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The physical explorations of your planet followed such dream information in one way or another. The explorers were not going out blindly. Period. The alternate waking and sleeping patterns—that is, one portion of the species sleeping while the other portion wakes—allows a clear division between waking and sleeping information. In the waking state you check your perception against physical conditions. You see whether or not others perceive what you do. Physical data are the result of pooled information to a large degree. If it is raining outside, everyone should get wet. In the dream state information is not immediately checked against the environment. It may be raining in a dream but your sleeping body remains dry. Your dreams largely involve conditions that were physical, or conditions that might be physical. There, then, the race deals with probabilities.
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