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He woke the next morning, and it was still the same universe; it had not been a nightmare and time had not gone backward. It had all still happened.
The Player of Games
Iain M. Banks
The difference between the free ascent and countless efforts involved a three-inch shift in the position of the hips.
The Rock Warrior's Way
Arno Ilgner
They were seeking to understand not whether the eye played tricks on the mind, but if the mind also played tricks on the eye. Or, as they put it, how “intense mental activity hinders perception.” They found that it wasn’t just emotional arousal that altered the size of the pupil: Mental effort had the same effect. There was, quite possibly, as they put it, “an antagonism between thinking and perceiving.”
The Undoing Project
Michael Lewis
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