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    my sister had a stranger dream

    hello all! my sister called me yesterday and told me about this weird dream she had. not sure if this would be a good group to post it in, but i would appreciate if anyone has any feedback or can tell us what her dream means. i told her to text me the dream, so i can post it lol. she had called me when she first told me what happened. this is her dream: “in my dream i was standing talking to someone and I saw somebody on the floor. they were having a conversation with somebody else as well, there was a mirror in front but I couldn’t really see their face clearly i could only see the back and their shoulder. they’re somewhat sitting crisscross on the floor which was already kinda creepy i tried to get a better look at them to see who they were to which I noticed it was actually me on the floor (like another version of me) and that’s when my other self noticed I was looking at her she got like almost pissed and started lunging running towards me but before they got to me I frantically woke up I was almost shook out of sleep and I remember waking up just feeling so scared it was so weird”

    my theory is, maybe it was her part of her subconscious and she wasn’t suppose to notice them. idkkkk!!!! what do you guys think? any comments are welcomed!

    1 Comment
    2024/12/04
    16:08 UTC

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    Everyone abandoned me

    The dream started off pretty chill. I was in my home city. I saw my friends and family and everyone was doing good. During my dream I had to go to what seemed to be my job in a barber shop. While working I had to deal with difficult person and in the dream I lost my cool and yelled at the person (I never get this angry irl). I would’ve thought justifiable reason to yell at this person,but suddenly everything changed. I would leave work to cool off, but then I met my step dad who became extremely upset with me. I tired explaining what happened but he just wouldn’t listen. I then found my mom but somehow my stepdad got to her too and she wouldn’t listen to me. I spoke to my brothers they didn’t even look at me and finally the part that woke up me was when I tried to talk to my girlfriend in my dream and she just looked at me in disgust and walked about. I couldn’t take it anymore and forced my self awake in a cold sweat breathing heavily.

    1 Comment
    2024/12/04
    16:03 UTC

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    Can anyone explain

    Had the strangest dream recently, I was in a car me in the back seat, my friend driving her car. And we passed a load of moose ( weird as I’ve never seen on in real life in English - we don’t have them & ME NOR ANY KNOWLEDGE OF THEM) So we passed these moose, and there was A HUGE ONE with antlers but the antlers resembled like the 3 horned dinosaur ?? But when I looked back they were just very large antler but yes it did have a horn on its nose. We continue driving down this open dirt road ( no clue where) and this moose head buts the back window just missing my head. With that I tell my friend ‘put your foot on it’ meaning SPEED UP NOW, we gain so distance thinking we are okay & then she asks me ‘ is it gone’ I turn to look and this moose is CHARGING & chasing whilst we are driving 70mph ( weird as car wouldn’t go faster) we eventually gain more distance and she drops me off at this place? Were it had the huge bar electric gates I hope out the car she speeds away I run into this house which seemed like it was on a compound hence the gate. With that I run into this house, and I look through the door and shut it quickly because I can hear/ sense this moose coming - it comes to the gate and goes to walk away BUT THEN SMELLS ME my immediate thought being ‘fuck I wasn’t quick enough it’s caught my scent’ and it comes into the compound - gate just magically opened. ( reminds me a bit of the reindeer from frozen weirdly when it caught the scent) I can’t remember much else other than me telling someone in my dream about it and then saying something in regards to ‘moose are friendly & majestic creatures, they only follow those who are truly special’

    CAN SOMEONE EXPLAIN, because I can usually sus out my dreams but this one 😂😅 has me stumped! Or was it just a weird dream? As I find I’ve never had an ‘irrelevant dream’ if you get what I mean?

    1 Comment
    2024/12/04
    16:03 UTC

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    Super vivid dreams every time I shut my eyes

    Ever since 2 years ago I’ve been having super, super vivid dreams, so vivid I dream in the dream and dream in that dream.

    Last night I had a dream where I took of a vr headset and I kept taking them off, off and off. Continuously taking of vr headsets in my room, waking up in different times from the past 2 years. Eventually when I take the last one off, I wake up in a hospital bed, I’m a brown teenage girl with a rare fungal blood infection that infected most of the world and now they live in simulations. In real life I’m an adult white guy but the dream was super vivid.

    In another dream I kept taking off the vr headset, and everytime I took it off I woke up in a different world and everytime I took it off the world got more simpler. Until eventually I woke up in a white space. 100’s of times I took off the headset and I could name every time I took it off.

