Imagining worst-case scenarios while awake; Samantha calls it the default form of daydreaming and says we can wake up from it within seconds the way we do from a nightmare.
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- Wake from catastrophes like nightmares
We recover from a terrifying nightmare within seconds of realizing it was a dream, yet we give full power to waking worst-case daydreams just because we are awake. We can wake up from those…