Dreams are crazy, but aren’t they also guidance? Our guest, Sandi Madison, helps us find sense in the nonsense of our dreams and argues that the best self-help book we can ever read is our own dream journal! We talk about the importance of keeping and reviewing a dream journal, and Sandi shares some of her recurring themes that show how she has matured over the 38 years she has been journaling. Sandi suggests we try to remember dreams as we wake up by focusing on the feelings we have when we wake up. We also talk about precognitive dreams and the power of snippets. After the break, we talk to Carrie Voorhees who is one of the artists whose work is featured in Sandi’s book, “Diving Before Dawn.”

FULL LENGTH VIDEO! Behind the scenes action. Watch here: https://youtu.be/RDpi9VCKZ1U?si=F5Wf-Q9zI-cDa09D

BIO: Sandi Madison shares her intuitive and experiential approach to dream work. Her journey into self-discovery, told through her dream life, is the rich source of material from which was born her book, Diving Before Dawn: A Dream Exploration. Her ardent desire is to help others utilize dreams as inner guidance.

This show, episode number 336, was recorded during a live broadcast on November 8, 2025 at KSQD.org, community radio of Santa Cruz.

Intro and outro music by Mood Science. Ambient music new every week by Rick Kleffel. Archived music can be found at Pandemiad.com. Many thanks to Rick for also engineering the show and to Erik Nelson for answering the phones.

SHARE A DREAM FOR THE SHOW or a question or enquire about being a guest on the podcast by emailing Katherine Bell at [email protected]. Follow on FB, IG, LI, & YT @ExperientialDreamwork #thedreamjournal. To learn more or to inquire about exploring your own dreams go to ExperientialDreamwork.com.

The Dream Journal aims to:

A dream can be meaningful even if you don’t know what it means.

The Dream Journal is produced at and airs on KSQD Santa Cruz, 90.7 FM. Catch it streaming LIVE at KSQD.org 10-11am Pacific Time on Saturdays. Call or text with your dreams or questions at 831-900-5773 or email at [email protected]. Podcasts are available on all major podcast platforms the Monday following the live show. The complete KSQD Dream Journal podcast page can be found at ksqd.org/the-dream-journal/.

Closed captioning is available on the YouTube version of this podcast and an automatically generated transcript is available at Apple Podcasts within 24 hours of posting.

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Meet Jesse Lyon, a clinical hypnotherapist with an extensive background in trauma, anxiety, dissociative disorders, and the neurodivergent community. He’s a viral social media influencer with over two million followers, captivating hearts worldwide. We talk start by talking about how dreams speak in the language of the subconscious mind and often reflect what he calls our core struggle. We then talk about neurodivergence and how dreaming shows up in people with ADHD, who are on the autism spectrum, or who have aphantasia.

After the break, we take three calls. The first is from Jacob in Florida who asks about whether recurring dreams relate to a glitch in the brain. Our second call is from poet Jenny D’Angelo in Santa Cruz who shares some of her waking visions. Our final call comes from Julie of New Brunswick who shares her experience of dreaming with aphantasia.

BIO: Trauma, hypnotherapy, nightmares, and counseling. Jesse Lyon, MS, LMHC, believes that dreams speak in the language of the subconscious mind and offer powerful insights into recovery for mental health. His mission is to bring this tool to clinicians and the general public so they can heal and live the lives they were always meant to live. 

This show, episode number 335, was recorded during a live broadcast on November 1, 2025 at KSQD.org, community radio of Santa Cruz.

Intro and outro music by Mood Science. Ambient music new every week by Rick Kleffel. Archived music can be found at Pandemiad.com. Many thanks to Rick for also engineering the show and to Erik Nelson for answering the phones.

SHARE A DREAM FOR THE SHOW or a question or enquire about being a guest on the podcast by emailing Katherine Bell at [email protected]. Follow on FB, IG, LI, & YT @ExperientialDreamwork #thedreamjournal. To learn more or to inquire about exploring your own dreams go to ExperientialDreamwork.com.

The Dream Journal aims to:

A dream can be meaningful even if you don’t know what it means.

