retain enough of a purchase on reality?

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Does "purchase" here mean "firm contact"?
Besides, does "be stolen from our beds" mean "become insensible to reality"?

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The experience of dreaming is instructive here. Each night, we lie down to sleep, only to be stolen from our beds and plunged into a realm where our personal histories and the laws of nature no longer apply. Generally, we do not retain enough of a purchase on reality to even notice that anything out of the ordinary has happened.

-Sam Harris

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@oristarA,

Yes Ori and yes, I'd say so

Interesting to note in old age, remember hardly any, doubtless a clue to their purpose. Freud maintained that they represent our concerns reduced to symbolic form so they won't wake us

Today of course Freud and everything else from the 20th century is out the door, they're now considered a random effect with no "purpose" whatever. Why not OP on the subject

retain enough of a purchase on reality?

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