    I keep having dreams where there’s a worm in my eye, trying to keep me from seeing something, it’s disguising and hard to take out, sometimes I’m chained up and masked men are putting it in my eye. And other dreams I have giant worms wrapped around me like living chains, I can feel their weight and touch, and I can take them off as well and feel the weight being lifted.

    Every night I have dreams telling me reality is a lie, I am a perfectly sane person with no history or family history of delusions. These dreams have a massive impact on my living life and spiritual ways.

    Does anyone else dream like this?

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    2024/12/04
    15:51 UTC

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    I had a murder drones theme park ride dream

    I had a dream last night that there was a murder drones theme park ride located at Universal Studios (for some reason) heres how it went. You would go through Copper 9 and down this hallway filled with broken pipes and cokroach, you could also look through these holes where you could see the outside. There was also a pre show where an animatronic of Uzi, N, and V then the ride vehicle (I assume) would rise from the ground with a plume of mist. The ride was a roller coaster with a launch, then Cyn would burst through a wall and say "Y0uR T0o LaTE" then you would make a sharp turn where Uzi would be standing holding a rail gun, you would launch and past by N shooting several murder drones then you would make a steep drop to avoid another murder drone and you would see scenes of Uzi fighting murder drones and projections of enemy fire. By the end Eledritch J would be in front of you before you propel backwards and past by more murder drones and thats wher the dream ended

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    2024/12/04
    15:28 UTC

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    “Unraveling” the Deeper Meaning

    Last night, I dreamt that while others in the house were either silent or fast asleep - I crouched on the carpet at the edge of the bed near an outlet and opened my stomach all the way from side-to-side.

    I peeled back layer after layer of intestine - all of them translucent, allowing me to glimpse all prior meals. The thought passed through my mind that maybe I shouldn’t be doing this - but I continued anyway. One after the other, many intestinal layers in, their contents were still all undigested. It looked…felt like stuffed chitterling sausages.

    Finally, upon holding up nine or so of the ones with undigested contents, I saw the last intestinal strand. At last, it contained some digested remnants of food. It looked to be a healthy greenish-brown.

    I saw the problem - a tangle in the cords. This was pretty easy to open up my guts and get to the root of the problem, I thought. I wonder why doctors need general anesthesia to do this and still manage to get blood everywhere and accidentally kill people.

    To my surprise, I was able to untangle it by unplugging a cord that connected to it from the charger box sticking out of the wall outlet, and pulling the intestinal layers all the way up like a giant spaghetti noodle so as to unravel it like a twisted cord.

    The not-so straightforward part was placing the entrails back inside, where I just sort of let them fall into what I hope is an alright position. I was a bit concerned about the placement but proceeded to plug the cord back in (witnessing a few sparks of electricity and trying a different outlet in the process, so as not to fry my organs).

    Strangely enough, closing the gaping laceration only required folding my stomach skin back over itself - a welcome surprise to even dream-me.

    1 Comment
    2024/12/04
    15:23 UTC

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    Haunted by my recently deceased cat in my dreams

    My 16 year old creamy orange and white boy took a down turn a little over a month ago and I had a vet come to the house to help him reach his big sleep. I knew he was scared to die, he clung to life hard even though he was sick. He’d been scared of death since his brother died years ago. Despite this, I thought his death went very peacefully and his little brother held his had the whole time. But almost weekly I have a dream with him resurrected in his body, living again. In the dreams I have a slight unease that this is wrong and shouldn’t be happening. Am I just grieving? Or is his little spirit trapped?

    3 Comments
    2024/12/04
    15:12 UTC

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    Dreams coming true

    Okay don’t call me crazy. But does anyone else have dreams that in part come true? Sometimes it’ll be a couple days later, one time I dreamed about the same bulletin board decorations in classroom for years that I’d never seen and then went into class in high school and that same bulletin board was up in the theatre room of my new school. It’s never the whole dream, but bits and pieces I’ll see later exactly as they were, and get intense Deja vu. Idk just curious if anyone else has had this happen. Since I was a kid really.

    1 Comment
    2024/12/04
    15:05 UTC

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    Babies and danger

    Yesterday I caught my 1 year old brother just before he stuck his finger in a fan. Last night I had a dream I took my eyes off him for a second and when I turned around he was missing a finger and it was all my fault. This shouldn’t be something i should have to stress about. He’s not my kid. Sick of this.