The Dream Journal is produced at and airs on KSQD Santa Cruz, 90.7 FM. Catch it streaming LIVE at KSQD.org 10-11am Pacific Time on Saturdays. Call or text with your dreams or questions at 831-900-5773 or email at [email protected]. Podcasts are available on all major podcast platforms the Monday following the live show. The complete KSQD Dream Journal podcast page can be found at ksqd.org/the-dream-journal/.

Closed captioning is available on the YouTube version of this podcast and an automatically generated transcript is available at Apple Podcasts within 24 hours of posting.

Thanks for being a Dream Journal listener! Available on all major podcast platforms. Rate it, review it, subscribe, and tell your friends.

Every night our dreams invite us to enter the mystery that is our soul, and they guide us toward wholeness, purpose, and destiny. Today we talk with Sara Saidy about the power of dream groups which she describes as alchemical containers. She calls dreams love letters from the soul.

Sara starts out by defining the imaginal realm and how we access it through dreaming or active imagination. She shares the results of her research showing that dream groups can provide places where people experience not just personal transformation, but also interconnectedness, enhanced empathy, and compassion. She gives some radical suggestions for how to deepen our own dream groups.

After the break, we take a call from Sylvia from Ontario who asks about and describes her own experiences of using dreams for physical healing. We take a second call from Martha from Los Angeles who asks about working with recurring dream images. We end with a discussion of how a Jungian approach to dream exploration changes our focus from the plotlines of dreams to the images and characters themselves.

BIO: A Jungian dream practitioner, writer, artist, and researcher specializing in transpersonal dream studies. She uses, Art, and Transpersonal Psychology to explore dreams’ transformative potential. Currently training as a Jungian Analyst, she offers global consultations, workshops, and dream groups to help individuals and groups engage meaningfully with the imaginal realm through dreamwork. She lives in Florence, Italy. 

Find our guest at: sarasaidy.com, IG: @sarasaidy, SS: SaraSaidy.substack.com, LI: @sara-saidy

This show, episode number 334, was recorded during a live broadcast on October 25, 2025 at KSQD.org, community radio of Santa Cruz.

Intro and outro music by Mood Science. Ambient music new every week by Rick Kleffel. Archived music can be found at Pandemiad.com. Many thanks to Rick for also engineering the show and to Erik Nelson for answering the phones.

If you liked this episode, consider checking out these others:

Putting the Psyche Back in Psychology with Jungian Depth Therapist Eva Rider

Dream Guidance with Machiel Klerk, founder of the Jung Platform

Projective Dreamwork with the Healing Dreams Project Podcast Hosts

SHARE A DREAM FOR THE SHOW or a question or enquire about being a guest on the podcast by emailing Katherine Bell at [email protected]. Follow on FB, IG, LI, & YT @ExperientialDreamwork #thedreamjournal. To learn more or to inquire about exploring your own dreams go to ExperientialDreamwork.com.

The Dream Journal aims to:

A dream can be meaningful even if you don’t know what it means.

The Dream Journal is produced at and airs on KSQD Santa Cruz, 90.7 FM. Catch it streaming LIVE at KSQD.org 10-11am Pacific Time on Saturdays. Call or text wi

​​AI dream interpretation platforms are getting ever more popular. ​We talk today with Harry de Bont, the developer of AUT-Dream,​ about how best to approach these tools and why his platform is an improvement over Chat GPT. We talk about what he calls the Anthropic Universe Theory (AUT) and argues that the primary purpose of dreams is to comment on what surprises us and then to help us shift our world model to something closer to reality. We also talk about how AI relates to an emerging collective awareness, and he shares some of his hopes for future ways AI might be used to catalyze community.

We take two questions from Max. He asks about how AI works which leads into a discussion of pattern recognition and the inevitable biases of AI based on the cultural profile of the data entered into it. Harry ends by encouraging us to try AI dream interpretation but cautions us to always stick up for our intuition when working with our dreams.

BIO: Harry de Bont is an Electrical engineer and dream researcher who bridges psychology, physics, and consciousness studies. He developed the Anthropic Universe Theory describing dreaming as the mind’s nightly realignment between body, world, and society. His work explores how emotion and intuition arise from the same patterns of balance that shape both the landscape of our dreams and the physical world.

