What Dreams Are Made Of (Technologies that reveal the inner workings of the brain are beginning to tell the sleeping mind’s secrets).
Details the evolution of dream research and discusses the many ways that scientists think about dreaming. Something surprising I learned from this story: “We know that 60 to 70 percent of people who go through a depression will recover without treatment,” says Cartwright — chair of the department of behavioral science at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, (”who has studied dreams for most of her 83 years”).
This is a statistic that you will not hear on the pharmaceuticals’ ads proliferating on TV commercials etc.
The story includes Paul McCartney, Mary Shelley, Jack Nicklaus and Saddam Hussein as well-known persons who all made improbable discoveries while dreaming. This website has a list of twelve others.
Speaking of dreams, from Teddy Wayne’s Feedback from James Joyce’s submission of Ulysses to his creative-writing workshop:
“History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.” So true.
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Great opening hook, but do you need 96-point Garamond for the S? Kind of feels like you’re padding the page count.
I can’t copy them all; go read the rest.
New podcast from Evil Genius Chronicles sounds promising.