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Wonder Cabinet

In Your Dreams

Wonder Cabinet

Wonder Cabinet Productions

Society & Culture, Wonder, Philosophy, Ttbook, Knowledge, Interview

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

What’s the last dream you remember having? Some of us dream every night. But we’re in too much of a hurry to remember our dreams or think about them the next day. Others of us are dream-deprived. What if we embrace our dreams — and our night selves — as a way to understand ourselves better, to connect to each other, even to lead a better life?

Original Air Date: February 24, 2024

Interviews In This Hour:
The perils of a 'wake-centric' worldThe lives we live inside our dreamsA dreaming mind, illustratedEmbracing your night self

Guests:
Rubin Naiman, Kelly Bulkeley, Roz Chast, Annabel Abbs-Streets


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0:00.0

Hey friends, it's Anne.

0:09.0

What's the last dream you remember having?

0:12.0

And what did you do with it after you woke up?

0:15.0

Write it down? Share it with someone?

0:18.0

Most of our dreams evaporate so quickly in the morning that they don't

0:22.3

actually figure all that much in our waking lives. Plus, millions of us are actually dream-deprived.

0:29.3

We're not dreaming enough. Today, onto the best of our knowledge, why dream life matters,

0:36.4

and how to use it to understand yourself better,

0:39.7

connect with others, even expand your consciousness, this hour in your dreams.

0:51.2

From WPR.

1:03.3

Thank you. from WPR. It's to the best of our knowledge. I'm And Strange Champs.

1:05.0

Dreams come and go much of the night while we're asleep.

1:09.0

Those strange flickering scenes of places that

1:12.5

don't exist and things that haven't happened. Most of them disappear as soon as we wake up,

1:19.0

except for the big dreams. A big dream, we all have them, is a dream that you'll never forget.

1:28.2

And I had this dream some years ago a few weeks after my father passed away.

1:34.8

This is psychologist and sleep expert Ruben Neiman.

1:38.0

He's a specialist in dreams.

1:56.0

Okay, he has a trench coat. I thought he was a Russian spy and he wanted to kill me.

2:00.0

Running, running, it was a nightmare. I was scared to kill me. Running, running. It was a nightmare.

2:01.6

I was scared to death.

2:02.6

I end up running into a men's room.

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