Find our guest at: monadcompany.nl

IG: @harrydebont_

YT: @HarrydeBont

LI: @/harry-de-bont-9b5217

Here is a link to the class I mentioned on air called Social Justice Dreaming: Intuitive Activism for Challenging Times which teaches you how to apply dreaming and intuitive skills to activist practices which will keep you from descending into despair. Starting Nov 7, there will be three live events as well as online forums and weekly journaling prompts. It is taught by Katrina Dreamer. Details at katrinadreamer.com/sjd

This show, episode number 333, was recorded during a live broadcast on October 18, 2025 at KSQD.org, community radio of Santa Cruz.

Intro and outro music by Mood Science. Ambient music new every week by Rick Kleffel. Archived music can be found at Pandemiad.com. Many thanks to Rick for also engineering the show and to Erik Nelson for answering the phones.

SHARE A DREAM FOR THE SHOW or a question or enquire about being a guest on the podcast by emailing Katherine Bell at [email protected]. Follow on FB, IG, LI, & YT @ExperientialDreamwork #thedreamjournal. To learn more or to inquire about exploring your own dreams go to ExperientialDreamwork.com.

The Dream Journal aims to:

A dream can be meaningful even if you don’t know what it means.

The Dream Journal is produced at and airs on KSQD Santa Cruz, 90.7 FM. Catch it streaming LIVE at KSQD.org 10-11am Pacific Time on Saturdays. Call or text with your dreams or questions at 831-900-5773 or email at [email protected]. Podcasts are available on all major podcast platforms the Monday following the live show. The com

Today’s guest composes music to his patient’s dreams, capturing feelings and moods and deepening the psychotherapeutic process. In this replay from two years ago, we meet Dr. Michael Mollura who is a PhD licensed clinical psychologist and also an award-winning music composer for TV and movies. Michael started by scoring music to his own dreams and later found out how valuable the practice was in deepening the healing for his psychotherapy clients.

We play a clip of one such piece called Scary Path Dream. Michael describes the process of scoring the piece including using cello to represent the waving branches of the trees. He also describes the effect that listening to this creation had on his client in deepening her process and even bringing up waking life memories that she had forgotten.

We take a call from Steven Ernenwein who describes his own experience scoring music for the dreams of guests on his podcast The Dreams that Shape Us.

BIO: Dr. Michael Mollura is a licensed clinical psychologist with a PhD from Pacifica Graduate Institute and a Master’s Degree in Performance Studies from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. He composes music to the dream reports of his psychotherapy clients as a way of accessing unconscious material to provide healing pathways on neurological and collective levels. H e has found this to be an innovative way to promote healing and well-being for his clients. The therapy draws a bridge between Dr. Mollura’s work as a professional award-winning music composer and as a clinician.

Find our guest at: DrMichaelMollura.com

This show, episode number 332, was originally recorded during a live broadcast July  29, 2023 at KSQD.org, community radio of Santa Cruz.

Intro and outro music by Mood Science. Ambient music new every week by Rick Kleffel. Archived music can be found at Pandemiad.com. Many thanks to Rick for also engineering the show and to Erik Nelson for answering the phones.

SHARE A DREAM FOR THE SHOW or a question or enquire about being a guest on the podcast by emailing Katherine Bell at [email protected]. Follow on FB, IG, LI, & YT @ExperientialDreamwork #thedreamjournal. To learn more or to inquire about exploring your own dreams go to ExperientialDreamwork.com.

The Dream Journal aims to:

A dream can be meaningful even if you don’t know what it means.

The Dream Journal is produced at and airs on KSQD Santa Cruz, 90.7 FM. Catch it streaming LIVE at KSQD.org 10-11am Pacific Time on Saturdays. Call or text with your dreams or questions at 831-900-5773 or email at [email protected]. Podcasts are available on all major podcast platforms the Monday following the live show. The complete KSQD Dream Journal podcast page can be found at ksqd.org/the-dream-journal/.

Closed captioning is available on the YouTube version of this podcast and an automatically generated transcript is available at Apple Podcasts.

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Why just manifest your dreams when you can dreamifest them? Harness the power of your nighttime dreams to make your daytime dreams come true! Eleven-time author and popular podcaster Kelly Sullivan Walden, aka Doctor Dream, joins us for a magical romp through her ideas around why it’s so hard to create the lives we want, and how dreams will help us finally do it!

