In Your Dreams

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Wisconsin Public Radio

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🗓️ 24 February 2024

⏱️ 52 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:

Why dream life matters — The lives we live inside our dreams — A dreaming mind, illustrated — Embracing 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
0:27.7	deprived. We're not dreaming enough. Today, onto the best of our knowledge, why dream life
0:35.2	matters, and how to use it to understand yourself better,
0:39.6	connect with others, even expand your consciousness, this hour in your dreams. Wisconsin Public Radio It's to the best of our knowledge. I'm Anne Strange Amps.
1:09.0	Dreams come and go much of the night while we're asleep.
1:12.6	Those strange, flickering scenes of places that don't exist and things that haven't happened.
1:18.6	Most of them disappear as soon as we wake up, except for the big dreams.
1:26.6	A big dream, we all have them, is a dream that you'll never forget. for the big dreams.
1:29.2	A big dream, we all have them,
1:31.0	is a dream that you'll never forget.
1:33.3	And I had this dream some years ago a few weeks after my father passed away.
1:38.3	This is psychologist and sleep expert Ruben Neiman.
1:41.5	He's a specialist in dreams.
2:00.0	Okay. expert Ruben Nehman, he's a specialist in dreams. I was in an airport terminal, and I was being chased by a man in a trench coat. I thought he was a Russian spy, and he wanted to kill me.
2:02.6	Running, running, it was a nightmare.
2:04.6	I was scared to death.
2:05.6	I end up running into a men's room.
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