    1 Comment
    2024/12/04
    14:58 UTC

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    Dream's of ex girlfriend's

    Does any men have dreams of exes? I'm 48 year's old and been single a long time now 11 year's

    1 Comment
    2024/12/04
    14:43 UTC

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    Had a dream abt SA

    Hi I’m a high schooler (17f) and I recently had a dream where I was SA by my art teacher. He’s been nothing but kind to me in real life but the dream was really terrible. I’ve never been SA before but the whole experience has been bothering me for days. Part of me feels weird when I see him in person now too. I just feel troubled and I’m unsure why I even had the dream in the first place.

    1 Comment
    2024/12/04
    14:40 UTC

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    I had a dream that "Silver Shrimp" was a insult TwT (Like,you're than B*tch,Slut and etc)

    If you called someone a Silver Shrimp they would probably ATTACK YOU!

    I said to a girl "Dont be such a Silver Shrimp" she looked at me mad af XD

    So,new insult if you want to insult someone but doesn't know what to say,Call them a Silver Shrimp ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

    1 Comment
    2024/12/04
    14:35 UTC

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    Can someone please interpret my dream?

    I keep having dreams for the past two years now that take place at this big old house that I’ve never seen in real life or been to, and in the basement there’s a sealed off / boarded off kitchen that is very dusty and dirty that I Discovered in one of my dreams, and the rest of the house is beautiful maybe Victorian with lots of rooms full of someone’s stuff and it’s in this town that the rest of my dreams take place in and last night I had a dream that I bought that house and started cleaning it up and renovating it. Certain rooms I wasn’t allowed to touch, And lately I haven’t been dreaming unless it’s a dream about this house or this town. Outside of the house is a beach or an ocean maybe but in the middle there is a long strip of Rockwall that goes all the way across to the other side of and there’s always people swimming around it or fishing off of it and there’s like cliffs and these dreams about the house in the town are always like the same landscape same scenery just what I’m doing is different or even the weather and stuff. It’s just weird and I was wondering if anyone that reads dreams can tell me what it means or represents.

    1 Comment
    2024/12/04
    14:25 UTC

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    Reoccurring dream

    Hey yall gooogle was not helping so I came here! I'm having this reoccurring dream that im standing outside a chicken coop with a bunch of baby chickens and they're so cute and im trying to pick them up and put them all safely back into the coop but I accidentally step on one, the first time I had this dream I was sad but rational and was like "that's really upsetting but they're so little and they won't stop running around, this isn't my fault" but in the second dream it was the complete opposite, I was absolutely devastated and convinced it was my fault that this little baby bird died and I woke up feeling really bad about it, does anyone know any sort of meaning or reason for a dream like this?

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    2024/12/04
    14:17 UTC

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    I died last night

    There I was, an American, on a street typical of what you would imagine in a WWII ravaged city. I see a group of four or five German soldiers near a truck. My intent as I approached was to “take them out”. A few moments pass that I don’t recall but the next thing I remember I am next to their truck. For some reason they were all in the cab of the truck firing toward something in front of them. I had a submachine gun and planned to open the door and engage them all. When I opened the drivers door I fired one round, which did not hit anyone, and the gun stopped firing.

    The soldier in the drivers seat turned to me and pointed his gun so I threw my hands up. For some reason I knew the war was going to be over within two weeks so I begged him not to shoot me. I offered to be a willing prisoner, to serve all of them however they needed by getting them food, water, or cigarettes. I begged for my life. As he pointed his gun at my head I saw the irony of the situation that only a moments before I was going to kill them. He pulled the trigger and I felt no pain as I fell to the ground. The world went silent as I fell but I retained full visual clarity. My last vision was that of the litter covered ground and the rear tire of the truck before everything went peacefully black and I woke up.

    I’ve never died in a dream before.

    10 Comments
    2024/12/04
    13:50 UTC

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    Learn to dream?

    So I'm both a very fascinated student of psychology, as well as a spiritual seeker after enlightenment, quite intuitive, I have a reasonably strong daily meditation practice where I am able to hold stillness for decent periods of time and truly benefit from my practice. So my question is this. Much to my dismay I have remembered maybe a total of five dreams in the last 5 years. It certainly isn't that I can't dream because occasionally I have very powerful dreams. But I really can't help but the feel like my subconscious is preventing me from accessing a very important tool to my growth. I've done fairly extensive Shadow work, therapy, I'm a student of Jung. There's a dream journal beside my bed untouched LOL. I set very clear and strong intentions every night to dream and remember. Anyway you get the gist. I'm just looking for any insight anyone might have as to what my potential block could be or any experiences anyone has in this area that could be beneficial to my understanding of this. Thank you in advance

    5 Comments
    2024/12/04
    13:44 UTC

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    How do I stop dreaming I'm in school? It's not even the school I know exept for few classmates I recognize, everything else is different, teachers, classrooms... It's like I'm living in a parallel universe!