Kelly talks about how to be clear in how we ask for help from our dream world and about the difference between soul goals and ego goals. She also describes how to set up your own sleep cocoon. After the break, Kelly guides Katherine through her JETSET formalism to help find meaning in a dream.

BIO: Kelly Sullivan Walden s a dream expert, TEDx speaker, and bestselling author devoted to awakening the world to the power of dreams. Kelly is passionate about empowering her clients to manifest their deepest, most soulful desires by allowing their dreaming mind to do the heavy-lifting. She has eleven books, seven oracle decks, and is host of the Dreamifesting podcast.

Find our guest at: Dreamifesting.com KellySullivalWalden.com FB @KellySullivanWaldenDreams IG @kellyswalden LI @kellysullivanwalden YT @KellySullivanWalden TT @kellyswalden SS @kellysullivanwalden

This show, episode number 331, was recorded during a live broadcast on October 4, 2025 at KSQD.org, community radio of Santa Cruz.

Intro and outro music by Mood Science. Ambient music new every week by Rick Kleffel. Archived music can be found at Pandemiad.com. Many thanks to Rick for also engineering the show and to Erik Nelson for answering the phones.

The Santa Cruz Festival of Dreams will be at the Museum of Art and History October 10-12, 2025! Information at FestivalofDreams.net Follow us at our FB group page HERE or follow #KeepSantaCruzDreaming on FB and IG.

SHARE A DREAM FOR THE SHOW or a question or enquire about being a guest on the podcast by emailing Katherine Bell at [email protected]. Follow on FB, IG, LI, & YT @ExperientialDreamwork #thedreamjournal. To learn more or to inquire about exploring your own dreams go to ExperientialDreamwork.com.

The Dream Journal aims to:

A dream can be meaningful even if you don’t know what it means.

The Dream Journal is produced at and airs on KSQD Santa Cruz, 90.7 FM. Catch it streaming LIVE at KSQD.org 10-11am Pacific Time on Saturdays. Call or text with your dreams or questions at 831-900-5773 or email at [email protected]. Podcasts are available on all major podcast platforms the Monday following the live show. The complete KSQD Dream Journal podcast page can be found at ksqd.org/the-dream-journal/.

Closed captioning is available on the YouTube version of this podcast and an automatically generated transcript is available at Apple Podcasts.

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Our guest has hosted hundreds of patients on ketamine-assisted psychedelic trips and has gone on a few of his own, yet his experience is that dreamwork can be even more profound. In this show, a replay of a popular show from August 2024 Katherine talks to Dr. Darren Jakubec, an emergency-room anesthetist who runs a pain clinic in northern British Columbia.

Jake talks about his history with dreaming and inner work and then gives an example of working a dream with a pain clinic patient. He describes his experience with a ketamine clinic which he ran for several years, describing psychedelics as an inner work accelerant which uses much of the same language as dreaming.

After the break we take a dream share from Steve Popp, co-host of the “In the Garden” program which precedes the Dream Journal on Saturday mornings on KSQD. The dream features powerful spiritual themes which leads us into Jake giving his analogy about psychedelics vs dreaming which he summarizes as fire hose vs garden hose. We take a second dream from Elizabeth from Bellingham WA of a chaotic car trip with a problematic loved one.

Books mentioned during the show: The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk, How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan, and various work by Gabor Mate. He also mentions the Curable app for dealing with chronic pain.

BIO: Darren Jakubec, M.D., is trained in family medicine and in anesthesia and lives and practices in northern British Columbia. Darren has been a dreamworker for 12 years and practices dreamwork in his pain clinic, in his ketamine clinic, in the emergency room, and in the hallways and rooms of the hospital where he works.

Contact me to get in touch with my guest.

This show, episode number 330 was broadcast September 27, 2025 as a replay from a show recorded during live August 3, 2024 at KSQD.org, community radio of Santa Cruz.

Intro and outro music by Mood Science. Ambient music new every week by Rick Kleffel. Archived music can be found at Pandemiad.com. Many thanks to Rick for also engineering the show and to Erik Nelson for answering the phones.

