One practical way to do this is to look at other people on occasion and ask yourself whether you are really seeing them or just your thoughts about them. Sometimes our thoughts and opinions act like dream glasses. When we have them on, we see dream children, dream husband, dream wife, dream partner, dream job, dream colleagues, dream friends. We can live in a dream present for a dream future. Without knowing it, we are coloring everything, putting our spin on it all. Although things in the dream may change and give the illusion of being vivid and real, it is still a dream we are caught in. But
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