    I graduated highschool 25 years ago and I'm still dreaming I somehow end up in a classroom, everyone does their thing like it's break time and I speak and interact with them!

    The WORST part is that the whole dream I stress SO much that I didn't learn something, or didn't do a homework and class is about to start...

    I'm panicking while acting like nothing's wrong so I don't draw attention to me, even finding my desk is making me panic like "where did I leave my stuff? Where is my stuff, did I even bring my backpack, am I really this unprepared for class?"

    One thing I vividly remember before going to class, I was in a college dorm and told my roomate "I'd rather miss the whole first class than panic to make it in time and arrive in the middle of it!" (I've never been to college but I've been seen how college dorms look)

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    2024/12/04
    13:35 UTC

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    Dream about crows

    I had a dream last night where i was at this house i never seen before (2nd time in a dream; A light grey rancher sitting on a large field). I was in the back of this house and two crows were flying around me and each other. I gave them bread and they took one bite each and went to the roof of the house. The house didnt appear in decay and was kept up, at least from where i was at, there was some bush behind me and something shading me like a tree.

    It felt like they trusted me. I looked up to the roof with the crows and then woke up.

    About 2 years ago, The first dream i had of this house i was searching for someone and ended up at the front of it. My first car was there and the house sat in a huge field with grass looking like it was in a drought. Trees fenced the background. It had a dirt driveway. It felt like i was in north carolina area, maybe virginia. This dream felt like i had just aquired this home.

    Both dreams it was day, sky was cloudy and it the trees were leaved, they felt like it wouldve been a colder day, calm and quiet.

    My mother was standing about 10 feet from me, dressed in black and we both looked at the house and then i woke up.

    Any idea what these mean? ive never been to this house, never seen it and feel its not a bad place but possibly a future home of mine.

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    2024/12/04
    13:27 UTC

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    Nightmare where nothing exactly happened but it all felt scary ?

    BOHooo i fell asleep and an hour later woke up (can a btch get some rest for gods sake) from a nightmare where nothing scary happened but i felt terrified!!

    What i remember is a weird, whistle like, long noise that went higher in pitch then lower,continuosly. In the dream, or the part i remember, after going some place, my house started feeling weird. Eventually i told mom and she said, matter of factly, "yeah youre kinda blurry since then" ?!?! MOM? 😭 Then my dog said something and i was like ?? Pardon? My dog answered back and it was so scary. Everyone around was normal about it? I got the feeling then that i had "stepped out" of reality and was disappearing or something. And everyone around me was carrying on normally, thats why i was the only one disturbed by what now seemed off. I was googling if there were any nutritional deficiencies that particularly made you feel unreal, and the sound kept on When i woke up, the sound turned to be real yall 😬 must be coming from the workshop near me,and i probably heard it before but now it freaks me out

    Could i be haunted or something. This is the second time i wake up from a nightmare and see something (probably made up by the fear, but still worth asking) odd at the corner of the room

    2 Comments
    2024/12/04
    13:23 UTC

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    Why do I always dream of driving but can never brake or its so slow that I almost crash ?

    Thus has happened ever since I can remember. There's alot of weird detailed dreams u have also. Just want you guys thoughts on ut. Does anyone else experience this?

    3 Comments
    2024/12/04
    13:19 UTC

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    Worst Lucid dream I’ve ever had

    To be clear, I’ve had lucid dreams several times, but today it kind of declined me. So I was in a dream that was pretty dark and weird. Weird creatures, smoke and narrow streets with pipes around me (kind of like Zaun in S2 Arcane). I realized I was dreaming when I saw a kind of dragon sliding down a sewer pipe. So I tried to control the dream, but I got like teleported into another dream. I was in an unknown backyard, with a brown wooden fence, some bushes and a small yellow house. A guy came out of that said house and started fighting me. I thought I could use some powers since I was in a lucid dream, but he said, "Oh, this ain’t no lucid dream, boy." He knocked me down and threw me into another dream. At this point I got fucking scared and tried to wake myself up. I’ve had some methods to exit dreams, but nothing worked today. I was in a dream in which I woke up from a dream (the fight in the backyard). A non-familiar room, a weird Balkan-style carpet hanging on the wall. I was so scared that I tried to grab my phone (IRL) to call my mom so she would come and wake me up. The phone is pin-locked, so that didn’t work. I started running as fast and as far as I could. Corridor after corridor filled with people I didn’t know and several doors leading to weirdly shaped and organized rooms. I came to a halt at a dead end. I didn’t know what to do. There was a little window, not a normal European window, more like a food delivery window like McDonald‘s has them. A weird guy, fat smeared across his apron. He gave me a pill that kind of crumbled into 4 pieces. I ate them in hope of waking up. And I did. I woke up with a little shock. My phone in my hand, sweat all over my body. I‘ve slept for almost 2hrs, but it felt like several days. 