The Santa Cruz Festival of Dreams will be at the Museum of Art and History October 10-12, 2025! Information at FestivalofDreams.net Follow us at our FB group page HERE or follow #KeepSantaCruzDreaming on FB and IG.

SHARE A DREAM FOR THE SHOW or a question or enquire about being a guest on the podcast by emailing Katherine Bell at [email protected]. Follow on FB, IG, LI, & YT @ExperientialDreamwork #thedreamjournal. To learn more or to inquire about exploring your own dreams go to ExperientialDreamwork.com.

The Dream Journal aims to:

A dream can be meaningful even if you don’t know what it means.

The Dream Journal is produced at and airs on KSQD Santa Cruz, 90.7 FM. Catch it streaming LIVE at KSQD.org 10-11am Pacific Time on Saturdays. Call or text with your dreams or questions at 831-900-5773 or email at [email protected]. Podcasts are available on all major pod

​How does a near death experience affect your life’s path? Hear one man’s story about ​how death before death can be a spiritual rebirth. So too, in dreams, death can be a gateway to awakening. Our guest ​this week is Nirakara Vani of the ​Philosophical ​Entertainment podcast. It’s another deep dive into the realms of dreaming, ​death, birth, ​and rebirth!

After the break, we take a call from Ellen from Santa Cruz who talks about her mother’s experience of almost drowning as a child and about the own “near death” experience while using plant medicine. We also take a question from Max who asks about how experiences of connecting with the field of existence affect a person’s life.

BIO: At age 38, following a near-death experience, the ego-identity of Matthew Mansfield dissolved. In its place emerged Nirakara Vani, “the formless voice”—a vessel for Source. Through the Philosophical Entertainment podcast, Vani transmits teachings on ego death, love, and spiritual awakening rooted in lived experience and radical surrender.

Find our guest at: PhilosophicalEntertainment.com​ IG: @PhilosophicalEntertainment,​ LI: @nirakara-vani-samvada, YT: @NirakaraVani, on FB search for Nirakara Vani

This show, episode number 329, was recorded during a live broadcast on September 20, 2025 at KSQD.org, community radio of Santa Cruz.

Intro and outro music by Mood Science. Ambient music new every week by Rick Kleffel. Archived music can be found at Pandemiad.com. Many thanks to Rick for also engineering the show and to Erik Nelson for answering the phones.

The Santa Cruz Festival of Dreams will be at the Museum of Art and History October 10-12, 2025! Information at FestivalofDreams.net Follow us at our FB group page HERE or follow #KeepSantaCruzDreaming on FB and IG.

SHARE A DREAM FOR THE SHOW or a question or enquire about being a guest on the podcast by emailing Katherine Bell at [email protected]. Follow on FB, IG, LI, & YT @ExperientialDreamwork #thedreamjournal. To learn more or to inquire about exploring your own dreams go to ExperientialDreamwork.com.

The Dream Journal aims to:

A dream can be meaningful even if you don’t know what it means.

The Dream Journal is produced at and airs on KSQD Santa Cruz, 90.7 FM. Catch it streaming LIVE at KSQD.org 10-11am Pacific Time on Saturdays. Call or text with your dreams or questions at 831-900-5773 or email at [email protected]. Podcasts are available on all major podcast platforms the Monday following the live show. The complete KSQD Dream Journal podcast page can be found at ksqd.org/the-dream-journal/.

Closed captioning is available on the YouTube version of this podcast and an automatically generated transcript is available at Apple Podcasts.

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Does your dream have only correct interpretation? No! I believe that there are many valuable ways to explore a dream and many layers of meaning. This week the Dream Journal hosts four dream guest experts who offer a range of ways to explore dreams to get you thinking about how to expand your thinking about dreaming. Join me, Katherine Bell, with my guests Linda Mastrangelo, Lauren Schneider, Victoria Rabinowe, and Marilyn Manzi as we take a wide-ranging ramble into the world of the dream.

Linda speaks about finding community as a dreamer. Victoria speaks about the value of little dreams about about forming dream groups. Marilyn speaks about befriending our inner monsters both asleep and awake. Lauren tells us about using Tarot cards to find meaning about finding resilience, personally and collectively. Katherine ends the first half by talking about using a treasure hunt approach to dream exploration. 

