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I remember learning riding a bicycle in a dream. Woke up the next day and suddenly I could ride a bicycle, despite months of struggle without success. So, I guess sometimes it takes one especially lucid dream to solve an initially "unsolvable" problem.

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For how cool it sounds, it seems more like you have managed to overcome the struggle than learning to ride a bike, as in you jumped on the bike for the first time in your life, in your dream, and the day after you could ride a bike in real life.

That's what I basically meant - sometimes one dream is enough to move on. Not only rational problems are being solved inside the brain while asleep. I believe that dreaming of riding a bike like it was effortless made me believe that it's actually effortless and voila, it worked.

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