    If you've read to this point, English is not my first language, so I want to apologize for several grammatical mistakes. 

    Tell me what you think about this in the comments :) and have a nice day!

    3 Comments
    2024/12/04
    13:17 UTC

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    Nightmares

    I recently started having nightmares. Some are like yeah yeah typical nightmare, others are like how the fuck did my brain come up with that? It’s really distressing and causing me anxiety. Is there any way to stop nightmares? I know that sounds silly, but I just want to sleep peacefully. The current horrors of the world in my waking hours are enough.

    2 Comments
    2024/12/04
    13:16 UTC

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    Which types of dreams come true?

    I heard that if you dream about someone else, or about something that will happen today, or another category that I cant remember, they will come true. Can someone please find the source and the correct list?

    6 Comments
    2024/12/04
    13:15 UTC

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    dream meaning

    Can anybody interpret this dream I had last night.I googled and I there's no specific dream like this. my sister-in-law is pregnant with triplets, termed and delivered all the babies through caesarian and all were dead babies.I was the only one who brought her to the hospital, after she gave birth, I was crying because the triplets were dead. Anybody with similar dream?

    1 Comment
    2024/12/04
    13:13 UTC

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    People from my past

    I’m divorced and dream of my ex husband and his family members. Aunts. Cousins. Sisters. I don’t see them anymore. It’s annoying. Any advice why?

    1 Comment
    2024/12/04
    13:06 UTC

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    Can someone interpret.

    I had a dream that a decent man went to a corner store to buy something to eat. While leaving the store he noticed a man and his son begging for change. Both the man and his son seemed well off or chubby. So the decent man went back into the store to get some change for them. He decided to give them 3 dollars split even since they seemed well off. The cashier gave him change in coins one dollar and fifty cents for both, but the dollars were in coin form. When the decent man went outside to give the well-off man and his son the coins, he rejected them at first because they were just coins. But when the man saw that the coins were dollar coins, he then tried to reach out to grab the coins, but It was too late because the decent man feeling offended walked away from their ungrateful gesture. Once the decent man went across the street to leave on a bike he had parked he noticed that the son of the well off man had stolen the tires from his bike during the time he went back to give them change.

    2 Comments
    2024/12/04
    12:42 UTC

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    Song creation in dreams

    Anyone know more about creating songs in dreams? I’ve thought up complete classical, country, rock, folk, etc songs with words and melodies. They are always beautiful and they typically play over and over until I slowly wake up ‘thinking’ about them. Anyone know what causes this phenomenon or what part of the brain is responsible?

    For reference, I am not a musician

    1 Comment
    2024/12/04
    12:37 UTC

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    Dream of the night

    I was in "germany" exploring around and decided to stop at a place to eat. It had one of the kiosks and automated card readers but it also asked for ID. I was trying to check the menu and a couple of girls took my kiosk. I politely told them and they said no problem. I felt rushed and a bit of panic. Well it ended up destroying my ID.

    Other dream was disorienting, in and out of bed and consciousness dream.

    1 Comment
    2024/12/04
    12:28 UTC

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    Not sure if Demons or dark forces

    So I’m 33. Every blue moon I’ll have a nightmare ever since I can remember but tonight was a bit different. So my dreams are pretty good themselves. For this post I’ll use the dream I just had. We were at this house and there was a sort of living room with a long wall. So my gf takes out the trash and I go up to the wall to do something then I start going back to where I came from and started calling for my girlfriend. At the same time I can feel something dark behind me and my whole body freezes. Usually I wake up slowly but pretty fast. But this time took me just a little bit longer but like I felt like I was moaning real loud but snoring at the same time. Idk it was weird. I’ve always wanted to share my nightmares never have outside my girlfriend until this one was different and I said WTH I’ll just post to see If anyone has experiences like mine.

    1 Comment
    2024/12/04
    12:25 UTC

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