In the second half, we speak more informally about neural circuitry, anxiety dreams, nightmares, and many other topics. We also take a call from Cindy Bishop, a dream artist from San Luis Obispo who mentions our Festival of Dreams keynote speaker Dr. Apela Colorado and her book Woman between the Worlds.

Linda Mastrangelo: lightningtreetherapy.com and institutefordreamstudies.org

Victoria Rabinowe: victoriadreams.com

Marilyn Manzi: marilynmanzi.com and dreamsomatix.com

Lauren Schneider: dreamsandtarotpy.com

Katherine Bell: experientialdreamwork.com

Yumi aka Boss Lady: special guest-cat extraordinaire. Contact Linda to get in touch with Yumi!

This show, episode number 328, was recorded during a live broadcast on September 13, 2025 at KSQD.org, community radio of Santa Cruz.

Intro and outro music by Mood Science. Ambient music new every week by Rick Kleffel. Archived music can be found at Pandemiad.com. Many thanks to Rick for also engineering the show and to Erik Nelson for answering the phones.

The Santa Cruz Festival of Dreams will be at the Museum of Art and History October 10-12, 2025! Early bird discount available now at FestivalofDreams.net Follow us at our FB group page HERE or follow #KeepSantaCruzDreaming on FB and IG.

SHARE A DREAM FOR THE SHOW or a question or enquire about being a guest on the podcast by emailing Katherine Bell at [email protected]. Follow on FB, IG, LI, & YT @ExperientialDreamwork #thedreamjournal. To learn more or to inquire about exploring your own dreams go to ExperientialDreamwork.com.

The Dream Journal aims to:

A dream can be meaningful even if you don’t know what it means.

The Dream Journal is produced at and airs on KSQD Sa

Do sunspots, solar flares, and geomagnetic activity affect our dreams? Our guest, Annani Kelly, is finishing her PhD research on a study involving 92 participants and over 4700 dream reports. Annani talks about some of the effects of solar activity on health which has been well studied over the years. Hers is the first study which investigates such effects on dreaming. Annani’s study includes the effects on quality of sleep, nightmare frequency, non nightmare aggressive dreams, dream bizarreness, and extraordinary dreams.

After the break we take a call from Kelley from Santa Cruz who asks about central sleep apnea. Then Rick asks about the Fatima event and Max brings up the issue of the effects of earthly magnetic sources on mental health.

BIO: Annani Kelley has a Master of Arts in Transpersonal Psychology and is a PhD Candidate with an anticipated graduation date of December 7th. Her research focus is the interplay between space weather and consciousness. Her dissertation explored the influence of space weather on sleep and dream states.

Check the webpage SpaceWeatherLive.com for a compilation of current information and archives of space activity to compare with your own dream journal.

Contact me if you’d like to get on touch with Annani.

This show, episode number 327, was recorded during a live broadcast on September 6, 2025 at KSQD.org, community radio of Santa Cruz.

Intro and outro music by Mood Science. Ambient music new every week by Rick Kleffel. Archived music can be found at Pandemiad.com. Many thanks to Rick for also engineering the show and to Tony Russomano for answering the phones.

The Santa Cruz Festival of Dreams will be at the Museum of Art and History October 10-12, 2025! Early bird discount available now at FestivalofDreams.net Follow us at our FB group page HERE or follow #KeepSantaCruzDreaming on FB and IG.

SHARE A DREAM FOR THE SHOW or a question or enquire about being a guest on the podcast by emailing Katherine Bell at [email protected]. Follow on FB, IG, LI, & YT @ExperientialDreamwork #thedreamjournal. To learn more or to inquire about exploring your own dreams go to ExperientialDreamwork.com.

The Dream Journal aims to:

A dream can be meaningful even if you don’t know what it means.

The Dream Journal is produced at and airs on KSQD Santa Cruz, 90.7 FM. Catch it streaming LIVE at KSQD.org 10-11am Pacific Time on Saturdays. Call or text with your dreams or questions at 831-900-5773 or email at [email protected]. Podcasts are available on all major podcast platforms the Monday following the live show. The complete KSQD Dream Journal podcast page can be found at ksqd.org/the-dream-journal/.

Closed captioning is available on the YouTube version of this podcast and an automatically generated transcript is available at Apple Podcasts.

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